 
        Now in its twenty-sixth year, Black Hat USA takes place August 5 to 10, 2023, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada, bringing together security professionals for the latest in information security research, development, and trends. Microsoft Security is pleased to have a presence at Black Hat, with[…]
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        As technology drives unprecedented transformation in financial services, operational resilience has become an increasing area of focus for financial institutions, regulators, and technology providers alike. Institutions are using third-party service providers to handle a broad range of services, including critical operations. This delivers tremendous benefits in innovation, flexibility,[…]
Read MoreIn July, we’ve delivered multiple improvements across Azure DevOps services. You can now dismiss dependency scanning alerts in Advanced Security that you believe to be a false positive or acceptable risk. In Azure Repos, we changed the default behavior to remove “Edit policies” permission when creating a new branch. […]
Read MoreSpeech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026. Update your code that uses Speech-to-text REST API. We recently updated the Speech-to-text REST API to version 3.1. Version 3.1 builds on the capabilities of the previous version and adds new features including language identification and multi-speaker diarization. With[…]
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        In cloud environments, cryptojacking – a type of cyberattack that uses computing power to mine cryptocurrency – takes the form of cloud compute resource abuse, which involves a threat actor compromising legitimate tenants. Cloud compute resource abuse could result in financial loss to targeted organizations due to the[…]
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