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itpirate.bsky.social
Alex Benoit
@itpirate.bsky.social
🌊 be water, my friend 🌊
Microsoft Regional Director, MVP IT-Security, Certified Ethical Hacker
☠️Pirate☠️

https://www.water-security.de
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The 2nd ever BlueHat India in Hyderabad will take place May 14-15 and the CFP is now open! This is your chance to showcase research in the vuln and mitigation space, emerging threats and techniques, new and novel research findings, Submit by March 14: microsoft.com/bluehat.

#BlueHatIndia #BlueHat
BlueHat | Microsoft
Microsoft BlueHat - Bringing offensive and defensive cyber security professionals together to address modern threats.
microsoft.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Defender for Identity now has an API

▫️List of sensors
▫️Update sensor settings
▫️Get a deployment package
▫️Get the access key
▫️Update the access key
▫️Delete a sensor
Introducing the new Defender for Identity sensor management API | Microsoft Community Hub
Learn more about the new Microsoft Defender for Identity sensor management API.
techcommunity.microsoft.com
January 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Reposted by Alex Benoit
Adding to my ETW research toolkit, a tiny program to consume information from a provider with as little overhead as possible.

PockETWatcher, a tool to get the essential information from a ETW provider to the CLI or a JSON file

github.com/olafhartong/...
GitHub - olafhartong/PockETWatcher: a tiny program to consume an ETW trace for research
a tiny program to consume an ETW trace for research - olafhartong/PockETWatcher
github.com
January 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
#MSIgnite Vibes People! Ready for day 3!
#mvpbuzz
November 21, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Reposted by Alex Benoit
Microsoft Security Exposure Management is now GA with some neat features

Attack Path Analysis with support for
◻️DACL
◻️Hybrid Attack Paths
and also #uRBAC support

#Ignite #XDR

https://buff.ly/3ZeN91K
November 19, 2024 at 3:58 PM
I can only support this post and say, it’s a top recent threat that we‘re seeing in our Security Operations Center (#soc). Employees get spammed by mailbombs or team messages followed by a supposedly support call by #BlackBasta actors.

www-bleepingcomputer-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.blee...
Black Basta ransomware poses as IT support on Microsoft Teams to breach networks
The BlackBasta ransomware operation has moved its social engineering attacks to Microsoft Teams, posing as corporate help desks contacting employees to assist them with an ongoing spam attack.
www-bleepingcomputer-com.cdn.ampproject.org
November 15, 2024 at 6:51 AM
Our latest Episode of Talking Cybersecurity: 'Enter Microsoft’s New Entra Suite: 3 Real-Life Use Cases' 

🔍 Ever wondered how Entra SSE, Private Access, and Internet Access come together to create a seamless security solution?

youtu.be/t6kxHPsm4VQ
Enter Microsoft's New Entra Suite: 3 Real-Life Use Cases | Talking Cyber Security Webinar
YouTube video by water IT Security & Defense
youtu.be
November 14, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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I see many accounts with an invalid handle on Bluesky. Apparently, if you configure your custom domain as the handle, the TXT record should not be deleted after the domain has been verified, otherwise the handle becomes invalid.💡🦋
November 14, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Another #TrustInTech is around the corner. Looking forward to Stephan Rosche and Raimar Melchior from XM Cyber.

Sign up here: meetu.ps/e/MLQWk/xHZ1...
February 20, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Attention all cyber defenders! Sharpen your defenses with the latest findings from the #Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2023. Join our #webinar and level up your cybersecurity game.

Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

#CyberDefenders #ThreatIntel
November 25, 2023 at 6:27 PM