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Posted on 4 April 20244 April 2024

Is Microsoft and New Outlook being “reasonable”?

Here is an interesting story about the new Microsoft Outlook app spying on you – well not on me I do not use it. It comes from a source that I am unfamiliar with, but it was referenced by Bruce Schneier, a source I respect. Outlook is Microsoft’s new data …

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Posted on 6 March 20244 April 2024

Secure those Online Services

using online services is convenient but they need to be secured

We were early adopters when Microsoft launched Office 365, the online services that would become Microsoft 365. Up to then we had been purchasing Microsoft Office licenses each time a new version of Office was released, which was a substantial cost to a small IT company, but we needed to …

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Posted on 23 January 202422 January 2024

If Microsoft can get it wrong…

It has emerged that senior executives at Microsoft had their emails hacked and monitored by Russian threat actors for nearly 2 months. Microsoft network breached through password-spraying by Russian-state hackers | Ars Technica The attack was not sophisticated. The threat actors – Midnight Blizzard – using nothing more than a …

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Posted on 7 November 20239 November 2023

Microsoft raises the security bar

Microsoft is going to automatically deploy a policy for many of it’s customers that will make it mandatory for administrator users to use MFA. Microsoft will roll out MFA-enforcing policies for admin portal access (bleepingcomputer.com) Of course the admins could turn this policy off – but why would they? Watch …

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Posted on 12 October 202311 October 2023

Top Ten Misconfigurations

In several of my most recent IT and Cyber Security Audits I have encountered problems similar to those in this report from the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – misconfigurations. NSA and CISA Release Advisory on Top Ten Cybersecurity Misconfigurations | CISA …

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