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Skype is dead

Skype is Dead; Long live Teams Like Thanos from Marvel’s Avengers, Teams is inevitable. Microsoft has been rather vocal about its intent to put to sleep Skype for Business Online (The Skype services hosted in Office 365). Even with the official deadline of July 31, 2021 Microsoft is pushing its…

Skype is Dead; Long live Teams Like Thanos from Marvel’s Avengers, Teams is inevitable. Microsoft has been rather vocal about its intent to put to sleep Skype for Business Online (The Skype services hosted in Office 365). Even with the official deadline of July 31, 2021 Microsoft is pushing its…

Life with YubiKey; Physical Security Tokens – It’s not there yet

Back in 2018 Google announced the Titan security key with overwhelming internal success. Since Microsoft hasn’t entered this market yet, we thought we’d give the leading 3rd party provider, YubiKey, a spin. YubiKey is a physical access token that plugs into the USB port of your computer. When a website…

Back in 2018 Google announced the Titan security key with overwhelming internal success. Since Microsoft hasn’t entered this market yet, we thought we’d give the leading 3rd party provider, YubiKey, a spin. YubiKey is a physical access token that plugs into the USB port of your computer. When a website…

Preparing for the AZ-103: Microsoft Azure Administrator Exam

In May 2019 Microsoft retired the two exams (AZ-100 & AZ-101) needed to achieve the Azure Administrator certification in favor of one condensed exam, AZ-103. At the time it seemed exciting that I only needed to pass one exam in order to be certified, but this also meant that there…

In May 2019 Microsoft retired the two exams (AZ-100 & AZ-101) needed to achieve the Azure Administrator certification in favor of one condensed exam, AZ-103. At the time it seemed exciting that I only needed to pass one exam in order to be certified, but this also meant that there…

Office 365 & MFA Bypass – Security hole for the sake of legacy support?

Recently there was an article published by Proofpoint (LINK) that discovered a security hole, for the sake of legacy email protocols, in Office 365’s MFA (And G-Suite for that matter). When using the legacy email protocols of IMAP or POP users (hackers) are not prompted for MFA and therefore can…

Recently there was an article published by Proofpoint (LINK) that discovered a security hole, for the sake of legacy email protocols, in Office 365’s MFA (And G-Suite for that matter). When using the legacy email protocols of IMAP or POP users (hackers) are not prompted for MFA and therefore can…

Custom Background with Office 365 login portal

Here’s a security tip that you can implement in just a couple minutes that will help protect your Office 365 environments from phishing attacks. The attack looks like this: A scammer sends your users an email that looks like something from Microsoft, asking them to log in (using their login…

Here’s a security tip that you can implement in just a couple minutes that will help protect your Office 365 environments from phishing attacks. The attack looks like this: A scammer sends your users an email that looks like something from Microsoft, asking them to log in (using their login…

Spoofed email warnings with Office 365

What should I look out for? In our previous Office 365 post we covered how to close the authentication security gap (LINK) due to malicious attackers using known good credentials which could have been scraped from spoofed emails attacks. Commonly, successful attacks come from messages that appear to be coming…

What should I look out for? In our previous Office 365 post we covered how to close the authentication security gap (LINK) due to malicious attackers using known good credentials which could have been scraped from spoofed emails attacks. Commonly, successful attacks come from messages that appear to be coming…