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The network security tag on WindowsForum.com covers a range of topics relevant to protecting Windows and enterprise IT environments. Recent discussions include Microsoft Azure connectivity expansions, firmware updates for devices like Johnson Controls TL280, and enabling DNS over HTTPS in Windows 11. The tag also addresses data loss prevention with Microsoft Purview, incident response after cybersecurity events, and advisories from agencies like CISA and NCSC on hardening routers and networking devices. Common themes include securing network infrastructure, managing vulnerabilities, and using network telemetry for threat detection. Content is practical, focusing on configuration, updates, and best practices for administrators and IT professionals.
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    Equinix Expands Private Azure Links in Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta

    Equinix is extending Microsoft Azure connectivity for customers in Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta, according to Data Centre Magazine, giving enterprises in those metros another route into Azure through Equinix Fabric and Azure ExpressRoute. For organisations running Windows Server, Azure Arc, Azure...
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    CVE-2026-27871: Update Johnson Controls TL280 to 5.63

    Johnson Controls customers running TL280 Internet alarm communicators below firmware 5.63 should schedule an update and treat the device as a network-security priority, but the August 6 advisory leaves administrators with an unusually important uncertainty: its description says the flaw involves...
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    Enable DNS over HTTPS in Windows 11 Without Mistaking It for a VPN

    Windows 11’s built-in DNS over HTTPS setting can encrypt the domain-name lookups that would otherwise be visible to a local network operator or ISP—but it does not stop an ISP from “watching everything” a user does online. As reported by How-To Geek, the setting is available under Windows 11’s...
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    Microsoft Purview DLP Network Filtering GA Delayed to September 2026

    Microsoft has pushed back the general-availability release of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention integration with Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access Internet Access, a feature intended to block sensitive file transfers to unmanaged cloud services and generative AI platforms at the network...
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    Greene County Shuts Down Network After July 9 Cybersecurity Incident

    Greene County, Georgia, took its entire county computer network offline after detecting a cybersecurity incident on July 9, isolating all servers while contractors and specialist responders investigate and rebuild affected services. According to a Greene County Board of Commissioners release...
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    NCSC Warns: Centre 16 Exploits Weak Router SNMP Settings

    The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has urged operators in communications, defence, energy, finance, government and healthcare to harden routers immediately against an ongoing Russian intelligence campaign. Published on July 13 alongside 18 partner agencies from 12 countries, the advisory...
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    Vectra AI: Network Telemetry Improves Windows Threat Detection

    BankInfoSecurity has published an interview with Vectra AI President and CEO Hitesh Sheth arguing that network telemetry remains the most useful common source of truth for making security operations more predictive. Sheth’s argument is straightforward: endpoint, identity, cloud and SaaS tools...
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    AA26-194A: Block SNMP/TFTP and Disable Cisco Smart Install

    CISA, NSA, the FBI, and international partners are warning that Russian Federal Security Service Center 16 actors are exploiting poorly configured and vulnerable networking devices. Joint advisory AA26-194A specifically highlights abuse of Simple Network Management Protocol configuration-copy...
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    simplewall 3.8.7: Default-Deny Outbound Control for Windows

    MakeUseOf has highlighted simplewall, a free, open-source Windows network-control tool aimed at users who find Microsoft Defender Firewall’s advanced console too rule-centric for everyday outbound decisions. The appeal is straightforward: simplewall starts with the executable. Rather than...
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    Microsoft Edge Firewall Fix: Allow msedge.exe, Not Inbound

    Microsoft Edge usually should not be given a broad inbound Windows firewall exception for normal browsing. The safe fix is to keep Microsoft Defender Firewall on, then allow msedge.exe through Microsoft Defender Firewall only where a local rule, security app, or managed policy has actually...
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    CVE-2026-46331: Linux pedit net/sched Bug Fix Prevents Page Cache Corruption

    CVE-2026-46331 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, disclosed by kernel.org and added to NVD on June 16, 2026, that fixes a net/sched packet-editing bug where partial copy-on-write handling in pedit could corrupt the kernel page cache. The bug is narrow, deeply technical, and not yet...
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    CISA Warns: AVer PTC Cameras CVE-2026-40624 (CVSS 9.8) Can Enable Code Execution

    CISA published advisory ICSA-26-169-01 on June 18, 2026, warning that multiple AVer PTC camera models used worldwide in government, commercial, and healthcare environments are affected by CVE-2026-40624, a critical file and directory exposure vulnerability rated CVSS 9.8. The short version is...
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    Windows Server 2025 DNS over HTTPS: Encrypted Port 53 Resolution for Enterprises

    Windows Server 2025 gained production-ready DNS over HTTPS support for the Windows DNS Server service with Microsoft’s June 2026 security update, extending encrypted client-to-server DNS resolution to server environments that have long depended on clear-text port 53 traffic. That sounds like a...
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    Windows Server 2025 DNS Over HTTPS (DoH) GA: Encrypt Internal DNS Queries

    Microsoft has moved DNS over HTTPS for Windows Server 2025’s DNS Server role into general availability with the June 9, 2026 cumulative update, giving enterprises a supported way to encrypt DNS queries between Windows clients and their own internal resolvers. The change sounds narrow, but it...
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    Windows Server 2025 DNS over HTTPS (GA): Encrypt Internal Name Resolution

    Microsoft has made DNS over HTTPS support generally available for Windows DNS Server in Windows Server 2025 with the latest June 2026 Patch Tuesday updates, giving enterprise networks a Microsoft-supported way to encrypt DNS traffic between DoH-capable clients and their internal resolvers. The...
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    Share Wi-Fi Safely with Windows 11 QR Codes and Saved Network Details

    Share Wi-Fi Safely with Windows 11 QR Codes and Saved Network Details Difficulty: Beginner | Time Required: 10 minutes Sharing your Wi-Fi password does not have to mean reading a long passphrase out loud, texting it around, or peeling the label off the bottom of your router. Recent Windows 11...
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    CVE-2026-37457: FRRouting BGP FlowSpec Off-by-One DoS and Why Windows Teams Care

    CVE-2026-37457 is a high-severity denial-of-service flaw disclosed in May 2026 in FRRouting’s BGP FlowSpec handling, where a crafted FlowSpec component can trigger an off-by-one out-of-bounds write in bgp_flowspec_op_decode() within bgpd/bgp_flowspec_util.c. The bug is not a Windows...
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    CVE-2026-46102: Kernel Stream Parser Memory Leak Bug Fixed—DoS Risk

    Linux kernel maintainers disclosed CVE-2026-46102 on May 27, 2026, after fixing a stream parser bug in which aborted message assembly could leave a partially built socket buffer referenced and repeatedly leak memory. The flaw is not a flashy remote-code-execution headline, and NVD had not yet...
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    CVE-2026-46037: Linux IPv4 ICMP Extended Echo Reply OOB Lookup Fix Guide

    CVE-2026-46037 is a newly published Linux kernel flaw disclosed by kernel.org and NVD on May 27, 2026, affecting IPv4 ICMP handling where extended echo replies could drive an out-of-range lookup in the kernel’s icmp_pointers table before validation. The bug is small in code and large in...
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    CVE-2026-43496: Linux RED + QFQ Traffic-Control Bug Causes Kernel Panic

    CVE-2026-43496 is a newly published Linux kernel vulnerability, disclosed through kernel.org and added to NVD on May 21, 2026, that fixes a traffic-control crash in the RED queueing discipline when nested under schedulers such as TBF and paired with QFQ children. The bug is not a Windows...