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Security Vulnerability in OpenSSL CVE-2022-3602 (RCE) and CVE-2022-3786 (DOS)

Earlier today a new Security Vulnerability was disclosed in the popular OpenSSL (libssl) Library (affecting products using OpenSSL 3.0.0-3.0.6.) which affects most software companies in the world. The OpenSSL team released an updated version of the library today 3.0.7. OpenSSL CVE-2022-3602 (RCE) and CVE-2022-3786 (DOS) published earlier today and was fixed in the release 3.0.7 NOTE: […]

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Microsoft Premium V2 SSD – CSI v2 and AKS PVC Resizing

Microsoft has recently released Premium SSD P2 Disk. This new feature is highlighting a change in the underlying architecture of the storage service in Azure. Before this v2 release, the performance of a disk was always associated with the size of the disk. With the v2 release, there are numerous improvements to the disk service.

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Azure DDoS IP Protection

Last week during Ignite 2022, Microsoft released a public preview of a new DDoS feature called IP-based protection which is aimed at protecting DDoS attacks on layer 4 (namely TCP SYN Flood attacks) When looking at the statistics for Q3 this year from the blog from Cloudflare, the most predominant form of DDoS attacks is

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Deployment of Azure Container Apps with Volume Mounts using Terraform

Recently with working with a customer, we wanted to set up Azure Container Apps with Volume Mounts using CI/CD with Terraform. Until now, the only option has been to configure it using Azure CLI. However! last week Microsoft introduced some new part of the API that allows us to manage this using Azure Resource Manager

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Azure Active Directory – Security Overview

After working with Azure AD for a looong time I always forget how complex it has gotten over the years, with all the new features and capabilities that have been introduced. Therefore, I decided that I wanted to create an overview of the endpoints/integrations/connections/features in the ecosystem. Mostly for myself but hopefully it can be

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Microsoft Defender falsely detecting Win32/Hive.ZY

Just a quick post, after a recent signature update to Microsoft Defender (This one –> Antimalware updates change log – Microsoft Security Intelligence) you might get these events from Defender. This was a false positive and has been fixed in the latest signature updates from Microsoft Antimalware updates change log – Microsoft Security Intelligence (1.373.1537.0)

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Getting started with Microsoft DevBox

Earlier today, Microsoft released DevBox into Public Preview (which is a feature that was announced at Microsoft build earlier this summer. Microsoft DevBox can be seen as an alternative to Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop but is aimed at Developers, as it is still about providing developers with a VDI desktop in Azure running

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Getting started with Microsoft Defender EASM (External Attack Surface Management)

About a week ago, Microsoft released a new product called Microsoft Defender EASM which is based upon an earlier product from RiskIQ and is now a part of Microsoft Azure. You can look at this as a Shodan-light alternative where you can see your organization from an outside view—looking at what kind of external services

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Citrix (CVAD) vs Azure Virtual Desktop – Part One

A long time ago I wrote a blog post around Microsoft RDS vs Citrix XenDesktop at the time where I looked at the overall functionality and end-user experience, which you can read about here https://msandbu.org/so-why-choose-citrix-over-microsoft-rds-2/ (and now fast forward to 2022 not much of that is that much relevant anymore.) A Couple of weeks ago I saw

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Streaming of audit logs from Oracle Cloud to Microsoft Sentinel

With the recent announcement of a new partnership between Microsoft and Oracle for Oracle database services, I wanted to look further into setting up log collection from Oracle Cloud to Microsoft Sentinel. When I started digging there wasn’t much information available (except some minor blog posts from the Oracle side, but I wanted to use

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