Sebastian Klovig Skelton writes in “Microsoft hides key data flow information in plain sight” for computerweekly.com All in all, an analysis of Microsoft’s distributed documentation – conducted by independent security consultant Owen Sayers and shared with Computer Weekly – suggests that Microsoft personnel or contractors can remotely access the data from 105 different countries, using 148 different sub-processors. ...
Alexander Rudolph writes in »Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty« for digitaljournal.com Does this affect the federal government and military? Yes. It appears that it does not matter if the target is an individual, organization, or government. As long as the legal request is considered valid in the United States, the target or location of the data does not matter. ...
Thio Joe has released a new YouTube video: “Secrets of Windows Notepad”. In it he presents some lesser-known features of Microsoft’s Notepad. For example, Notepad automatically inserts the date and time when a document that begins with .log is opened. I hadn’t known about most of these features before. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...
Given the numerous security issues Microsoft has faced, this at least points to an improvement in the situation. However, Kathleen Hogan will have to be held to these statements over the coming year. Tom Warren writes in ‘Every Microsoft employee is now being judged on their security work’ for theverge.com Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft’s chief people officer, has outlined what the company expects of employees in an internal memo obtained by The Verge. “Everyone at Microsoft will have security as a Core Priority,” says Hogan. “When faced with a tradeoff, the answer is clear and simple: security above all else.” ...
Kevin Beaumont on Mastodon: lol, a way to bypass the Microsoft account requirement in Windows 11 - type username [email protected], any password, and it bumps you to local account creation. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.