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Microsoft Adds Raft of Zero-Trust Tools and Platforms
Microsoft this week launched a raft of cybersecurity initiatives that address everything from making Windows platforms more secure to adding platforms that are more secure by design ...
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Azure Key Vault Tradecraft with BARK
BriefThis post details the existing and new functions in BARK that support adversarial tradecraft research relevant to the Azure Key Vault service. The latter part of the post shows an example of ...

Microsoft Veeps Ignite Fire Under CrowdStrike
Richi Jennings | | CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike incident;, crowdstrike updates, David Weston, ignite, Microsoft, Microsoft security, Microsoft Virus Initiative, Microsoft Windows, Quick Machine Recovery, rust, Safe Deployment Practices, SB Blogwatch, Windows, Windows security
BSODs begone! Redmond business leaders line up to say what’s new in Windows security ...
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DOJ, Microsoft Take Down Domains Used by Russian-Backed Group
The DOJ and Microsoft in a joint effort seized dozens of domains from a Russian-based threat group known as Star Blizzard, which for more than a year was targeting civil society groups ...
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CrowdStrike Gets Grilled By U.S. Lawmakers Over Faulty Software Update
In what has become an annual ritual between Silicon Valley and the Beltway, a House subcommittee pressed a tech company over a glitch. And the company promised to do better. During a ...
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Microsoft Pushes Governance, Sheds Unused Apps in Security Push
Microsoft outlined steps it's taken over the past year under its Security Future Initiative, which was launched late last year in the wake of a high-profile attack by Chinese attackers and only ...
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After CrowdStrike Crash, Microsoft Mulls New Windows Security Tools
Microsoft is looking to add new security platform features to Windows, including allowing security vendors to operate outside of the OS' kernel to avoid the situation that let a faulty software update ...
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Microsoft Is Adding New Cryptography Algorithms
Microsoft is updating SymCrypt, its core cryptographic library, with new quantum-secure algorithms. Microsoft’s details are here. From a news article: The first new algorithm Microsoft added to SymCrypt is called ML-KEM. Previously ...

Microsoft Fixes Four 0-Days — One Exploited for SIX YEARS
Richi Jennings | | CVE-2024-38014, CVE-2024-38217, CVE-2024-38226, CVE-2024-43491, KB5043083, KB5043936, Mark of the Web, Microsoft, Microsoft Patch Tuesday September 2024, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Zero Day, Patch Tuesday, SB Blogwatch, Windows, Windows Update
Week B: Bugs begone! This month Redmond fixes 79 security flaws in Windows and other products ...
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Patch Tuesday not Done ’til LINUX Won’t Run?
Richi Jennings | | CVE-2022-2601, Dual boot, GRUB2 Bootloader Secure Boot Bypass, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2024, Microsoft Windows, Patch Tuesday, SB Blogwatch, SBAT, secure boot, Secure Boot Advanced Targeting, Windows
Redmond reboot redux: “Something has gone seriously wrong.” You can say that again, Microsoft ...
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