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The web giant is the latest firm, behind Google, Facebook, and Twitter, to warn users of state attacks.  Bob Lord, the company's newly appointed chief information security officer, said in a blog post that it will notify users if it suspects suspect that their account may have been targeted by a state-sponsored actor. "We'll provide these specific notifications so that our users can take appropriate measures to protect their accounts and devices in light of these sophisticated attacks," said Lord. Yahoo's security team, dubbed the "Paranoids," will provide notifications to targeted users with "specific actions" so that they can ensure their Yahoo accounts are safe and secure. The numerous safety steps on offer to the user, in part thanks to Lord's predecessor, Alex Stamos, who left earlier this year to work for Facebook, includes two-factor authentication and verifying account recovery information is valid and up-t

Microsoft is adding new suggested contact and automatic flight notifications to Outlook on the Web and Outlook.com starting in January 2016, Microsoft plans to make two new features available to users of Outlook on the Web and Outlook.com. Suggested contacts -- designed to help users find correct contacts more quickly -- and an "events from email" feature that will add airline flights automatically to users' calendars are both on their way, Microsoft officials announced on December 18. Events from email will start rolling out in early January 2016 to Office 365 First Release customers and those who have been migrated to the new Outlook.com preview. Microsoft officials said they expect this feature to roll out more broadly in March 2016. Because events from email are stored in users' calendars, they will show up automatically in all versions of Outlook (PC, Mac, iOS, Android and Windows Phone) that connect to Office 365 and/o

The first cumulative update for Windows 10 Mobile is available to Windows Insider testers in preview form. Microsoft has made available its first Cumulative Update to the version of the Windows 10 Mobile operating system it delivered in November. Microsoft delivered the update, which it is calling 10586.29, the evening of December 4. Microsoft officials are referring to the update as a Cumulative Update, rather than a typical preview build. What's in 10586.29 ? According to Windows Insider chief Gabe Aul: Improvements in upgrade experience, in particular for devices with limited free space, map rendering on update, and RCS enabled device settings. Improved application backwards compatibility for Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight applications. Edge performance and stability improvements. Updated auto-completion to allow user to more easily edit the end of the URL in the address bar. Additional Bluetooth stability improvements. Fixes for s

Summary: Microsoft will release the core components of its 'Chakra' JavaScript engine as open source in January 2016. Microsoft plans to publish the core components of its "Chakra" JavaScript engine to GitHub under an MIT open source license in January 2016. Company officials announced the plans, which had been  rumored for the past few weeks , at the  JSConf on December 5 . Chakra was the codename for the JavaScript engine  that Microsoft built to power Internet Explorer 9 and which it has used in subsequent IE and  Edge browser  releases. I didn't realize until this until this week that the Chakra engine also is powering Cortana, Outlook.com, Azure DocumentDB and TypeScript. With Windows 10, Microsoft enabled Node.js to run with Chakra, enabling Node.js to work on Windows 10 IoT Core. Microsoft officials said that the people expected to use Chakra and for what types of applications and services as "We are still in the very early stages of th