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At Inspire, and on its official Azure blog, Microsoft says Azure SQL Data Warehouse will scale up the platform. The company says it is bumping the package to meet increasing demands of customers. SQL Data Warehouse customers need more data processing capabilities. Microsoft is responding by making relevant changes to its massive parallel processing (MPP) cloud relational database. The company understand customers now need “petabyte scale” analysis. To deal with the 1,000 TB scale, Data Warehouse will be upscaled to have computing power to 18,000 DWU (Data Warehouse Units)....

In his report, Ormandy explains that this new vulnerability would allow hackers to take control of the MsMpEng engine’s emulator and achieve all kinds of wrongdoing. The MsMpEng is the anti-malware portion of Windows Defender. For example, hackers would have been able to execute remote code when the Windows Defender would scan an executable sent by email. According to Ormandy, the MsMpEng includes “a full system x86 emulator that is used to execute any untrusted files that look like PE executables....

Michel Gaschet, a researcher with NIC.gp disclosed the problem during an interview with ZDNet. He says Microsoft subdomains are frequent. While he has reported the problematic sites to Microsoft, he says the company has either ignored him or fixed sites without response. However, only around 10% of the Microsoft subdomains have been fixed, Gaschet says. In total, the researcher has disclosed information on numerous subdomain vulnerabilities, including: 21 msn.com subdomains 142 misconfigured microsoft....

The new series performs across a full range of memory bandwidth, integer, floating points, and I/O workloads. Server hardware manufacturers have thrown their weight behind the processors. HPE, Dell, Gigabyte, Asus, Lenovo, Inventec, Supermicro, Sugon, Tyan, and Wistron are currently supporting AMD. Microsoft says it is supporting the EPYC 7000 range as part of a commitment to give customers the best possible performance: “We’ve worked to make Microsoft Azure a powerful enterprise grade cloud platform, that helps guide the success of our customers, no matter their size or geography,” said Girish Bablani, corporate vice president, Azure Compute, Microsoft Corp....

Yesterday, Microsoft posted a placeholder webpage (microsoft.com/event). All that the page says is “Watch Live to See What’s Next” alongside a watercolor Windows wallpaper with confirmation of the date (October 12 at 10 a.m. ET). That date is interesting. Firstly, it is the same day that Microsoft opens its Ignite 2022 conference. Perhaps the company is tying in new Surface hardware to announcements at Ignite. If not, one is like to steal the thunder from the other....

“This unique C2 infrastructure can be leveraged by sophisticated threat actors to avoid detection by EDR and other network monitoring tools. Particularly in secure network environments, where Microsoft Teams might be one of a handful of allowed, trusted hosts and programs, this attack chain can be particularly devastating,” says Raunch. “Two additional vulnerabilities discovered in Microsoft Teams, a lack of permission enforcement and attachment spoofing, allow for the GIFShell stager to be convincingly dropped and executed on the victim’s machine, completing the attack chain from victim compromise to covert communications....

Azure Sentinel is one of the new tools. As the name suggests, it works with Azure to provide “cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool.” Sentinel works by gathering huge quantities of data from cloud-based services, such as Office 365 third-party offerings. According to Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President of Cybersecurity for Microsoft, AI powers Sentinel and can work with inner-organizational machine learning tools to reduce “alert fatigue”. As is becoming the norm for Microsoft, Sentinel supports open standard like the Common Event Format (CEF)....

This report seems to have some truth and has been backed by Alex Ionescu, who says he is a “Windows Internals Expert, Security Ninja, and Embedded ARM Kernel Guru.” In a tweet, Ionescu showed EMET built into a Windows 10 Fall Creators Update kernel. What is interesting about this is that two Microsoft Research security experts liked the tweet. This suggests there is no smoke without fire. Microsoft uses EMET for application and system protection in Windows....

With its latest Microsoft To-Do app on Mac, the company has brought the Planner feature to the app. This integration has been available on To-Do on other platforms for some time. Office 365 Planner makes it easier for businesses to manage teamwork operations, allowing the creation of team-wide email notifications, project due dates, and visual dashboards. When Microsoft launched Planner in 2016, the company said it simplified workflow management. The Trello competitor is ideal as a Microsoft To-Do integration and can now be accessed on To-Do on Mac....

