Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Microsoft Corp. announced today that it is expanding its bug bounty program with a new policy that brings all of its online ...

Microsoft announced on Monday that it will soon block mobile devices running outdated email software from accessing Exchange ...

All critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft, third-party, and open source code are eligible for rewards if they impact Microsoft services.

The company’s new approach is that anything touching Microsoft services is eligible for a bug bounty, regardless of its ...

Microsoft now pays security researchers for finding critical vulnerabilities in any of its online services, regardless of whether the code was written by Microsoft or a third party.

A number of cloud-based Microsoft products are having issues right now, apparently as a result of an Azure Active Directory issue. Over the last hour or so many users have been unable to access ...

Did you have trouble accessing Microsoft 365 earlier today? You weren't alone. The site was down for thousands of people, according to outage tracker DownDetector. At the peak at around 9 AM ET, more ...

Earlier this month, a group known as Anonymous Sudan took credit for a service outage that disrupted access to Outlook, OneDrive and a handful of other Microsoft online services. After initially ...

Just over a week ago, I wrote a piece about what appeared to be a global failure of Microsoft services, asking what enterprises should do when the infrastructure they rely on fails. At that point, the ...

In brief: Microsoft has updated its licensing agreements to ban cryptomining from its online services. Any customers wishing to continue mining crypto on a Microsoft-hosted service will first need ...

Microsoft today is introducing its own personalized news reading experience called Microsoft Start, available as both a website and mobile app, in addition to being integrated with other Microsoft ...