Two zero-day flaws in the form of a denial of service (DoS) issue in .NET and an elevation of privilege (EoP) issue in SQL Server top the agenda for security teams in Microsoft’s latest monthly Patch ...

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Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

Microsoft complements its relational database engine, SQL Server, with several add-on services that manage different aspects of enterprise business intelligence and information processing such as data ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. The secret to the continuing availability of security patches ...

Microsoft is killing DES encryption on Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 very soon and is recommending users to move to AES. This week, Microsoft updated the webpages that track the features ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday for April 2024 covers 155 vulnerabilities, three of which are classified as critical. The update includes 145 classified as “important severity”. Rapid7 noted that ...

General Microsoft users are probably aware that January marks the end of Windows 7. Any user that still uses this OS is now left unprotected. Once official support runs out, users will have to do one ...