The relationship began in April of last year when the Redmond giant bought its first ten million strands. That number will now double and should help to build on previous successes. One of those came in July of 2016 when Microsoft and the University of Washington stored 200 megabytes of data on DNA. Microsoft decoded and encoded it with complete accuracy, making it a viable but expensive alternative. “We are delighted to see the positive response and growing excitement over DNA as a solution to our world’s growing digital storage dilemma,” said Emily M....

The most important part of Microsoft Translator is of course its language capabilities. On that front, Microsoft has improved the experience with the update to version 3.0.3. Japanese and Hindi transliteration is now supported in the app. Furthermore, Microsoft has also added offline text translation in Filipino. Aside from bolstering language capabilities, the company has also made some UI tweaks to Translator. Microsoft has also performed several bug fixes across known issues, such as the Safari extension language selection....

Launched two years ago as Microsoft Ventures, we wrote at the time how the branding could cause some confusion. That’s because Ventures was originally the name of the company’s startup accelerator. With the launch of Microsoft Ventures, the startup accelerator became aptly titled, Microsoft Scaleup. However, it seems people didn’t get the memo and are still confused by the Ventures branding. Ok, we can’t see how companies are getting confused by this....

In a blog post this week, Microsoft said tests are underway for multiple document editing in split-screen on iPadOS: “Hi Office Insiders! I’m Sammy Chiu from the Office team. I’m excited to share that you can now open multiple documents in Word and PowerPoint on iOS.” It is worth noting this is not the same split view tool that is currently available in Microsoft Word. That tool allows users to separate a document for more concise editing....

Among the changes are new buildings, maps, animals, and items. For example, gamers on Minecraft Pocket and Windows 10 can now explore the Woodland Mansion. Other new editions include new blocks (such as concrete), Dyable Beds, Llamas, and enchantments like Frostwalking and Mending. Minecraft is also talking up new Add-Ons, such as the Skyrim Mash-Up Pack. The big news about the Discovery Update is that it introduces a Marketplace. You may remember Microsoft reported this feature back in April....

The patent describes a hinge with a thermal element inside. On top of it sits an OLED display that folds in both directions. When the hinge is adjusted, the heating kicks in, allegedly removing the semi-permanent crease. To detect when the display is folded, the hinge will also have sensors embedded. These will also let the hinge automatically bend in the opposite direction while heating, counteracting the crease further....

Among other things, the browser would offer security features like a VPN and secure cloud storage. The idea is to appeal to customers who require a little extra while opening another revenue stream. “We were founded on the belief that the internet should be open and accessible to all. A high-performing, free and private-by-default Firefox browser will continue to be central to our core service offerings,” said Beard. “We also recognize that there are consumers who want access to premium offerings, and we can serve those users too without compromising the development and reach of the existing products and services that Firefox users know and love....

Specifically, this IE flaw is located in the scripting engine of the browsers. Microsoft has the vulnerability has already been exploited in the wild. Named CVE-2019-1429, Microsoft describes the big as a remote execution flaw caused by “the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer.” As this is a scripting bug, it extends beyond Internet Explorer and also into Office apps to help them display web content....

In this case, up-to-date means installing the latest security updates. Microsoft has patched its older platforms to protect against BlueKeep, but many users have not updated. BlueKeep is a dangerous vulnerability because it can be executed by bad actors remotely. It is located in Remote Desktop Services on older Windows legacy builds such as Windows 7, Windows XP, AND Server 2003 and 2008. “This [bug] would have the potential of a global WannaCry-level event,” said Chris Goettl, director of product management for security at Ivanti, during Patch Tuesday....

However, he later left Facebook after a controversy surrounding his contributions to an anti-Hillary Clinton campaign. Following a negative fallout, Luckey stepped down to pursue other projects. It now appears Luckey has put the inventor hat on one more, and it aligns somewhat with his political stance. The VR pioneer is working on a tech that sources say would use infrared cameras and sensors to monitor border crossings. In essence, it could be a high-tech, cheaper solution to Trump’s wall....

This information comes from Petri’s Brad Sams, who spoke with several sources at the companies in question and tested the theory for himself. At least some OEM devices are shipping with Windows 10 1803. The issue, according to sources, is that there wasn’t enough time to test the hardware of these devices with 1803. They were always planned to line up with Microsoft’s release schedule, shipping with 1809, the October 2018 update....