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dcontesti
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Microsoft - New steps to protect customers from hacking

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2019/03/27/new-steps-to-protect-customers-from-hacking/

 

Now if they could just fix their own software....just saying.

 

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Shannon
Community Champion

 

 

Phosphorus, Strontium --- I hope they aren't dedicated to targeting groups named after elements.

 

The hacks usually rely on the software having vulnerabilities, so they should fix those in parallel.

 

 

Shannon D'Cruz,
CISM, CISSP

www.linkedin.com/in/shannondcruz
Caute_cautim
Community Champion

It does show a different perspective, that Microsoft is actually taking some responsibility from a corporate view and investing in protecting the consumers. This is a major turn around from previous years. Trust is a very large factor these days - but given the very large discounts they give to Government accounts, and Education establishments they are on a very good wicket.

 

Regards

 

Caute_cautim

vt100
Community Champion

While I wholeheartedly agree that the efforts by Microsoft concerning security are welcome, some of those are misguided.

I am talking about Office 365 ATP SafeLinks.

Whoever got the bright idea of rewriting URLs in the messages by pre-pending them with "na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com." and using actual URL as a query, probably did not think how it would affect other security solutions.

 

rslade
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> Caute_cautim (Community Champion) posted a new reply in Tech Talk on 07-20-2019

> It does show a different perspective, that Microsoft is actually taking some
> responsibility from a corporate view and investing in protecting the consumers.

Q: So, given the current spate of security problems, you think Microsoft is
responsible?
A: Heaven, no! I think Microsoft is terribly *ir*responsible ...

(With apologies to "Beyond the Fringe" ...)

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