Microsoft Outlook
4 Security Loopholes Have Been Found in Microsoft Office Apps Including Excel, Word
Sourced from Wikimedia Check Point Research (CPR) urges Windows users to update their software, after discovering four security vulnerabilities that affect products in the Microsoft Office suite, including Excel and Office online. The loopholes were found in sections of legacy code, the vulnerabilities could have granted an attacker the ability to execute code on targets via malicious Office documents, such as Word, Excel and Outlook. Malicious code could have been delivered via Word documents (.DOCX) , Outlook Email (.EML) and most office file formats. Vulnerabilities are the result of parsing mistakes made in legacy code, leading CPR to believe security flaws have existed for years CPR responsibly disclosed to Microsoft, who then issued fixes: CVE-2021-31174, CVE-2021-31178, CVE-2021-311...
Microsoft Outlook Down Worldwide
Sourced from Wikimedia Microsoft’s Outlook has suffered a global outage impacting web, desktop, and mobile email services. According to The Verge, the disruption began at 2AM ET and ‘users are currently unable to access their email, and Outlook.com is failing to load’. Microsoft has since confirmed the outage, saying that it is currently investigating the issue. “We’ve received reports of users experiencing issues accessing their Exchange Online accounts via Outlook on the Web,” reads an official tweet. “We’ve collected additional data from the affected infrastructures to determine impact to our Exchange online protocols.” /* custom css */ .tdi_3_551.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_551.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } “Additionally, we’ve identified this issue to be affectin...
Microsoft 365 Suffers Worldwide Outage
Microsoft has confirmed that a number of its cloud services – including Teams, Outlook, and Office 365 – suffered an outage. “We’re investigating an issue affecting access to multiple Microsoft 365 services. We’re working to identify the full impact and will provide more information shortly,” reads an official tweet. The tech company revealed that the outage could have been caused by a recent update – which it has now reverted. “We’ve identified a recent change that appears to be the source of the issue. We’re rolling back the change to mitigate impact.” /* custom css */ .tdi_3_852.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_852.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } “We have confirmed via our monitoring that the majority of services have recovered for most customers,” reports Micro...
