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An anti-trust complaint to the European Union, about Microsoft's pricing of its cloud services in the political bloc, has had an effect, with the US company changing its licensing deals and making it easier for cloud rivals to compete.

Specialist technology secondary fund SecondQuarter Ventures has appointed Sam Kroonenburg as a venture partner.

The government of Costa Rica has declared a state of emergency after a number of state agencies, including the finance ministry, were hit by the Windows ransomware strain known as Conti.

Microsoft has issued patches for 73 CVEs, including two zero-day flaws one of which has been exploited in the wild, as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday release.

Unified communications vendor Avaya has expanded its global partnership with Microsoft by pairing the Avaya OneCloud portfolio with Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft, the company that produces Windows which is the target of practically every ransomware attack, is now offering paid products to fight those very ransomware attacks.

Backup and data management vendor Veeam Software has appointed John Jester to the role of chief revenue officer.

Apple, Google and Microsoft have backed a passwordless sign-in standard created by the Fast Identity Online [FIDO] Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium.

A senior cyber security researcher at the Cybersecurity Centre for Security Studies run by ETH Zurich says while a Microsoft report on cyber operations during the Russia-Ukraine war offers some useful details it says little about the impact of these operations.

Nine vulnerabilities in Microsoft products were among the top 15 routinely exploited flaws in 2021 listed by government security agencies in the Five Eyes countries.

Microsoft has issued a long write-up about flaws that could lead to escalation of privilege on Linux systems, which it has collectively called Nimbuspwn, but failed to mention that none of these flaws can be exploited remotely.

COMPANY NEWS: Ribbon, a global provider of real time communications software and IP optical networking solutions to service providers, enterprises, and critical infrastructure sectors, today announced that Ribbon is an ecosystem partner supporting Microsoft’s new Operator Connect Accelerator for Microsoft Teams. Ribbon is extending its multi-tenant, software as a service (SaaS) solution, Ribbon Connect for Operator Connect, to support service provider deployments of Operator Connect.

Mental health service Bethesda Health Care has announced its new mental health clinic in the Perth suburb of Cockburn, Western Australia, will be the first medical facility in Australia to install Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare as its Patient Administration System (PAS), with Velrada – Microsoft’s growth partner of the year – as its implementation partner.

Google's bid to position itself as some kind of competitor to Microsoft based on its security credentials has been dealt a bad blow, with the company reporting the third zero-day in its browser Chrome just before the long Easter weekend.

Patching of vulnerabilities is the security industry's equivalent of thoughts and prayers, a prominent American security expert has said during a debate on the topic "Patching is useless" at a recent online conference named Hack At The Harbor.

Fresh questions have arisedn about one of the remotely exploitable flaws in Microsoft's products which was revealed during the company's monthly Patch Tuesday announcement.

Customer experience platform provider Nice has Ben Eldridge to the role of channel sales manager.

Microsoft has issued patches for 117 CVEs in its April Patch Tuesday release, with nine rated critical and 108 as important, the most it has ever released for a single month since September 2020. Included among these were two zero-day vulnerabilities, one of which was exploited in the wild and reported to Microsoft by the NSA.

Microsoft is introducing a safety feature known as Smart App Control in Windows 11 that will prevent users from running malicious applications by blocking untrusted or unsigned applications.

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