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Removing admin rights mitigates most critical Microsoft vulnerabilities
Avecto has analyzed the security bulletins Microsoft released in the past year, and came to an important conclusion: an overwhelming majority of all the critical Microsoft …
Microsoft pushes out patches for critical Flash Player vulnerabilities
Microsoft has skipped its February 2017 Patch Tuesday and postponed the release of those patches for March, but there are apparently security vulnerabilities that must be …
Microsoft postpones Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday is the day when most system administrators sit down and perform critical patching of the systems under their control – or at least begin testing the …
Will February’s Patch Tuesday fix a known zero-day?
Coming into Patch Tuesday we have a known zero day on the Microsoft side, and we’ve seen example code for an SMB exploit that could lead to DoS and BYOD of a system. US …
Most employees use unsanctioned group chat tools
Employees are sharing sensitive company information using group chat tools that are not officially sanctioned for use, according to SpiderOak. The survey consisted of 600 …
New year, new patches: A look back and what to expect in the future
As to be expected when ringing in a new year, there are predictions galore flooding social media and that includes the cybersecurity space. Predications are more than just …
Corporate Office 365 users hit with clever phishing attack
Corporate Office 365 users are being targeted by phishers using a clever new trick to bypass email filters and the default security protections of the Microsoft service. The …
New minimum code signing requirements for use by all CAs
The Certificate Authority Security Council (CASC), an advocacy group committed to the advancement web security, announced the Code Signing Working Group has released new …
SAMRi10: Windows 10 hardening tool for thwarting network recon
Microsoft researchers Itai Grady and Tal Be’ery have released another tool to help admins harden their environment against reconnaissance attacks: SAMRi10 (pronounced …
The transformative impact of cloud adoption
Despite the average company using 1,427 cloud services to upload an average of 18.5 TB of data to cloud applications each month, less than 9 percent of cloud providers are …
Researchers identify domain-level service credential exploit
CyberArk Labs unveiled new research detailing what it considers to be a significant risk across all Windows endpoints, including those on Windows 10 with Credential Guard …
Cloud adoption hits all-time high, Microsoft and Google dominate
With continued growth in use of Office 365 and G Suite, overall cloud adoption has hit an all-time high, according to Bitglass. Fifty-nine percent of organizations worldwide …
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