Microsoft announced Friday that Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) will no longer be available in Windows Server releases after 2025. Windows Server 2025 will be the final release to include WINS ...

The same connection details work against newer SQL Server versions. The failure happens before executing any statement (during connect). Traceback (most recent call ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Hot on the heels of the NSA publishing a “high-risk of ...

Best practices include a focus on hardening user authentication and access, ensuring strong network encryption, and minimizing application attack surfaces. Cyber agencies from three countries ...

Microsoft on Thursday deployed a reworked update for a critical vulnerability in the Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) that has come under attack in the wild. CVE-2025-59287 is a remote code ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes its Defender for Endpoint enterprise endpoint security platform to incorrectly tag SQL Server software as end-of-life. According to a service ...

This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs. Microsoft released 86 patches this week with updates for Office, Windows, and SQL Server ...

A private preview of SQL Server 2025 began in November 2024, followed by a public preview in May 2025. Now, it is time for the natural next step, as the tool has received its first release candidate, ...

WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) - A cyber-espionage campaign centered on vulnerable versions of Microsoft's (MSFT.O), opens new tab server software now involves the deployment of ransomware, Microsoft ...

WASHINGTON/LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) - A sweeping cyber espionage operation targeting Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab server software compromised about 100 organizations as of the weekend, two of ...

STORY: A sweeping cyber espionage operation took aim at Microsoft’s SharePoint servers, and compromised about 100 different organizations. That’s according to two of the firms that helped uncover the ...

Microsoft has released an emergency security update to address a critical vulnerability in its on-premises SharePoint Server software, following a wave of cyberattacks over the weekend. The attacks, ...