Daily Compliance News: May 21, 2025, The I Want You Back Edition
Shout Outs and Rants: Episode 153, The CW 25 Edition
Episode 271 -- Deep Dive into Microsoft's OFAC Settlement for $3 Million
Everything Dynamic Everywhere: Managing a More Collaborative Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 and the Age of Automation
Compliance Into The Weeds - Antitrust Issues in Microsoft Acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Everything Compliance - Episode 93 - The Activision Blizzard Edition
Microsoft Week on Innovation in Compliance -Legal Compliance for The Future with Alan Gibson
Keeping Up with M365 Software Updates
Efficiently and Defensibly Addressing Microsoft Teams Data
M365 in 5 – Part 7: Teams Audio/Video (A/V) Conferencing
M365 in 5 – Part 6: Teams Channels – The virtual collaboration workspace
M365 in 5 – Part 5: Teams Chats – Modern communications
M365 in 5 – Part 4: Teams – An introduction to collaboration
M365 in 5 – Part 3: OneDrive for Business – Protected personal collaboration
M365 in 5 – Part 2: SharePoint Online – The new file-share environment
M365 in 5 – Part 1: Exchange Online – Not just a mailbox
Episode 104 -- A Deep Dive into the Microsoft FCPA Settlement
This Week in FCPA-Episode 164, week ending July 26, 2019 – the Microsoft and Facebook settle edition
Is the Patent Litigation Boom Coming to an End?
Microsoft has confirmed that vulnerabilities in its on-premises SharePoint Server installations, a network spoofing vulnerability (CVE-202549706), and a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-49704) are being actively...more
On July 20, 2025, Microsoft and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued urgent warnings about new, actively exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Server. These vulnerabilities, known as...more
On October 22, 2024, Microsoft issued a threat trend research report entitled “US Healthcare at risk: Strengthening resilience against ransomware attacks.” In it, Microsoft declares that ransomware attacks against the...more
We previously reported on the concerning mash-up of worldwide cybercriminals, known as Scattered Spider, working together to attack victims. New reports from Microsoft and others indicate that in the second quarter of...more
CYBERSECURITY - CISA Recommends Following Microsoft’s Mitigation for Zero Day Exploits - Microsoft recently issued mitigation steps for vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited by threat actors. Microsoft...more
Microsoft recently issued mitigation steps for vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited by threat actors. Microsoft stated that it is aware that two vulnerabilities are being actively exploited to access users’...more
CYBERSECURITY - November's "Patch Tuesday" Includes 55 Patches - Staying current with Microsoft’s monthly patches is challenging, yet critical for one’s cybersecurity program. This week, Microsoft’s November Patch...more
In a blog post entitled “New activity from Russian actor Nobelium,” Microsoft’s V.P. of Customer Security & Trust Tom Burt discussed a recent alert issued by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) regarding the...more
CYBERSECURITY - Apple + Microsoft Release Patches for Identified Vulnerabilities - This week, both Apple and Microsoft issued patches to fix serious zeroday vulnerabilities that should be applied as soon as possible. That...more
If you are an organization that uses Microsoft Office 365 as your email platform, be on the lookout for a new tricky phishing attack recently used by cyber criminals. ...more
CYBERSECURITY - Microsoft Issues Emergency Software Update for PrintNightmare Zero Day Vulnerability - Following the release of a U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (US-CERT) Coordination Center...more
Following the release of a U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (US-CERT) Coordination Center VulNote “for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Print spooler services” on June 30,...more
Another fall-out from the SolarWinds incident has surfaced prompting Microsoft to issue a notice to affected customers that an attacker gained access to one of its customer service agents to launch hacking attacks against...more
CYBERSECURITY - Microsoft Releases Additional Resources for Exchange Flaws and CISA Issues Alert - As we alerted our readers last week, Microsoft announced that its Exchange email servers have been compromised, which is...more
As we alerted our readers last week, Microsoft announced that its Exchange email servers have been compromised, which is estimated to affect at least 30,000 companies based in the United States....more
I continue to be amazed in my day-to-day virtual conversations by how many people are unaware of one of the most devastating compromises ever to happen—the recent compromise of Microsoft’s Exchange versions 2013-2019....more
A new study by Check Point Research shows that cyber criminals are using well-known brands to lure victims into clicking on nefarious links, providing personal information or credentials, or getting users to transfer money....more
Department of Homeland Security Warns of Cyber-Attacks by Iran - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a grave warning to U.S. businesses and critical infrastructure operators on January 6, 2020, alerting the...more
After the killing of Qassem Soleimani on January 3, 2020, by the U.S. government, the cybersecurity news industry has been abuzz about whether Iran will engage in cyber terrorism, and if so, to what degree, as part of its...more
Security researchers Intezer and IBM X-Force have identified a new ransomware that is seriously vicious. It’s PureLocker—named because it is programmed in PureBasic language, which is apparently unusual. ...more
The Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance just released its "2018 Cyber Incident & Breach Trends Report," which says “2018–Some Better, Some Worse, All Bad.” That’s our experience, too. Here are the highlights from the...more
Hackers are targeting U.S. government networks, according to U.S. Cyber Command, which says there is a vulnerability of CVE-2017-1174, which is a two year old flaw in Microsoft Outlook that is being used by attackers to...more
We all learned the hard way how important patching vulnerabilities are when a major data breach occurred during 2017 that exposed the personal information of 80 percent of U.S. adults that was reportedly avoidable with a...more
Security researchers this week have found a new vulnerability that affects Wi-Fi Protected Access II, also known as WPA2, which is the security protocol used by many wireless networks. The vulnerability, Key Reinstallation...more