Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

In July 2021, the UK government invited startups, businesses, and policymakers to a consultation about the most pressing competition problems in the tech industry, ahead of the launch of its new Digital Market Unit (DMU). One person familiar with the discussions says that something odd was happening behind closed doors. In private discussions entrepreneurs claimed Microsoft was behaving in a way they thought was detrimental to healthy competition; yet none dared to publicly call Microsoft out in the consultation.

A design issue in the Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover feature can cause Outlook and other third-party Exchange client applications to leak plaintext Windows domain credentials to external servers. Here’s what companies can do now to mitigate the risk.

At the Open Source Summit in Seattle, The Linux Foundation, and edX, the leading massive open online course (MOOC) provider released the 2021 Open Source Jobs Report. In this survey of 200 technical hiring managers and 750 open-source pros, the organizations found more demand for top open-source workers than ever. On top of that, 92% of managers are having trouble finding enough talent and many of them are also having fits holding on to their existing senior open-source staffers.

Black Lotus Labs revealed on Thursday that it’s discovered new malware that uses the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to avoid being detected by security tools.

Users of Azure who are running Linux virtual machines may not be aware they are have a severely vulnerable piece of management software installed on their machine by Microsoft, that can be remotely exploited in an incredibly surprising and equally stupid way.

Microsoft has released over 60 security fixes and updates resolving issues including a remote code execution (RCE) flaw in MSHTML and other critical bugs.

Changing the default apps such as browsers in Microsoft Windows 10 is not a straightforward process. While this means that users have to jump through extra hoops to set up, let’s say, Mozilla Firefox as their default browser, it also means that vendors such as Mozilla face more competition from Microsoft’s own offering, which is Edge. The bad news is that in Windows 11, this is becoming even more cumbersome for end-users and vendors as the OS requires users to change the default browser for each type of extension individually.

A deadline is quickly approaching for connecting Outlook for Windows to Office 365 and Microsoft 365 services. After November 1, 2021, older versions of Outlook will no longer be able to connect to these services. Only Outlook 2013 Service Pack 1 and later will be able to connect to Microsoft 365.

A Fortune 500 company ditched Microsoft’s security products and deployed CrowdStrike’s managed detection and response (MDR) platform after suffering a crippling ransomware attack.

Users of Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB may be vulnerable to a misconfiguration that allows hackers to download or edit data and the architecture of the database service, according to a report by cybersecurity company Wiz.