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Windows TCO/Security Issues

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 14, 2023

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Microsoft will take nearly a year to finish patching new 0-day Secure Boot bug

=> ↺ Microsoft will take nearly a year to finish patching new 0-day Secure Boot bug

Unlike many high-priority Windows fixes, the update will be disabled by default for at least a few months after it's installed...

Lake County Health Department reports security breach that exposed residents’ health data, personal information [Ed: Microsoft now makes money from its own blunders and lack of security; as Ryan put it, "I like how they say Microsoft is "helping them" when Microsoft was the entire reason they were attacked in the first place."]

=> ↺ Lake County Health Department reports security breach that exposed residents’ health data, personal information

Lake County officials secured the account and investigated the unauthorized activity with Microsoft.

Enforce Zero Trust in Microsoft 365 – Part 2: Protect against external users and applications [Ed: Microsoft 360 is inherently vulnerable, even by design. Those concepts co not belong in the sense article. Microsoft and security is "either or".]

=> ↺ Enforce Zero Trust in Microsoft 365 – Part 2: Protect against external users and applications | ↺ Microsoft and security is "either or"

In the first blog post of this series, we have seen how strong authentication, i.e., Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), could be enforced for users using a free Azure Active Directory subscription within the Microsoft 365 environment.

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