A while back a customer of ours got targeted with a phishing attack that came through Microsoft Teams. What happened was that the attackers created a new O365 organization and named the users in their tenant like the people working in the IT department in the customer organization. By default, Microsoft Teams has a federation …
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This is a summary blog post on a presentation that I hosted on the Microsoft Security User Group Norway a few weeks back (You can view the presentation here –> community/MSUGC-securing-virtual-machines-english.pptx at main · msandbu/community (github.com)) There are many security features within Microsoft Azure when it comes to securing virtual infrastructure. 1: Encrypting data and VM …
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A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft introduced a new preview feature for AVD called ShortPath for Public Networks. This allows us to get UDP-based connections to our AVD machines instead of the traditional Reverse TCP-based connections. NOTE: This feature is still in preview This of course improves our end-user experience since we can push more content without needing to …
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One of the things I’ve been working a lot with the latest 6 months are projects related to cloud-native and delivered Container-based workloads. One of the things I find fascinating about this is the surrounding cloud-native ecosystem. As a kid, I (was one of the few…) that subscribed to computer magazines, and one of the things I …
With more governmental requirements enforcing requirements that public-facing services need to support IPv6 a lot of customers that have started their cloud journey might be having some issues with adopting IPv6 on all their services. Especially with Microsoft Azure, not all services support IPv6 natively, therefore, I wanted to write this post to give an …
Last week, a hacker group called LAPSUS had able to gain access to NVIDIA and was able to collect a large amount of data from the internal fileservers, including code signing certificates. Now this week they also claim that they have hacked Samsung, and are providing a lot of claims/proof on what kind of data …
This is a question that has come up a lot of times the last couple of weeks, also with some feedback as comments on some earlier blog posts that I had a couple of years back as well. Therefore, I decided to write a summary of the current state of things to give some feedback …
10 years ago, I wrote my first book together with Packt Publishing, today I’m happy to announce that I’m started working on a new book project together with them. The title will be “Windows Ransomware Protection and Detection“, the content of the book will be focused on: * What is ransomware? giving real-life examples of …
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A while back, a customer asked me to help inspect what happened to an environment in Azure that got compromised and was used to launch a ransomware attack. Unfortunately, this environment also had a VPN connection between Azure and their existing on-premises data center which also meant that their entire infrastructure got compromised eventually…. Now …
With Azure Kubernetes Service, Microsoft is constantly developing the service to follow the release cycle of Kubernetes, with an updated version coming every 3. months it means that it requires a lot of upgrading of the Kubernetes instances to be on a supported version. Microsoft has a list here of the release calendar Supported Kubernetes versions …
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