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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
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A recently published industry report suggested that use of public cloud services by organizations may nearly double in the next two years.
06/26/2019
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Microsoft announced a few OneDrive enhancements, including storage-option additions, plus a new "Personal Vault" feature for added security assurance.
06/25/2019
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Exchange Server 2019 with Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) can help organizations rid themselves of old authentication protocols, which constitute a potential security risk.
06/21/2019
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The official warnings keep coming about the "BlueKeep" security vulnerability. This week it was the turn of the lead national government unit on civilian cybersecurity.
06/19/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced a preview of the Azure Bastion service, which lets a user connect to an Azure virtual machine (VM) using a private Internet connection.
06/18/2019
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Academic researchers this week published information about another side-channel attack method, called "RAMBleed," that can expose information from memory chips, including encryption key information.
06/14/2019
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Microsoft added its conditional access security service to Microsoft 365 Business subscriptions, according to a Wednesday announcement, and it also added new trouble-ticket features for Microsoft 365 administrators.
06/12/2019
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Microsoft has released its monthly bunch of security patches for June, addressing 88 common vulnerabilities and disclosures (CVEs).
06/11/2019
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The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has issued an advisory urging individuals and organizations to install Microsoft's May security patches.
06/04/2019
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Microsoft again issued advice that its May security patches should be installed to prevent a "wormable" vulnerability in Remote Desktop Services from getting exploited by attackers.
05/31/2019
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
With hackers infiltrating one in three Office 365 customers, an IT pro's best bet is to be suspicious of almost everything.
05/30/2019
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Microsoft announced a couple of Azure Active Directory enhancements this week regarding password lengths and new conditional access controls for IT pros.
05/16/2019
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Microsoft this week described Attack Surface Analyzer 2.0, an updated tool for checking software installations that's now built using open source code.
05/16/2019
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Microsoft is again promoting its HyperClear Hyper-V hypervisor technology as a potential balm for organizations trying to come to grips with Intel's latest speculative execution side-channel attack disclosures.
05/15/2019
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Microsoft released its May security updates on "update Tuesday," but a patching vortex also opened up as Intel disclosed new processor vulnerabilities.
05/14/2019
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A federal computer security watchdog agency on Monday warned Office 365 users and their technology partners about common Office 365 misconfigurations.
05/13/2019
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A "Critical"-rated vulnerability in SharePoint Server versions that Microsoft issued a patch for back in March is now getting actively targeted, according to some security authorities.
05/10/2019
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Microsoft this week laid out security advice for organizations, which included some best-practice guidelines for IT pros.
05/09/2019
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A recent report suggests that Microsoft's own e-mail security protections have trouble differentiating between real and fraudulent messages from itself.
05/06/2019
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Microsoft announced this week that part of its new threat-hunting service for organizations has reached the "general availability" (GA) commercial release stage.
05/02/2019
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Microsoft announced this week that it will be reorganizing its Office 365 ProPlus privacy controls with an aim toward becoming more "transparent" about the information it collects.
05/01/2019
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced various Office 365 security and compliance improvements, mostly for Microsoft 365 subscribers.
04/30/2019
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Microsoft indicated that its container images hosted on Docker Hub weren't compromised by a security breach that was discovered by Docker last week.
04/29/2019