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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
Week B: Bugs begone! This month Redmond fixes 79 security flaws in Windows and other products ...
Patch Tuesday not Done ’til LINUX Won’t Run?
Redmond reboot redux: “Something has gone seriously wrong.” You can say that again, Microsoft ...
Pathlock Cloud is Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace
We’re excited to announce that Pathlock Cloud is now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This is a significant milestone for us as it brings the power and reliability of our cloud-based ...
The Great CrowdStrike Crash, AI’s Role in Employee Smiles
In episode 341, we cover the unprecedented global IT outage caused by a CrowdStrike update crash, affecting 8.5 million Windows machines. We discuss whether it’s the largest outage in history and discuss ...
Emulating Sandworm’s Prestige Ransomware
AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors exhibited by Prestige ransomware since the beginning of its activities in October 2022. Prestige has been observed targeting organizations in the ...
