Montgomery experts weigh in after Microsoft outage

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) -You may have your email back after Thursday’s Outlook outage, but you still need to be extra careful when browsing your inbox, according to Auburn University at Montgomery assistant computer science professor Pengzhou He.

“If you are clicking any URL, try to be more cautious because in the downtime of Outlook, the capacity of inspecting a phishing website is also impaired,” He said.

Microsoft said Friday that the outage was not a hack, but rather due to “an issue during an earlier network capacity upgrade that surfaced following a recent network change.”…

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