This article describes the protection against the publicly disclosed Secure Boot security feature bypass that uses the BlackLotus UEFI bootkit tracked by CVE-2023-24932, how to enable the mitigations, and guidance on bootable media. A bootkit is a malicious program that is designed to load as early as possible in a devices boot sequence to ...

Microsoft is aware that some customers are running versions of Windows that no longer receive mainstream support. That means those customers will not have received any security updates to protect their systems from CVE-2019-0708, which is a critical remote code execution vulnerability.

You may have explicitly defined encryption types on your user accounts that are vulnerable to CVE-2022-37966. Look for accounts where DES / RC4 is explicitly enabled but not AES using the following Active Directory query:

If your system is asking you for your BitLocker recovery key, the following information may help you locate your recovery key and understand why you're being asked to provide it. Important: Microsoft support is unable to provide, or recreate, a lost BitLocker recovery key.

Summary. CVE-2021-42287 addresses a security bypass vulnerability that affects the Kerberos Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) and allows potential attackers to impersonate domain controllers. To exploit this vulnerability, a compromised domain account might cause the Key Distribution Center (KDC) to create a service ticket with a higher ...

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To enable mitigations for CVE-2018-3639 (Speculative Store Bypass), default mitigations for CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre Variant 2) and CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown): reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v FeatureSettingsOverride /t REG_DWORD /d 8 /f

How to open PC Health Check. In Windows, use Search on the taskbar to search for “PC Health Check,” then select it from the list of results. If a PC Health Check update is available, you can quickly install it for the latest version.

This update fixes a vulnerability where the user of the process can spoof the signature to bypass PAC signature validation security checks added in KB5020805: How to manage Kerberos protocol changes related to CVE-2022-37967. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, visit CVE-2024-26248 and CVE-2024-29056.

Protect your Android, iPhone, Mac, and Windows devices from threats by installing Microsoft Defender. Download Microsoft Defender on your devices either by: Scanning the following QR code. Searching for Microsoft Defender in your app store. Sharing with your devices, the following link: Copy link.