The much awaited Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 are here. If you’re a sysadmin, you probably know what this means for you: a week full of testing and deploying updates and troubleshooting patch failures, and then another week or so of waiting for hotfixes to mend issues in patches that were already released […]
“File Deletion” Alert Becomes the Latest Scam to Compromise Office 365 Credentials
Attackers use simple cause for concern as the basis of a scam intent on tricking victims into offering up their Office 365 credentials. A very official-looking email is making the rounds, taking advantage of the approximately 50% of companies today using Office 365. And it’s not surprising, as Microsoft is the most impersonated brand in […]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday June 2019: 88 vulnerabilities to fix, but how?
Every Patch Tuesday is a nightmare for IT admins, loading them with a bundle of updates, leaving them no respite for the rest of the week. This June Patch Tuesday is no exception, with a huge amount of patches released to address 88 vulnerabilities in supported Windows operating systems and related applications. Of these updates, […]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019
Microsoft today released its May 2019 software updates to address a total of 79 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other products. Of these latest updates, 18 are rated critical. This month’s Patch Tuesday from Microsoft also addresses two vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited. Patch Tuesday updates for Microsoft products This month’s Patch […]
Single sign-on (SSO) for the cloud
Nearly every organization has some cloud-based application. Of course the common cloud apps include Microsoft Azure, Office 365, G Suite, those from Zoho and Salesforce, and more. As administrators, we want to make our jobs more efficient and we also want to reduce the load on our users whenever possible. Now with ADSelfService Plus, you […]
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Q1 2019 Top-Clicked Phishing Email Subjects from KnowBe4 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Every quarter, KnowBe4 reports on the top-clicked phishing emails by subject lines in three categories: Social, General, and ‘In the Wild’. The latter category results come from the millions of users that click on our Phish Alert Button to report real phishing emails and allow our team to analyze the results. Social Media Is Now […]
KPIs to monitor for optimal SQL Server performance
As you may know, Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Microsoft. Several industries rely on SQL database servers for data storage and access because it supports a wide range of transaction processing, business intelligence, and analytics applications in corporate IT environments. To have a fine-tuned SQL Server system, a […]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for December 2018
Another month and another Patch Tuesday update from Microsoft. But this month, the buzz is all about a third-party patch from Adobe that addresses a zero-day vulnerability. This vulnerability (CVE-2018-15982) is rated critical since it’s being actively exploited in the wild. It’s said that this vulnerability allows a maliciously crafted Flash object to execute code […]
Account lockout and management tools
Sometimes, when you get a call regarding a password reset, you can already guess who it’s from. Most organizations have one—that one employee who somehow manages to forget their password and gets locked out of their account more than everyone else. So you reset this forgetful user’s password, and sure enough, five minutes later they […]
Dutch audit finds Microsoft Office leaks confidential data
The diagnostics Microsoft Office collects from users should be a source of concern for any government CISO, according to a DPIA audit ComputerWeekly reported: “A report commissioned by the Dutch government has recommended disabling any settings in Microsoft Office 2016 that sends data to Microsoft servers. Dutch government users have also been advised to consider […]