Researchers detail a spam campaign using 21K hijacked abandoned domains and subdomains from brands like eBay, MSN, and VMware to send ~5M malicious emails daily
A massive ad fraud campaign named “SubdoMailing” is using over 8,000 legitimate internet domains and 13,000 subdomains to send …
Microsoft says some users may be experiencing “multiple issues” with Microsoft Teams, and that it is applying “mitigations across the affected infrastructure”
Title: Some users may experience multiple issues with their Microsoft … Pranav Dixit / Business Today : Microsoft Teams suffers global outage, slowly recovers Tobias Mann / The Register : Snow day in ...
Netflix names Microsoft as its “global advertising technology and sales partner” for its upcoming ad-supported streaming tier, rumored to arrive later in 2022
Morning War & Peaceniks!! Welcome to our BREAKING NEWS Q&A edition! Evann Gastaldo / Newser : Netflix Has More News on Ad-Supported Tier Rik Henderson / Pocket-lint : Netflix's ad-supported tier will...
Slack debuts Connect, letting users DM any Slack user regardless of organization, and has updated its opt-in invite flow after feedback that it could be abused
and it's gonna be fascinating to see how people use it https://www.protocol.com/... Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : NEW: Slack admits it “made a mistake” launching a new feature that allo...
DHS and the FBI are investigating a robocall and text campaign warning US voters to “stay safe and stay home”
Despite scattered reports … New York Times : Despite Fears of Violence, Election Day Proceeds Smoothly as Millions Line Up to Vote Kate Cox / Ars Technica : “Stay Home” robocalls to voters prompt FBI,...
MSN's AI editor confused a mixed-race member of the band Little Mix with another and staff were told to delete articles about the mix-up should the AI find them
Firm's plan to replace editors with AI backfires after wrong image of musician is published — Microsoft's decision …
Microsoft lays off editorial staff at its News and MSN divisions, reportedly affecting around 50 US and 27 UK jobs, as it increases use of AI for news curation
Microsoft News and MSN is increasingly being run by robots — Microsoft is laying off dozens of journalists and editorial workers …
Microsoft rebrands Bing Ads as Microsoft Advertising, says it will introduce more advertising products with built-in AI over the next year
The evolution of Microsoft Advertising Rebecca Stewart / The Drum : Bing Ads rebrands to Microsoft Advertising Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost : Bing Ads Becomes ‘Microsoft Advertising,’ Rolls Out New Pro...
Source: Outlook, MSN, and Hotmail were affected in breach; Microsoft now says email content was also exposed for ~6% of users whose email accounts were hacked
Hackers abused a Microsoft customer support portal that allowed them to read the emails of any non-corporate account.
Microsoft News launches on Android and iOS as a rebranded MSN app, also powers news on Windows 10, Skype, Xbox, and Outlook.com
Microsoft has been in the news business for more than 23 years. When we launched MSN in 1995, the news industry was just beginning to provide content online.