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Credit to Author: Michael Wallent and Dilip Radhakrishnan| Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 17:00:00 +0000

The main components of the Microsoft Intune Suite are now generally available. Read about how consolidated endpoint management adds value and functionality for security teams.

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Microsoft Security

Best practices in moving to cloud native endpoint management

January 30, 2024 admin Microsoft 365, windows

Credit to Author: Jason Roszak| Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:00:00 +0000

This blog is the second of three that details our recommendation to adopt cloud native device management. Understand the lessons from various Intune customers in their journeys and how they achieved greater security, cost savings, and readiness for the future through their cloud transformations.

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ComputerWorld Independent

Russia hacks Microsoft: It’s worse than you think

January 29, 2024 admin Government IT, microsoft, Regulation, Security, small and medium business, windows

Another day, another hack of Microsoft technology. Ho-hum, you might think, this has happened before and will happen again — as surely as the sun rises in the morning and sets at night.

This time is different. Because this time the targets weren’t Microsoft customers, but rather the top echelons of Microsoft itself. And the hacker group, called Midnight Blizzard, or sometimes Cozy Bear, the Dukes, or A.P.T. 29, is sponsored by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (and has been since at least 2008).

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ComputerWorld Independent

For Patch Tuesday, 48 updates, no zero-day flaws

January 13, 2024 admin microsoft, Security, small and medium business, windows

Microsoft has eased us into the new new year with just 48 updates for the Windows, Office and .NET platforms. There were no zero-days for January, and no reports of publicly exposed vulnerabilities or exploited security issues.

Developers of complex, line-of-business applications might need to pay particular attention to how Microsoft has updated the Message Queue system. Printing has been patched and minor updates to bluetooth and Windows shell sub-systems (shortcuts and wallpaper) require some testing before deployment.

The team at Readiness has crafted a useful infographic that outlines the risks associated with each of the updates for this January release.

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Security Sophos

2024’s first Patch Tuesday steps lightly

January 13, 2024 admin Featured, kerberos, microsoft, Patch Tuesday, security feature bypass, threat research, windows

Credit to Author: Angela Gunn| Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2024 22:03:14 +0000

Four dozen fixes and a handful of advisories make for the quietest January since 2020

ComputerWorld Independent

For December, an exceptionally light Patch Tuesday

December 15, 2023 admin microsoft, Security, small and medium business, windows

Over the past year, we’ve seen Microsoft make radical improvements in its browser stability and significant positive changes to its Windows update communication and telemetry strategies. And this month’s Patch Tuesday release brings with it an incredibly light set of updates — maybe the fewest number of updates I have ever seen.

There are no zero-days, which is a great finish to 2023, though Windows gets three critical updates and Visual Studio will require immediate attention due to several re-releases of past critical application patches.

The team at Readiness has created a helpful infographic to outline the risks associated with each update in this last release of 2023. One note of caution: we have seen several potential updates to older patches (October/November) potentially coming down the release pipeline from Microsoft. It might be worth checking in during the upcoming holiday break to see whether there are any out-of-band patches for the Windows ecosystem.

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