Microsoft 365
Microsoft gives US students a free year of Microsoft 365 Personal
Microsoft announced that starting this Thursday, all college students in the United States can get a free year of Microsoft 365 Personal. For everyone else, a yearly Microsoft 365 Personal subscription costs $99.99. It provides ransomware protection for photos and files stored on OneDrive, 1 TB of secure cloud storage, and can be used on up to […]
Amazon disrupts Russian APT29 hackers targeting Microsoft 365
Researchers have disrupted an operation attributed to the Russian state-sponsored threat group Midnight Blizzard, which sought access to Microsoft 365 accounts and data. Also known as APT29, the hacker group compromised websites in a watering hole campaign to redirect selected targets “to malicious infrastructure designed to trick users into authorizing attacker-controlled devices through Microsoft’s device code […]
Microsoft Word will save your files to the cloud by default
Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default. The company is currently testing this new feature with the help of Microsoft 365 Insiders in the Beta Channel, who will get it after upgrading to Word for Windows Version 2509 (Build 19221.20000) or later, which was released […]
Microsoft investigates outage impacting Copilot, Office.com
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing issue preventing users across North America from accessing Office.com and the company’s Copilot AI-powered assistant. According to user reports on DownDetector, this incident began impacting Microsoft’s services almost two hours ago and is currently triggering server connection problems and causing issues when trying to log into accounts. “Impact is specific to […]
Microsoft Teams to protect against malicious URLs, dangerous file types
Microsoft recently revealed that it’s enhancing protection against dangerous file types and malicious URLs in Teams chats and channels. “Microsoft Teams now blocks messages containing weaponizable file types, such as executables, in chats and channels, increasing protection against malware and other file-based attacks,” the company said in a Microsoft 365 roadmap update this week. “Microsoft Teams can […]
Microsoft 365 apps to soon block file access via FPRPC by default
Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft 365 apps for Windows will start blocking access to files via the insecure FPRPC legacy authentication protocol by default starting late August. These changes apply only to Microsoft 365 apps for Windows and will not affect Microsoft Teams users across Windows, Mac, web, iOS, or Android. “Microsoft 365 apps […]
Microsoft: Outdated Office apps lose access to voice features in January
Microsoft announced that the transcription, dictation, and read aloud features will stop working in older versions of Office 365 applications in late January 2026. Read aloud lets users hear documents and emails read back, transcription converts speech into text in real-time, and the dictation feature allows for voice-to-text input across Office applications. The company advised customers to update their Microsoft […]
Attackers exploit link-wrapping services to steal Microsoft 365 logins
A threat actor has been abusing link wrapping services from reputed technology companies to mask malicious links leading to Microsoft 365 phishing pages that collect login credentials. The attacker exploited the URL security feature from cybersecurity company Proofpoint and cloud communications firm Intermedia in campaigns from June through July. Some email security services include a […]
Microsoft to disable Excel workbook links to blocked file types
Microsoft has announced that it will start disabling external workbook links to blocked file types by default between October 2025 and July 2026. After the rollout, Excel workbooks referencing blocked file types will display a #BLOCKED error or fail to refresh, eliminating security risks associated with accessing unsupported or high-risk file types, including, but not […]
Microsoft investigates outage affecting Microsoft 365 admin center
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage blocking Microsoft 365 administrators with business or enterprise subscriptions from accessing the admin center. While the company has yet to disclose which regions are currently affected by this ongoing service degradation issue, it’s currently tracking it on its official service health status page to provide impacted organizations with access […]