Description

AC and CJ check in on recent news from the past week including another AWS outage, MS winning company of the year, Log4J hacks, Windows news, Azure Space & Teams encryption.

What’s New in Microsoft 365

• MC303513: Anti-Malware policy - Quarantine notifications for the recipient
• MC302216: Security hardening change: Enforce policies for Trusted Documents

News

• Microsoft is Yahoo Finance’s Company of the Year 2021
• Right to repair: Microsoft offers Surface repair tools for technicians via iFixit
• Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
• Hackers start pushing malware in worldwide Log4Shell attacks
• Guidance for preventing, detecting, and hunting for CVE-2021-44228 Log4j 2 exploitation
• Windows Terminal as your Default Command Line Experience
• Microsoft redesigns Notepad for Windows 11
• End-to-end encryption for one-to-one Microsoft Teams calls now Generally Available
• New satellite connectivity and geospatial capabilities with Azure Space

Picks

AC’s Pick

• Saving the shuttle simulator—“It was an artifact that needed to be preserved”

CJ’s Pick

• NASA RETURNS HUBBLE TO FULL SCIENCE OPERATIONS