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Last week, Microsoft disrupted a Vietnam-based threat group called Storm-1152. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) gained control of the domains used by the group to sell millions of fraudulent Microsoft accounts to other cybercriminals. The DCU team has obtained a court order from the Southern District of New York to take down the US-based digital…

Microsoft recently acknowledged an issue where the HP Smart App was being installed, and printers were getting renamed on Windows 11 and Windows 10 PCs. Now, the company has released the Microsoft Printer Metadata Troubleshooter Tool, providing an easy solution for affected users to fix the printer bug on their Windows devices. Last month, many…

Microsoft has detailed its efforts to enable phishing-resistant authentication methods for organizations. The company is implementing several security features, including device-bound passkeys, FIDO2 support for iOS and macOS apps, and Certificate-Based Authentication updates, to enhance the overall protection for all Entra ID customers. Microsoft has announced that it will soon introduce a new feature for…

Microsoft has decided to discontinue support for the legacy chat messaging infrastructure in Microsoft Teams. This change will go into effect in March 2024, and users are advised to update their Teams client to avoid any potential communication issues caused by using older versions. Microsoft Teams users who continue to use a version older than…

Windows allows users to assign permissions to files and folders, for added security and to control which users can perform specific actions on files and folders. Learn all you need to know about basic permissions, folder permissions, user permissions, explicit permissions, and much more. What are NTFS permissions? NTFS permissions, first introduced with Microsoft Windows…

Microsoft has announced several new features for its Entra Permissions Management service. The cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) tool enables organizations to effectively monitor and control permissions for various identities and resources across different cloud services. Microsoft Entra Permissions Management is getting a new ServiceNow integration that will let organizations manage their multi-cloud permissions. It…

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Intel showing off its new “Meteor Lake” Core Ultra mobile CPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) arriving on laptops, and changes to the desktop.

Microsoft has started rolling out a new OneDrive app to replace the existing Files app in the new Microsoft Teams client. This new OneDrive experience aims to streamline file storage, organization, and retrieval for users across Microsoft 365. “The OneDrive app will soon replace the Files app in Teams, giving you consistent and familiar file…

In the ever-changing world of IT, aligning strategic objectives with evolving user needs and business goals is a formidable challenge, especially in large, multifaceted organizations. In a recent interview on Petri’s UnplugIT podcast, Tim Aberle, a principal IT architect at a Fortune 500 entertainment company, shed light on this intricate process. The insights he provided…

Microsoft has detailed new features and capabilities added to its Entra certificate-based authentication (CBA) since its launch in October 2023. The company highlighted support for three additional username bindings, CBA affinity binding, CBA as Most Recently Used (MRU), and various other improvements. Microsoft Entra certificate-based authentication (CBA) helps organizations configure phishing-resistant MFA that complies with…

Microsoft has issued a warning about cybercriminals exploiting OAuth for automated financial cyberattacks. The Threat Intelligence team has identified that threat actors are creating malicious OAuth apps to carry out password spraying, phishing, and crypto mining activities. OAuth (Open Authorization) is an open standard designed to offer secure third-party access to user resources on a…

Microsoft has introduced Run Command support in public preview for Azure Arc-enabled servers. This new feature enables administrators to remotely execute scripts on Azure Arc-enabled servers with the Connected Machine agent. Azure Arc-enabled servers enable IT administrators to manage Windows and Linux physical servers hosted outside of Azure, whether on corporate networks or in other…