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Exchange Online bug mistakenly quarantines user emails
Microsoft is investigating an Exchange Online bug causing anti-spam systems to mistakenly quarantine some users’ emails. According to a new incident report added to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, the email issues started almost five hours ago, at 10:11 UTC. While the company has yet to share what regions are impacted, this Exchange Online incident has been tagged as a critical service issue tracked under EX1038119 on the…
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Week-long Exchange Online outage causes email failures, delays
Microsoft says it partially mitigated a week-long Exchange Online outage causing delays or failures when sending or receiving email messages. While the company didn’t publicly share information on this incident, it tagged it as a critical service issue tracked under EX1027675 on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Microsoft has yet to share more information on what regions were affected by…
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Garantex crypto exchange admin arrested while on vacation
Indian authorities arrested Aleksej Besciokov, the co-founder and one of the administrators of the Russian Garantex crypto-exchange while vacationing with his family in Varkala, India. As infosec journalist Brian Krebs first reported on Tuesday, the 46-year-old Lithuanian national and Russian resident was apprehended on Tuesday afternoon by Kerala state police officers under the country’s extradition law. Besciokov (aka “proforg” and…
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US seizes domain of Garantex crypto exchange used by ransomware gangs
The U.S. Secret Service has seized the domain of the sanctioned Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex in collaboration with the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, the FBI, and Europol. Other law enforcement authorities involved in this action include the Dutch National Police, the German Federal Criminal Police Office, the Frankfurt General Prosecutor’s Office, the Estonian National Criminal Police, and the Finnish…
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Are you prepared for the sunsetting of Exchange Server 2016 and 2019? – Computerworld
These “corner cases” typically have unique privacy or regulatory requirements — or it might simply come down to company culture. “That points to something bigger: You’re hosting your own email and managing it a certain way because you’ve always done it that way,” said Kimball. But that’s typically not best for a business’ users and partners, not to mention its…
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Update Exchange Server or move to the cloud, say experts – Computerworld
In the alert, the company urged admins to take action, saying, “If your servers are so much out of date [pre-March 2023], please update your servers ASAP to secure your email workload and re-enable your Exchange server to check for EEMS rules.” The Microsoft blog is “alarming,” said Andrew Grotto, a research scholar at Stanford University’s Centre of International Security and…
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Outdated Exchange servers fail to auto-mitigate security bugs
Microsoft says outdated Exchange servers cannot receive new emergency mitigation definitions because an Office Configuration Service certificate type is being deprecated. Emergency mitigations (also known as EEMS mitigations) are delivered via the Exchange Emergency Mitigation Service(EEMS), introduced three years ago in September 2021. EEMS automatically applies interim mitigations for high-risk (and likely actively exploited) security flaws to secure on-premises Exchange…
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Exchange 2016 and 2019 reach end of support in October
Microsoft has reminded admins that Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 will reach the end of extended support in October and shared guidance for those who need to decommission outdated servers. Exchange 2016 reached its mainstream end date in October 2020, while Exchange 2019 reached the end of mainstream support on January 9, 2024. “On October 14, 2025, 9 months from…
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Microsoft re-releases Exchange updates after fixing mail delivery
Microsoft has re-released the November 2024 security updates for Exchange Server after pulling them earlier this month due to email delivery issues on servers using custom mail flow rules. The company announced it pulled the updates from the Download Center and Windows Update following widespread reports from admins that email had stopped flowing in their organizations. This known issue affects…
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Microsoft pulls Exchange security updates over mail delivery issues
Microsoft has pulled the November 2024 Exchange security updates released during this month’s Patch Tuesday because of email delivery issues on servers using custom mail flow rules. The company announced it pulled the updates from Windows Update and the Download Center following widespread reports from admins saying that email had stopped flowing altogether. This issue affects customers using transport rules…
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