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Microsoft Defender flagged legit URLs as malicious

TechSpot

Microsoft Defender is once again turning its "security" protection against legit features. This time, system administrators have been flooded with security warnings regarding legitimate URL links, which were "incorrectly" flagged as malicious by the Defender service. Read Entire Article

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Microsoft Defender update kills Start Menu shortcuts and program files on Windows

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Last Friday was a rather unlucky day for Windows users and system administrators worldwide. According to multiple reports, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint turned into a shortcut and file "killer" that fateful day, after the security suite began to delete application shortcuts from the Windows Taskbar and Start Menu, sometimes even.

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Future Windows versions will disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 by default, Microsoft confirms

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Microsoft is alerting users and system administrators that Windows will soon phase out support for older TLS specifications. will be disabled in upcoming Windows releases, as announced in the Windows message center. This change is only for future versions of Windows and newer Windows 11. Read Entire Article

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Microsoft extends brute-force attack protections to local Windows accounts

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As Microsoft works to implement a more secure Windows ecosystem, new security policies have become available for users and system administrators. The most recent policy concerns so called brute-force attacks, a tried and tested threat against the Windows account management subsystem.

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Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for February fixes 3 zero-day bugs and more

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Yesterday's Valentine's Day was a day for lovers, martyrs, and system administrators, as Microsoft released its monthly batch of security updates for Windows and other products. Read Entire Article

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Microsoft warns of Windows ‘PrintNightmare’ vulnerability that’s being actively exploited

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Microsoft is warning Windows users about an unpatched critical flaw in the Windows Print Spooler service. While Microsoft hasn’t rated the vulnerability, it allows attackers to remotely execute code with system-level privileges, which is as critical and problematic as you can get in Windows.

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Microsoft warns of critical Windows DNS Server vulnerability that’s ‘wormable’

The Verge

Microsoft is warning of a 17-year-old critical Windows DNS Server vulnerability that the company has classified as “wormable.” a principal security program manager at Microsoft. Researchers at Check Point discovered the security flaw in Windows DNS and reported it to Microsoft back in May. Image: Microsoft.

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