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The move to remove PowerShell 2.0 from Windows 11 is strategic and long overdue. Microsoft is making this move to embrace modern, secure, and efficient system tools. PowerShell 2.0 has many inherent security issues tied to the deprecated framework and its reliance on deprecated encryption & validation protocols.

Streamlining Upgrades and ESU Management with Tanium.

If you’ve been doing digital forensics, detection engineering, or threat hunting for some time, you already know how essential Windows event logs are for spotting malicious activities. Although Windows’ default logging has improved over the years, it still falls short of delivering the depth of visibility needed to catch sophisticated threats. That’s where Windows Advanced Audit Policies come into play. It offers additional, high-value events that are crucial for detection and hunting.

Connecting all your company resources in a network for sharing is valuable, but you need a way to verify that only authorized users and devices can access these resources. Authentication serves this purpose by providing methods for users and devices to prove their identity. In Windows environments, two main authentication protocols are used: NTLM (New Technology LAN Manager) and Kerberos. In this article we will discuss NTLM vs Kerberos and show why it is important to implement Kerberos if possible.

The newly found Windows shortcut vulnerability is now being actively exploited by state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors to execute covert malicious commands. According to new research conducted by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), the vulnerability, designated as ZDI-CAN-25373, is now being exploited by Chinese, Iranian, North Korean, and Russian threat actors for worldwide cyber espionage and data theft.