Launch of Cloudfirst Podcast!

After close to 1,000 blog posts over the last 11 years and during all that time, I’ve never felt comfortable enough to jump over to another medium such as video or audio. But… after reaching a certain age I decided why not? There is always a lot of content/thoughts/ideas that I’ve been wanting to share …

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Protecting of Critical operations of backup using Azure Resource Guard

One of the common use cases for 3. party backup tools in Azure, is the separation of duties. In theory, if someone has higher-level access to an Azure environment, they can delete the backup/recovery vault and then the backup files. There are of course some safeguards in place such as soft delete but someone with …

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Serious Sam – CVE-2021-36934

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 version 1809 and newer operating …

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Introducing Windows 365

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 Machine from Microsoft Azure. Microsoft …

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PrintNightmare CVE-2021-34527 – Patches

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 Print Spooler Remote Code Execution …

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PrintNightmare – CVE-2021-1675

  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 for Windows 10 version 1607, …

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Windows 11, is TPM required and how it will work in the Cloud?

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 Windows Hello PINs and biometrics …

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