Episode 439 | Hacks, Crashes and the News

AC and CJ check in on recent news from the past week including another AWS outage, MS winning company of the year, Log4J hacks, Windows news, Azure Space & Teams encryption.

• MC303513: Anti-Malware policy - Quarantine notifications for the recipient
• MC302216: Security hardening change: Enforce policies for Trusted Documents

• Microsoft is Yahoo Finance’s Company of the Year 2021
• Right to repair: Microsoft offers Surface repair tools for technicians via iFixit
• Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
• Hackers start pushing malware in worldwide Log4Shell attacks
• Guidance for preventing, detecting, and hunting for CVE-2021-44228 Log4j 2 exploitation
• Windows Terminal as your Default Command Line Experience
• Microsoft redesigns Notepad for Windows 11
• End-to-end encryption for one-to-one Microsoft Teams calls now Generally Available
• New satellite connectivity and geospatial capabilities with Azure Space

AC’s Pick

• Saving the shuttle simulator—“It was an artifact that needed to be preserved”

CJ’s Pick

• NASA RETURNS HUBBLE TO FULL SCIENCE OPERATIONS