[German]According to Yahoo! Finance, around 65,000 ransomware attacks are expected this year in the US alone. It doesn't seem to matter what region, country or industry it happens in. Security vendor Vectra provided me with some thoughts on how to spot ransomware and attackers in the cloud.
[German]If I understand correctly, many companies are moving towards the cloud. The hope is that once the on-premises Exchange functions are moved to the cloud in Exchange Online, the on-premises solutions will be gone. The other day I came across an interesting article whose message was simply "you will continue to rely on on-premises Exchange".
[German]Microsoft has published an eBook that provides key native Azure capabilities and defenses for ransomware attacks, as well as guidance on how to proactively use these capabilities to protect your assets in the Azure cloud. This eBook can be obtained for free from Microsoft.
[German]A little question regarding transport encryption for data connections in the network or to the Internet. There are different versions of the transport encryption protocols and with time, for example, the support for TLS 1.0 etc. is dropped for security reasons. But which TLS versions are actually supported by the various Windows clients and servers?
[German]Microsoft has released a security advisory for the Edge browser as of September 9, 2021, updating the browser to version 93.0.961.44. The update also closed the CVE-2021-38669 vulnerability.
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[German]NAS manufacturer QNAP has released security updates for devices that work with QTS, QuTS hero and QuTScloud on September 10, 2021. In addition, there are probably also security updates for routers with QuNetSwitch. The security updates are intended to close vulnerabilities that are already being exploited by attackers.
[German]Trend Micro has released patch 2342 for its Worry Free Business Security Advanced 10.0 for Windows 10, effective September 10, 2021. Here's some information about it. Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security (TM WFBS) protects small businesses, users, and assets from data theft, identity theft, risky websites, and spam (Advanced variant only).
[German]Microsoft has released Windows 11 build 22454 for Windows Insiders as a preview in the Dev Channel on September 9, 2021 – just under a month before the general release on October 5, 2021. Now this build is also available for download as an ISO installation image for Windows Insiders.
[German]Another brief addendum to a topic that has been on my stack for a few days already. James Forshaw from Google Project Zero disclosed a vulnerability in Windows AppContainers as early as mid-August 2021, which allows communication via the firewall in the network. After Microsoft was informed about the vulnerability, it said that it would not provide a patch. Recently, however, Microsoft rowed back and announced a patch to Forshaw. James Forshaw from Project Zero has since made the vulnerability and the details of the security hole public.
[German]The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in Zoho's password management solution ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus. The vulnerability allows attackers to take control of the system. The vendor has provided a security update to close the vulnerability.
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