Microsoft Removes Password Management from Authenticator App Starting August 2025

Microsoft has said that it's ending support for passwords in its Authenticator app starting August 1, 2025. Microsoft's move is part of a much larger shift away from traditional password-based logins. The company said the changes are also meant to streamline autofill within its two-factor...

Microsoft Has Busy April Patch Tuesday with Zero-Days, Exchange Fixes

Microsoft had its hands full Tuesday snuffing out five zero-day vulnerabilities, a flaw under active attack and applying more patches to its problem-plagued Microsoft Exchange Server software. In all, Microsoft released patches for 110 security holes, 19 classified critical in severity and 88...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — Nov. 2019: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

By Jon Munshaw. Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday discloses 75 vulnerabilities, 13 of which are considered "critical," with the rest being deemed "important." This month’s security...

Microsoft DirectWrite AFDKO - Multiple Bugs in OpenType Font Handling Related to the _post_ Table

Microsoft DirectWrite AFDKO - Multiple Bugs in OpenType Font Handling Related to the post Table -----===== Background =====----- AFDKO Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType is a set of tools for examining, modifying and building fonts. The core part of this toolset is a font handling library...

Microsoft DirectWrite / AFDKO - Multiple Bugs in OpenType Font Handling Related to the "post" Table

-----===== Background =====----- AFDKO Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType is a set of tools for examining, modifying and building fonts. The core part of this toolset is a font handling library written in C, which provides interfaces for reading and writing Type 1, OpenType, TrueType to some...