A couple of days ago a new vulnerability was found in Windows 10, where the SAM (Security Account Manager) database was readable for regular local users given that it could open the database from shadow copies. This was found by (Jonas L (@jonasLyk) / Twitter) And this only affects Windows 10 Read more…
Earlier today, Microsoft announced Windows 365 (Which has been known by some already as Cloud PC) which is Microsoft first DaaS (Desktop as a Service) offering provides from within Microsoft 365. So what is Windows 365? It is a service within Microsoft 365 which is aimed at providing a Windows Read more…
UPDATE: Microsoft also announced CVE-2021-34481 which shows that there are more issues with the print spooler service –> https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-34481 general recommendation is to disable print spooler. Tonight, Microsoft finally came out with the patches for the PrintNightmare vulnerability which you can view here –> CVE-2021-34527 – Security Update Guide – Microsoft – Windows Read more…
Before the weekend, news came out that Kaseya (a known vendor in the RMM market and is commonly used by MSPs) was targeted as part of an attack by the ransomware group called REvil. Kaseya’s public statement and info here –> Important Notice July 4th, 2021 – Kaseya The main target Read more…
UPDATE 2: Patches now released from Microsoft CVE-2021-34527 – Security Update Guide – Microsoft – Windows Print Spooler Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (Still missing some operating system) CVE updated to announce that Microsoft is releasing an update for several versions of Window to address this vulnerability. Updates are not yet available Read more…
For the last 1,5 years now I’ve been working from home. While it has been a blessing and I’ve had more time to focus and spend time with our new four-legged friend. There has been one disadvantage, however…My home office is in the basement, and our coffee machine is upstairs Read more…
When Windows 11 was announced, Microsoft made a huge change to its hardware requirements which was they will now require TPM 2.0 compatible chips on your machine to be able to run Windows 11. TPM today is required for a lot of other services in Windows like BitLocker Drive Encryption Read more…
To be perfectly honest this is a blog post based upon my own personal research and not personal experience, where I’ve gone through and tested different solutions on how you can secure an Azure Kubernetes environment (and the workloads) A Brief overview of how the architecture is within AKS. Where Read more…
As part of Azure Monitor, Microsoft has built an integration with different ITSM systems as part of something called ITSM Connector. There are four main systems that are supported as of now. ServiceNow System Center Service Manager Provance Cherwell Microsoft has also built a new integration for Secure Export (Azure Read more…
After working with Microsoft Azure for over 10 years now, think this must be the one question that I’ve received the most “why is my VM running so slow in Azure?”. Companies that have been using Azure as a pure IaaS based platform and moved or built new virtual machines Read more…