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2020-2021 were unusually rough in the information security field. The pandemic accelerated the pace of discovering new attack techniques and the attacker’s motivation was high due to the potential impact of each attack. In addition, work methodologies that have changed led to the exposure of new vulnerabilities and an increase in the organizational attack surface.

In order to maintain the integrity of a Windows file system, File Integrity Monitoring is applied to ensure no unauthorized changes are made to files, folders or configuration settings.

Windows 11 is the most secure Windows version to date. Microsoft's new operating system is now available, after learning several lessons from its predecessor. The Redmond company states that the widespread use of hybrid and remote work environments during the pandemic opened the door to a host of threats, with Windows vulnerabilities exploited by hackers, such as the incidents with Specter and Meltdown.

Windows 10 is probably the most used Operating System (OS) in organizations these days. The fact that every level of user in the organization, from IT experts to entities that has little knowledge in cybersecurity use it, it is prone to be targeted by attackers as a gate to the entire network. A lot of attention is invested in users’ behavior and phishing campaigns, while many risks hide in the OS itself.

Windows 11 was released on October 5, 2021. It has several new installation requirements including, most notably, Secure Boot and a Trusted Platform Module. These features can provide a more secure computing environment, but if you need to virtualize a Windows 11 environment, you will need virtualization software that supports this.

There are many cases where you will need to restrict your file or folder security to yourself or a certain group of users. Like, you can assign a specific folder in your computer where your home users can access music, images, or videos, or at the workplace to access work files, documents, or more, but you want to restrict the access permissions of users only to that group of files or folders, not your whole computer system.

Read how our red team used different attack techniques to hack AppLocker restrictions by implementing escalated privileges and reusing the Credentials Manager to extract stored data and Azure information.

In a security advisory, Microsoft has warned that malicious hackers are exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Windows to launch targeted attacks against organisations. The security hole, dubbed CVE-2021-40444, is a previously unknown remote code execution vulnerability in MSHTML, a core component of Windows which helps render web-based content. According to Microsoft, attacks exploiting the vulnerability have targeted companies via boobytrapped Microsoft Office documents.