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When it comes to the security of YOUR home and small business PCs, you must rely on something other than a dedicated IT team like large corporations do. The responsibility falls on your shoulders, making prioritizing security from the outset essential. Waiting until after a catastrophic incident is too late. We created this guide to help you establish a strong security baseline and proactively tackle the most critical issues. This comprehensive guide goes beyond the Windows 11 operating system itself.

Chinese hackers use DNS-over-HTTPS for Linux malware communication, a new Golang-based Skuld malware strand steals Discord and browser data from Windows PCs, and a massive phishing campaign uses 6,000 sites to impersonate brands.

This announcement presents customers with two choices: Stay on Windows 10 for the time being, or begin planning for an enterprise-wide upgrade to Windows 11. For customers that rely on Microsoft to protect their attack surfaces, migrating operating systems isn’t only an IT decision — it’s also a security decision. Microsoft security features, including Microsoft Defender, are delivered as built-in components of Microsoft operating systems.

Attackers use a variety of tactics to spread laterally across on-premises Windows machines, including Pass-the-Ticket, Pass-the-Hash, Overpass-the-Hash and Golden Tickets attacks. But similar techniques are also effective in moving laterally from a compromised workstation to connected cloud resources, bypassing strong authentication measures like MFA. This article explains how attackers can perform lateral movement to the cloud with an attack called Pass-the-PRT.

The compromise of a single Active Directory credential can lead to unauthorized access to your servers, applications, virtualization platforms and user files across your enterprise. One of the reasons for credential vulnerability is that Windows stores credentials in the Local Security Authority (LSA), which is a process in memory.