In this article, I present a summary of the security best practices for Microsoft Exchange Server, directly inspired by the recommendations published by the NSA and CISA. These guidelines aim to strengthen the resilience of Exchange environments hosted in data centers — whether on-premises or hybrid — against current threats, including email account compromises and…
Microsoft’s October 2025 Patch Tuesday delivered fixes for 172 vulnerabilities across Windows and related products, including six zero-day flaws (vulnerabilities publicly disclosed or exploited before a patch was available). The updates also address eight “Critical” issues (five remote code execution and three elevation of privilege vulnerabilities) . Notably, this is the final Patch Tuesday that…
On September 9, 2025, Microsoft released security updates addressing over 80 vulnerabilities across Windows operating systems and related software (81 vulnerabilities were patched on this date). Notably, there were no actively exploited “zero-day” vulnerabilities in this month’s update bundle. However, two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities (zero-days) were fixed, meaning they were known to attackers or researchers…
