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In a previous episode on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, I described how to get a list of antivirus engine and signatures versions for the hosts in your infrastructure using the Microsoft Graph API. But the problem remains. You know the versions that are currently installed on the hosts. But where can you get the latest […]

Hello everyone! This is a new episode with my comments on the latest Information Security news. Exchange ProxyShell I want to start with something about attacks on Exchange. ProxyShell is in the news, the LockFile ransomware compromised more than 2000 servers. On the other hand, there is basically nothing to say here. ProxyShell is the […]

Hello everyone! Yet another news episode. Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday Let’s start with Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday. I think the most interesting thing is that it contains a fix for the PetitPotam vulnerability. I talked about this vulnerability two weeks ago. At the time, Microsoft had no plans to release a patch because PetitPotam was […]

Hello everyone! In this episode, I would like to tell you how I tried to get automatically antivirus-related data (current status, engine and signature version, last full scan date) from Microsoft Defender for Endpoint using Microsoft Intune and the Graph API. Why is this necessary? You might assume that if the Defender for Endpoint agent […]

Hello everyone! Last Week’s Security News, August 1 – August 8. Black Hat Pwnie Awards Last week was more quiet than normal with Black Hat USA and DEF CON security conferences. I would like to start with the Pwnie Awards, which are held annually at Black Hat. It’s like an Oscar or Tony in the […]

Hello everyone! Last Week’s Security News, July 26 – August 1. Serious Sam in Metasploit Last week I talked about the Serious Sam vulnerability (CVE-2021-36934), also known as HiveNightmare. The name HiveNightmare comes from the fact that Windows stores its registry data in a small number of proprietary database files called hives. Due to mismanagement […]