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Mon. 04/15 - Don't Ignore Those Office Updates!

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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You really need to run those Office updates, rumors of chaos at HQ Trivia, further details on Apple Arcade and Apple News+, and hands on with the Galaxy Fold. Sponsors: Logianalytics.com/ride Mealime.com Links: Hackers Could Read Your Hotmail, MSN, and Outlook Emails by Abusing Microsoft Support (Motherboard) Kaspersky: 70 percent of attacks now target Office vulnerabilities (ZDNet) Mutiny at HQ Trivia fails to oust CEO (TechCrunch) ‘Basically playing favorites’: Apple News+ gets off to a rocky start for some publishers (Digiday) Apple spends hundreds of millions on Arcade video game service (Financial Times) HANDS-ON WITH THE SAMSUNG GALAXY FOLD: MORE THAN JUST A CONCEPT (TheVerge) Unfolding the Samsung Galaxy Fold (TechCrunch) Booking.com is Beating Airbnb in Home Stays, Latest Numbers Show (Fortune) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:06.4

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0:15.6

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0:20.5

Thanks. Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Monday, April 15, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

0:30.0

Today, you really need to run those office updates, it turns out.

0:35.0

Rumors of Chaos at HQ trivia, further details on Apple Arcade and Apple News Plus, and a hands-on

0:41.6

with the Galaxy Fold. Here's what you miss today in the world of

0:45.1

tech. Over the weekend Microsoft confirmed that hackers had

0:52.1

compromised a support agent's credentials, or at least some

0:56.4

super user's credentials inside Microsoft to gain access to Microsoft managed web-based emails

1:02.3

on services like Outlook, MSN and Hotmail.

1:06.4

This morning it appears that the breach might have been worse than originally reported.

1:10.6

In short, hackers broke into a customer support account or some high-level account again at

1:16.1

Microsoft and then somehow used that to gain super access to customer email accounts.

1:22.1

The hackers could apparently see subject lines of emails, who the

1:25.8

emails were sent to, email folder names, etc. And then maybe it was even

1:30.9

worse than that. Quoting Motherboard who is basing their reporting on an unnamed source,

1:36.0

quote, in March before Microsoft publicly confirmed the hack,

1:39.0

the source told motherboard that this abuse of a customer support portal

1:42.0

allowed the hackers to gain

1:44.0

access to any email account as long as it wasn't a corporate level account. This means

1:49.2

that while paid enterprise accounts that businesses pay for weren't affected, normal consumer accounts

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