best practices

  1. AA20-198A: Malicious Cyber Actor Use of Network Tunneling and Spoofing to Obfuscate Geolocation

    Original release date: July 16, 2020 Summary This Activity Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK™) and Pre-ATT&CK frameworks. See the MITRE ATT&CK for Enterprise and Pre-ATT&CK frameworks for referenced threat actor techniques. Attributing...
  2. AA20-133A: Top 10 Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

    Original release date: May 12, 2020 Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the broader U.S. Government are providing this technical guidance to advise IT security professionals at public and private sector...
  3. AA20-120A: Microsoft Office 365 Security Recommendations

    Original release date: April 29, 2020 Summary As organizations adapt or change their enterprise collaboration capabilities to meet “telework” requirements, many organizations are migrating to Microsoft Office 365 (O365) and other cloud collaboration services. Due to the speed of these...
  4. AA20-120A: Microsoft Office 365 Security Recommendations

    Original release date: April 29, 2020 Summary As organizations adapt or change their enterprise collaboration capabilities to meet “telework” requirements, many organizations are migrating to Microsoft Office 365 (O365) and other cloud collaboration services. Due to the speed of these...
  5. August 2019 Security Updates

    We have released the August security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to turn on automatic updates. More information about this month’s security updates can be found in the Security Update Guide. As a reminder...
  6. Windows 10 Upgrading my pc build

    Hi everyone, So I built my pc back in december. But I want to slowly start saving up to upgrade my pc. I've already upgraded the cooler from a cooler master hyper 212 Led to a be quiet dark rock pro 4. But what else could/should I upgrade? My build: Link Removed Thanks!
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    Windows 10 Avoid login screen, password etc

    I’m beefing up my laptop (which in any event needs a new cooling fan (sounds like a 737 starting up sometimes) and battery (short charge time and looks a bit lumpy) with a new SSD. I’ve retrieved the product key just in case, and this is going to be a completely fresh installation using the...
  8. AA19-024A: DNS Infrastructure Hijacking Campaign

    Original release date: January 24, 2019 Summary The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is aware of a global Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure hijacking campaign. Using compromised...
  9. Microsoft’s Cyber Defense Operations Center shares best practices

    Today, a single breach, physical or virtual, can cause millions of dollars of damage to an organization and potentially billions in financial losses to the global economy. Each week seems to bring a new disclosure of a cybersecurity breach somewhere in the world. As we look at the current state...
  10. VIDEO Inside MSRC: Sharing Our Story & Customer Tips

    For the last 20 years, the Microsoft Security Response Center has been an integral part of Microsoft’s commitment to customer security. We are often called on to talk about the work we do and how customers can apply the lessons we have learned over that period to better their security posture...
  11. August 2018 Security Update Release

    Today, we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to turn on automatic updates. More information about this month’s security updates can be found on the Link Removed. MSRC team Continue reading...
  12. Bringing Screen Capture to Microsoft Edge with the Media Capture API

    Beginning with the EdgeHTML 17, Microsoft Edge is the first browser to support Screen Capture via the Screen Capture API. Web developers can start building on this feature today by upgrading to the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, or using one of our Link Removed. Screen Capture uses the new...
  13. How do you balance privacy and security

    For a while now I've been trying to avoid Google and Microsoft services as much as possible. Yet we all know that's not probable if you want to function normally in today's world. Well I've kind of hit a point where the geeky side of me has won over the cautious once bitten twice from the...
  14. Top 20 SCCM Security Best Practices

    IT security isn’t just a problem—it’s a global crisis. Download this white paper and find out how Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) can help. We’ll share 20 best practices that will serve as a good starting point for administrators Continue reading...
  15. April 2018 security update release

    Today, we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. By default, Windows 10 receives these updates automatically, and for customers running previous versions, we recommend they turn on automatic updates as a best practice. More information about this...
  16. March 2018 security update release

    Today, we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. By default, Windows 10 receives these updates automatically, and for customers running previous versions, we recommend they turn on automatic updates as a best practice. More information about...
  17. February 2018 security update release

    Today, we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. By default, Windows 10 receives these updates automatically, and for customers running previous versions, we recommend they turn on automatic updates as a best practice. More information about...
  18. December 2017 security update release

    Today, we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. By default, Windows 10 receives these updates automatically, and for customers running previous versions, we recommend they turn on automatic updates as a best practice. More information about...
  19. Cybersecurity and Data Protection: Learning the New Rules

    Sponsored by: KeepItSafe - Date: Thursday, 12/14/17 at 2:00 PM EST Continue reading...
  20. November 2017 security update release

    Today, we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. By default, Windows 10 receives these updates automatically, and for customers running previous versions, we recommend they turn on automatic updates as a best practice. More information about...