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Announcing Launch of Cayosoft Guardian Forest Recovery
Cayosoft Launches Innovative, All-in-One Active Directory Recovery Software, Cayosoft Guardian Forest Recovery — A Single Solution for All Microsoft Directory Recovery Scenarios Including Immediate Full Forest Recovery, to Save Businesses from Costly Outages New Cayosoft solution delivers continuous change monitoring and immediate recovery for all for Active Directory (AD), hybrid

FBI & CISA Warning: ManageEngine Flaw Poses Serious Risk
APT Actors Exploit Vulnerability in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus Reports confirm a critical security vulnerability in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus, a self-service password management and single sign-on (SSO) tool for Active Directory environments, is actively being exploited. This newly discovered vulnerability, CVE-2021-40539, presents a critical authentication bypass risk that affects REST API

Credentials for Nearly 500,000 Fortinet VPN Users Leaked
Hackers Leak Passwords for Fortinet VPN Servers A list with nearly half a million Fortinet VPN user credentials, allegedly scraped from unprotected devices, is now being shared on hacker forums across the dark web. On Tuesday, a threat actor known as “Orange”, thought to be a member of the popular

New Microsoft Vulnerability, MSHTML RCE, Under Active Attack
Microsoft Alerts of New Zero-Day Flaw in Windows Microsoft released a security alert yesterday announcing a newly discovered flaw for a remote code execution (RCE) in MSHTML that is currently being exploited. MSHTML, also known as Trident, is a component used as a browser rendering engine for Microsoft Office documents.

Announcing Cayosoft Administrator v8.3 | See What’s New!
Cayosoft is excited to announce its newest version of Administrator! Purpose-built for hybrid Microsoft environments, Cayosoft provides advanced management functionality demanded by enterprises throughout their journey to the cloud. Our frequent updates and customer-focused development allows us to better serve our customers and provide timely, new features to help keep

New Pricing for Microsoft 365
New Commercial List Pricing for Office 365 Microsoft announced changes to their commercial pricing for Microsoft 365—the first substantive pricing update since the launch of Office 365 a decade ago. Microsoft says that this updated pricing reflects the increased value they have delivered to their customers over the past 10

New Find: Windows 365 Exposes Microsoft Azure Credentials In Plaintext
Windows 365 credentials can be dumped in plaintext On August 2nd, 2021, Microsoft launched their Windows 365 cloud-based desktop service, allowing users to rent Cloud PCs and access them via remote desktop clients or a browser. One of the lucky few who could get a free trial was Benjamin Delpy,

Thank Your SysAdmins – It’s System Administrator Appreciation Day!
Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day! System Administrator Appreciation Day, also known as SysAdmin Day, is an event created by System Administrator, Ted Kekatos. It all started when Kekatos saw a magazine advertisement in which a System Administrator was presented with flowers and fruit-baskets by grateful co-workers as thanks for installing

3rd Windows Print Spooler Critical Vulnerability Detected
Windows PrintNightmare Vulnerabilities & Exploits Continue At the end of June and earlier this month, Microsoft released a security update regarding a Windows Print Spooler critical vulnerability, now being called PrintNightmare. Their original guidance, CVE-2021-1675, was quickly met with backlash as patches released by Microsoft were reported to not fix

Microsoft Discovers New SolarWinds Flaw Under Attack
Microsoft Uncovers Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability & Zero-Day Exploit of SolarWinds Serv-U Product Microsoft recently alerted software company, SolarWinds, of a new vulnerability uncovered, providing proof of concept to the company last week. It was found in SolarWinds Serv-U product, in two IT management utilities used to manage remote

Thousands, Possibly Millions, of Businesses Affected by Latest Ransomware Attack
Kaseya Platform Targeted in Large-Scale Global Ransomware Attack Over the holiday weekend, notorious cybercrime group, REvil, successfully launched a ransomware attack targeting Managed Service Providers (MSPs). This unprecedented hack triggered an infection chain compromising a massive, global supply chain, with reports showing at least 1,000 businesses over 17 countries being

Defending Active Directory Against AdminSDHolder Attacks
Active Directory Permissions Attack: Hackers Gain Persistence with AdminSDHolder Active Directory (AD) tends to be a common target for hackers, as it controls the security and infrastructure for most IT systems. Attackers aim to get privileged access to a Windows Server Active Directory and remain undetected for as long as

New Microsoft Report Suggests Basic Authentication as Source of Business Email Compromise (BEC) Attacks
Microsoft Examines Basic Authentication’s Role in BEC Attacks In late 2019, Microsoft announced their intent to remove basic authentication from Exchange Online protocols. Though for many organizations using Microsoft 365, a combination of basic authentication and connection protocols, like POP3 and IMAP4, is still standard practice for accessing Exchange Online

New Fluid Office Documents from Microsoft Coming This Summer to Teams, OneNote, and More
Fluid Components Starting to Arrive in Microsoft Platforms Soon The biggest change to Microsoft’s Office documents in decades is coming to life soon, as the company’s Fluid framework arrives in Microsoft Teams, OneNote, Outlook, and Whiteboard. The future-facing concept of Fluid’s framework, introduced last year, allows for immediate sync of

Announcing Cayosoft Guardian v2.2 | See What’s New!
Cayosoft is excited to announce its newest version of Guardian! Cayosoft Guardian recovers and protects Azure Active Directory and hybrid Active Directory data. With Guardian monitoring all directory changes, administrators can quickly see, understand and rollback mistakes or malicious changes across their entire hybrid Active Directory environment. In our newest