Microsoft has found what caused an outage that crippled its services like Outlook and Teams. Thousands of users swarmed to social media to find out what was happening with their e-mails during the middle of the business day. It turns out that Microsoft was experiencing an outage with Microsoft 365 services, with more than 11,000 …
So, my father in Australia is losing his computer skills over time and in order for me to make sure he’s not being scammed, again, he gave me access to his outlook mail. After checking for a week or two, his spam mail has changed languages. Not just the official “advertising” but the spam mail.
How is this possible without micro soft dicks selling this information to spammers?
If you’ve opened any of the emails and loaded any images, the server hosting those images gets your IP when you load the image. Some times it’s just a single pixel
ah, the 'ol transparant pixel
So they could stop it, but don’t. I’ll never get him to switch to something like proton mail or whatever safe alternative there is.