{"id":151,"date":"2015-01-30T11:35:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T11:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=151"},"modified":"2023-11-12T01:41:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T00:41:12","slug":"warning-microsoft-outlook-app-breaks-company-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2015\/01\/30\/warning-microsoft-outlook-app-breaks-company-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Microsoft Outlook app breaks (company) security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Stop.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/17\/outlook-app-speichert-passwrter-in-der-cloud-und-analysiert-mails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DE<\/a>]A few day ago, Microsoft has released their Outlook app for Android and iOS. Sounds good, but this app comes with a possible breach of your companies (or private) security rules.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I need to confess, I've blogged about the Outlook app for Android and iOS within my German blog (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200812123428\/https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/29\/office-fr-android-outlook-fr-androidios-freigegeben\/\">Office f\u00fcr Android &amp; Outlook f\u00fcr Android\/iOS freigegeben<\/a>). Reading my article, shows, that I wasn't too enthusiastic about Office for Android and the Outlook app.<\/p>\n<p>Some users noticed, that Outlook for Android and iOS was nothing else that the previous Acompli app. Microsoft has acquired Acompli last December for 200 Million US $. Now they re-labeled the App to Microsoft Outlook and put it into Google Play Store and Apples iTunes store. But that's not the beef \u2013 here comes more.<\/p>\n<p>Some readers commented the Outlook app as disappointing within my German blog. But the main caveat comes from Ren\u00e9 Winkelmeyer, who blogged about the app and expressed a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190503021816\/https:\/\/blog.winkelmeyer.com\/2015\/01\/warning-microsofts-outlook-app-for-ios-breaks-your-company-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">security warning<\/a>. The Acompli Microsoft Outlook app stores all your credentials for E-Mail accounts, your attachments, your calendar data and even more data within the cloud. Several German news magazines are reporting about this incident.<\/p>\n<p>If you are administrate also mobile devices within a company, the only advice we can give is: Block the Microsoft Outlook app for security and data privacy reasons. If you are a private user, re-thing about using Microsoft Outlook app to exchange your e-mails. From my current view I can't understand, why Microsoft's management allowed to release such an app. My confidence into reliability and accurateness of Microsoft's products and cloud services was damaged badly today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[DE]A few day ago, Microsoft has released their Outlook app for Android and iOS. Sounds good, but this app comes with a possible breach of your companies (or private) security rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,11],"tags":[60,78,27,77,69],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-office","tag-android","tag-app","tag-ios-2","tag-microsoft-outlook","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}