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Microsoft collaborates with Tenable to support federal cybersecurity efforts

In the spirit of the executive order and as part of our commitment to enhancing cybersecurity across the US, we today announce that Tenable has expanded its collaboration with the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA). Together, Microsoft and Tenable will help enhance the US government’s ability to quickly identify, investigate, prioritize, and remediate threats—and help collectively raise the country’s security posture.
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Using Python to unearth a goldmine of threat intelligence from leaked chat logs

Dealing with a great amount of data can be time consuming, thus using Python can be very powerful to help analysts sort information and extract the most relevant data for their investigation. The open-source tools library, MSTICpy, for example, is a Python tool dedicated to threat intelligence. It aims to help threat analysts acquire, enrich, analyze, and visualize data.
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Secure access for a connected world—meet Microsoft Entra

Identity is not just about directories, and access is not just about the network. Security challenges have become much broader, so we need broader solutions. We need to secure access for every customer, partner, and employee—and for every microservice, sensor, network, device, and database.
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Detecting and preventing privilege escalation attacks leveraging Kerberos relaying (KrbRelayUp)

The privilege escalation hacking tool KrbRelayUp is a wrapper that can streamline the use of some features in Rubeus, KrbRelay, SCMUACBypass, PowerMad/ SharpMad, Whisker, and ADCSPwn tools in attacks. Although this attack won’t function for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) joined devices, hybrid joined devices with on-premises domain controllers remain vulnerable.
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Anatomy of a DDoS amplification attack

Amplification attacks are one of the most common distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack vectors. These attacks are typically categorized as flooding or volumetric attacks, where the attacker succeeds in generating more traffic than the target can process, resulting in exhausting its resources due to the amount of traffic it receives.
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