There seems to be no peace for IT administrators who have faced a new attack on their infrastructure these days. The QNAP storage are the target which, due to a vulnerability, CVE-2020-2509 and CVE-2020-36195, can allow malicious users to encrypt all user data with consequent ransom demand. The attack, called Qlocker, starts from a 7-zip […]
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Microsoft Local Administrator Password Solution: deployment and management
Questo articolo รจ disponibile anche in lingua italiana al seguente link: Microsoft Local Administrator Password Solution: implementazione e gestione | WindowServer.it Computer security goes through every single detail and clients are perhaps the aspect on which to focus the major forces, because they are more exposed and because they are used by users who ignore […]
Transport Layer Security 1.3: what’s new for security
In a previous article I’m talked about security and how to disable legacy protocols like TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1, in order to make our servers / clients more resistant to potential attacks. Clearly, the elimination of old standards calls for new ones and in fact in 2018, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) formalized […]
[Updated] – Disable legacy TLS and SSL in Windows Server
As you probably know, the PCI Council into one of their Data Security Standard (DSS) has banned all the legacy security protocol about HTTPS, like: TLS 1.0 TLS 1.1 SSL 2.0 SSL 3.0 Well TLS 1.0 and 1.1 was largely based on SSLv3. But these protocols are out-of-date that do not support modern cryptographic algorithms, […]
Goodbye Windows 7 and thank you for the fish!
Time is over guys! After 10 years, few of the most important Microsoft products are going in end of support. Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Exchange Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 are not more supported. From company prospect, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 were two of the most […]