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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Here's how you can use Hyper-V's replica infrastructure to minimize disruptions caused by the patch management process.
09/25/2019
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Azure Sentinel, Microsoft's cloud-based security information and event management (SIEM) solution, has reached the "general availability" release stage.
09/24/2019
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Microsoft on Monday released two "out-of-band" security advisories, one for its Internet Explorer (IE) browsers and another regarding its Microsoft Defender antimalware solution.
09/23/2019
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Microsoft upped the stakes in its effort to end "Basic Authentication" with the Exchange Online e-mail service.
09/23/2019
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Microsoft recently announced a bunch of tooling updates for organizations using Office 365 and Azure solutions.
09/20/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced a preview of Azure Private Link, an option for keeping Azure service connections off the public Internet.
09/18/2019
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Kirill Tatarinov, former president and CEO of Citrix and a longtime senior executive at Microsoft, is taking on a senior executive role at data protection specialist Acronis.
09/16/2019
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The Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Evaluation Lab is now ready for use by organizations.
09/12/2019
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Microsoft updated an August security advisory this week to urge organizations using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol in supported Windows systems to implement some configuration changes manually.
09/11/2019
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Microsoft released security patches for multiple vulnerabilities in Windows and various applications in its September "update Tuesday" release.
09/10/2019
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A new Confidential Computing Consortium was announced on Wednesday by the Linux Foundation to boost the security of processed data.
08/21/2019
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If three Florida municipalities getting hit by ransomware earlier this month sounded bad, here's a Texas-sized problem for you.
08/20/2019
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Microsoft warned this week in a Twitter post that its August security updates won't install for users of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 if those operating system lack certain March updates.
08/16/2019
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Microsoft's August security updates address about 93 common vulnerabilities and exposures, several of which are associated with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
08/13/2019
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Microsoft indicated recently that "BlueKeep" exploit code for Windows systems is now "widely available" for use by attackers.
08/12/2019
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To entice businesses still using Windows Server 2008 into migrating to its cloud, Microsoft is offering a big carrot: Extended Security Updates (ESU) plans at no cost.
08/08/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
The new Sandbox feature in Windows 10 lets organizations run potentially risky executables in isolation, without having to set up a virtual machine.
07/23/2019
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Remote Desktop Protocol is an easy-to-find and popular target for remote attackers, according to a recent study conducted by Sophos.
07/19/2019
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Organizations wanting a future without passwords will likely face some hurdles getting there, Microsoft admitted in an announcement this week.
07/12/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Of the many security improvements Microsoft made to the latest Windows 10 release, the ability to wall-off the Edge browser against malware attacks is one of the most critical.
07/11/2019
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the availability of a public preview of Azure Active Directory's FIDO2 support, which enables user authentications without passwords.
07/10/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday released its July security patch bundle, which addresses about 77 common vulnerabilities and exposures across various Microsoft products.
07/09/2019
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Microsoft issued some reminders this week that July 9, 2019, is the last day of patch support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
07/09/2019
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About 10 years ago, a worm dubbed Conficker began constructing a botnet that ran away to over 10 million Windows computers.
07/01/2019
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The Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program, in combination with its Power Query data-fetching component, can be leveraged in so-called "Dynamic Data Exchange" (DDE) types of attacks.
06/27/2019