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Microsoft Now Forces Secure RPC To Block Windows Zerologon Attacks Microsoft has enabled enforcement mode for updates addressing the Windows Zerologon vulnerability on all devices that installed this month’s Patch Tuesday security updates. Zerologon is a critical Netlogon Windows Server process security flaw (tracked as CVE-2020-1472) that allows attackers to elevate privileges to Read more…

Microsoft Office February Security Updates Patch Sharepoint, Excel RCE Bugs Microsoft has addressed important severity remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting multiple Office products in the January 2021 Office security updates. In total, the company released 26 security updates and 5 cumulative updates for 7 different products, fixing 11 vulnerabilities that Read more…

Microsoft Urges Customers To Patch Critical Windows TCP/IP Bugs Microsoft has urged customers today to install security updates for three Windows TCP/IP vulnerabilities rated as critical and high severity as soon as possible. This warning was issued due to elevated exploitation risk and potential denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that could soon Read more…

Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday Fixes 56 Flaws, 1 Zero-Day Today is Microsoft’s February 2021 Patch Tuesday, so please be buy your Windows administrators some snacks to keep their energy up throughout the day. With today’s update, Microsoft has fixed for 56 vulnerabilities, with eleven classified as Critical, two as Moderate, and Read more…

Office 365 Will Help Admins Find Impersonation Attack Targets Microsoft will make it easier for Defender for Office 365 customers to identify users and domains targeted in impersonation-based phishing attacks as recently revealed on the Microsoft 365 roadmap. Defender for Office 365 (previously known as Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection) protects Read more…

Microsoft: Recent Windows 10 Gaming Issues Caused By Discord Bug Microsoft has acknowledged a known issue that was causing Direct3D 12 games to fail to launch or crash with an error on some Windows 10 devices. “Microsoft and Discord have found incompatibility issues with some games using Direct3D 12 when Read more…

Microsoft: Keep Your Guard Up Even After Emotet’s Disruption Microsoft warns customers not to let their guard down even after hundreds of Emotet botnet servers were taken down in late January 2021. Emotet, originally a run-of-the-mill banking trojan spotted in 2014, has evolved into today’s largest and most dangerous botnet Read more…

Microsoft To Alert Office 365 Users Of Nation-State Hacking Activity Microsoft will soon notify Office 365 of suspected nation-state hacking activity detected within their tenants according to a new listing on the company’s Microsoft 365 roadmap. Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (previously known as Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection or Office 365 ATP) Read more…

Microsoft Warns Of Increasing OAuth Office 365 Phishing Attacks Microsoft has warned of an increasing number of consent phishing (aka OAuth phishing) attacks targeting remote workers during recent months, BleepingComputer has learned. These attacks were part of two campaigns that ran between September and December 2020, targeting victims in multiple Read more…

Microsoft Fixes PowerPoint Crashes In Office February Updates Microsoft released the February 2021 non-security Microsoft Office updates with improvements and fixes for issues and crashes impacting Windows Installer (MSI) editions of Office 2016, Office 2013, and Office 2010 products. Multiple updates (KB4493164, KB4493169, and KB4493179) have been released to address issues that may lead to a Read more…