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pixel16on Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws

this doesnt work if they use a 3rd party email filtering service like mimecast or proofpoint fyi.

pixel16on Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_cra...

You mean the same issues that Linux also faced?

Windows 10 is EOl next year. I would bet your company has plans to move to 11 at some point in the near future. I work with customers daily to help to move to 11

pixel16on LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud

This is not true. Microsoft uses teams heavily internally. Zoom slack and others banned unless it's a customer requirement

Source: msft employee

pixel16on Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”

This will depend on if your org will use conditional access or not. CA policies will generally kill non modern auth protocols like imap and pop3.

pixel16on Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%

Microsoft now blocks non edge browsers with conditional access policies.

pixel16on Migrating 1 terabyte of files from OneDrive to Nextcloud

This sounds like College IT is using Known folder redirection to have files backed up seamlessly to Onedrive.

Source: Msft Employee

pixel16on Okta and Auth0 Blocking Cuba, Iran, N Korea, Syria, Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk

Bill nelson ran against Rick scott not charlie christ.

pixel16on Windows Update vs. My Router

FYI windows update for business is now a thing

And it uses direct public access to microsofts cdn to push updates set via polices in intune or memcm. It could be the case here and it's usually used by msft customers to avoid clogging vpn with patching bandwidth

Source:

Msft employee

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/w...

pixel16on Ask HN: If not fresh out of college, what did you do to join a FAANG?

Started out has a contractor for one. And then was eventually converted to an fte after two years.

pixel16on Google Workspace for everyone

FYI ADFS is now going the way of the dodo and being replaced by AAD which does what Okta and Auth0 do already.

pixel16on Adobe has released the last Flash update ever

Silver light is eol next year

pixel16on Coming soon: Google Fiber 2 Gig

This isn't true for spectrum or Comcast. Both uss fttn nowadays.

pixel16on Big Sur is both 10.16 and 11.0

FYI it's still microsoft intune. Endpoint manager is the just portal for unifying sccm and intune.

Source: Microsoft Employee

pixel16on PayPal and Venmo are still letting SIM swappers hijack accounts

Both usaa and navy fed allow this as well as schwab.

pixel16on Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exploit, Microsoft warns

Graphics hasn't been kernel mode since the Vista days FYI. It's now in userspace.

pixel16on GE freezes pension benefits for 20k employees

Microsoft does a 50% unlimited match up to the irs cap FYI.