Microsoft resolves issue that wiped out many of its services

Numerous Microsoft 365 services were knocked offline for several hours, leaving users unable to log into accounts and use various tools. Affected services included Office.com, Outlook.com and Teams, and the problem hit users around the world. The company scrambled to determine the root cause of the issues, eventually homing in on a "recent change" which needed to be rolled back. This, however, did not ultimately solve the problem, so Microsoft was forced to put other mitigations in place. See also: Microsoft issues warning about actively exploited Zerologon vulnerability in Windows Source code for Windows XP and other Microsoft software leaks… [Continue Reading]