Microsoft is stepping up security for users of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint by changing a key setting, switching the default from optional automatic malware fixes to fully automatic remediation.

Microsoft has released a new version of the Sysinternals package and updated the Sysmon utility with the ability to detect Process Herpaderping and Process Hollowing attacks.

Europol and the European Commission have launched a new decryption platform that will help boost Europol’s ability to gain access to information stored in encrypted media collected during criminal investigations.

Microsoft's GitHub plans to stop accepting account passwords as a way to authenticate Git operations, starting August 13, 2021, following a test period without passwords two-weeks earlier.

Google has announced the launch of a knowledge base called XS-Leaks to help web browser developers and security engineers prepare defense mechanisms against rising side-channel threats.

The OpenSSF announced at the Black Hat Europe conference the availability of an open-source tool designed for evaluating the ability of static analysis security testing (SAST) products to detect vulnerabilities.

Microsoft subsidiary GitHub will warn programmers about vulnerable dependencies at every pull request, the source code sharing hub announced at its GitHub Universe conference Tuesday.

Microsoft announced the launch of a new offering for its mission-critical Azure Government cloud targeted at government customers and partners that regularly work with top-secret classified data.

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