Microsoft Warns IT Pros on Windows Netlogon Fix Coming Next Month
Microsoft on Thursday issued a reminder to organizations to ensure that their systems are properly patched for a "Critical"-rated Windows Netlogon vulnerability before next month's "update Tuesday" patch distribution arrives.
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Fri, Jan 15 2021
Microsoft Nudging Skype for Business Users to Teams
Microsoft on Thursday announced some perks and prods for Skype for Business unified communications users, with the aim of moving them to the Microsoft Teams collaboration service instead.
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Fri, Jan 15 2021
Microsoft Offers More 'Solorigate' Advice Using Microsoft 365 Defender Tools
Microsoft issued yet another article with advice on how to use its Microsoft 365 Defender suite of tools to protect against "Solorigate" advanced persistent threat types of attacks in a Thursday announcement.
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Thu, Jan 14 2021
Microsoft FastTrack Support Extended to Microsoft 365 Defender Solutions
The Microsoft FastTrack support program has been extended to Microsoft 365 Defender products for certain qualified subscribers, Microsoft indicated this week.
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Thu, Jan 14 2021
Microsoft 365 File-Size Support Expanding to 250GB
Microsoft 365 users will be getting expanded file-size support, allowing files to be shared that are 250GB maximum in size, per a Microsoft announcement this week.
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Wed, Jan 13 2021
Windows Server Update Services Users Getting Proxy-Use Change This Month
Microsoft on Tuesday notified Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) users that it's no longer going to automatically support "user proxies" to get patches from Microsoft's content delivery networks (CDNs), starting with this month's cumulative update release.
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Wed, Jan 13 2021
Microsoft Delivers Fixes for 83 Vulnerabilities in January Security Patch Bundle
Microsoft released its January security patch bundle on Tuesday, delivering fixes for 83 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs).
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Tue, Jan 12 2021
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Gets Linux Server Forensics Capabilities
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now has an endpoint detection and response (EDR) capability for use with Linux servers that's deemed ready for use in production environments, Microsoft indicated on Monday.
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Tue, Jan 12 2021
CISA Points to APT Attack Methods Besides 'Solorigate' that Affected Microsoft 365, Azure Services
An advanced persistent threat actor associated with the SolarWinds Orion attacks used their ability to create credentials to compromise a victim's Microsoft 365 and Azure services, but they didn't always tap the so-called "Solorigate" vulnerability to do so.
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Sat, Jan 09 2021
U.S. National Security Agency Offers Advice on Blocking Obsolete TLS
The U.S. National Security Agency this month published an advisory on detecting and blocking old and insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol use by organizations.
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Fri, Jan 08 2021
