Tag: Microsoft

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/06/cma_overlooks_factors_hurting_small/ Source: The Register Title: Watchdog fails to stop big vendor lock-in, say UK cloud market’s smaller players Feedly Summary: Global giants shouldn’t be allowed to make ‘committed spend’ public sector deals and make discounts we cannot match Britain’s competition regulator is facing biting criticism from local cloud providers for declining to act…

The Register: It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/05/dod_taps_scale_to_bring/ Source: The Register Title: It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning Feedly Summary: Former allies, take note The American military has signed a deal with Scale AI to give artificial intelligence, as far as we can tell, its most prominent role in the defense sector…

Slashdot: Microsoft Warns of Chinese Hackers Spying on Cloud Technology

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/05/1743246/microsoft-warns-of-chinese-hackers-spying-on-cloud-technology?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Warns of Chinese Hackers Spying on Cloud Technology Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft’s report on the Silk Typhoon hacking group emphasizes how advanced persistent threats (APTs) are increasingly targeting cloud applications and remote management tools to conduct supply-chain attacks. The activities of this group…

The Register: China’s Silk Typhoon, tied to US Treasury break-in, now hammers IT and govt targets

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/05/china_silk_typhoon_update/ Source: The Register Title: China’s Silk Typhoon, tied to US Treasury break-in, now hammers IT and govt targets Feedly Summary: They’re good at zero-day exploits, too Silk Typhoon, the Chinese government crew believed to be behind the December US Treasury intrusions, has been abusing stolen API keys and cloud credentials in ongoing…

The Register: Brits end probe into Microsoft’s $13B bankrolling of OpenAI

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/05/cma_microsoft_openai/ Source: The Register Title: Brits end probe into Microsoft’s $13B bankrolling of OpenAI Feedly Summary: Redmond doesn’t have total control over GPT maker so we lack authority, say monopoly cops The UK’s investigation into competition concerns arising from Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in OpenAI has reached a conclusion, albeit an anticlimactic one…

Hacker News: Vulnerability in partner.microsoft.com allows unauthenticated access

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Source URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49035 Source: Hacker News Title: Vulnerability in partner.microsoft.com allows unauthenticated access Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant vulnerability (CVE-2024-49035) related to improper access control in Microsoft’s Partner Center, allowing unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges over a network. The vulnerability is classified as critical due…

The Register: Microsoft teases sales agent automation for M365 and Dynamics 365

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/05/microsoft_teases_sales_agent_automation/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft teases sales agent automation for M365 and Dynamics 365 Feedly Summary: Redmond says you could ask one for a ‘list of deals … at risk of falling through’ Microsoft today announced two software agents that automate certain business functions for Dynamics 365, its enterprise resource planning and…

Microsoft Security Blog: Silk Typhoon targeting IT supply chain

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Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/05/silk-typhoon-targeting-it-supply-chain/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Silk Typhoon targeting IT supply chain Feedly Summary: Silk Typhoon is a Chinese state actor focused on espionage campaigns targeting a wide range of industries in the US and throughout the world. In recent months, Silk Typhoon has shifted to performing IT supply chain attacks to gain…

The Register: VMware patches guest-to-hypervisor escape flaws already under attack

Mar 4, 2025

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