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Alaska Airlines customers were locked out of their accounts on Tuesday morning after the carrier’s website and mobile app returned a rate-limit error when users tried to sign in, leaving many unable to book, change or view travel plans and forcing travelers to rely on airport counters for...

A Proxy Error 429 — the server telling your browser “too many requests” — is one of those transient but productivity-killing problems that can come from either your side (misbehaving scripts, bad proxy configuration, malware) or the server’s side (rate limiting, DDoS protection, load shedding)...

Microsoft has quietly changed one of Excel’s oldest conventions: now you can call an AI assistant from inside a worksheet cell the same way you call SUM or VLOOKUP — with a new COPILOT function that accepts plain‑language prompts, references ranges and tables, and returns dynamic, spillable...

Microsoft has put a generative AI assistant where most knowledge workers spend the bulk of their time: directly into Excel’s grid with a new COPILOT function that lets Microsoft 365 Copilot run natural-language prompts inside individual cells and return multi-cell arrays, categories, summaries...

Widespread vulnerabilities affecting Yealink IP Phones and their Redirect and Provisioning Service (RPS) have put thousands of business communications endpoints at risk of exploitation, forcing urgent updates and raising critical questions about supply chain security in enterprise telephony...

Microsoft OneDrive, a cornerstone of modern cloud storage, has become so deeply integrated into everyday workflows that even minor disruptions can ripple across countless homes and workplaces. In recent days, a significant number of users have found themselves abruptly locked out of their...

The Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) is a critical component of the Windows operating system, responsible for enforcing security policies, handling user authentication, and managing sensitive data such as password hashes. Given its pivotal role, vulnerabilities within LSASS can...

Microsoft might have left the tech world buzzing with their latest announcement about integrating OpenAI’s o1 model into their AI-driven Copilot. But brace yourself, WindowsForum members—those tracks of AI gold might just come with an invisible fence. Heads up! There’s more beneath the surface...

In an alarming revelation for businesses and individual users alike, researchers from Oasis Security uncovered a critical vulnerability within Microsoft’s Multifactor Authentication (MFA) system. Published on December 13, 2024, this discovery poses serious implications for over 400 million...

Original release date: March 29, 2013 Systems Affected Domain Name System (DNS) servers Overview A Domain Name Server (DNS) Amplification attack is a popular form of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) that relies on the use of publically accessible open recursive DNS servers to...