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Today we would like to wish one of NNT's Founders a Happy Birthday. Not only does he coach, teach and mentor; he provides purpose direction and motivation for staff and peers alike. For over 21 years he has been dedicated to "Moving business forward" In this picture here you can see him, coaching others to accomplish tasks in a timely manner.

Happy Birthday!

Microsoft says Russian group behind SolarWinds attack now targeting IT supply chain:

Microsoft says Russian group behind SolarWinds attack now targeting IT supply chain Microsoft on Monday warned that the same Russian group behind the SolarWinds cyber attack in 2020 has been attempting to “replicate” that approach, now targeting organizations “integral” to the global IT supply chain — specifically resellers and technology service providers.

Here is Facebook's Update to the October 4th outage

Update about the October 4th outage To those around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms.

Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet

Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something else more serious was going on.

NNT Solutions - Security awareness letter

Good Evening, I am David from NNT Solutions. We hope this note finds you doing well.

As your partner in cyber security and safety, we wanted to make you aware of an advisory that was put out this week by the FBI and CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency). The advisory (linked below) does not reference any specific future cyber threat, rather it speaks to the general increased potential for ransomware attacks over holiday weekends.

The advisory provides both immediate and longer-term actions organizations can take to protect against the rise in ransomware, with links to further information intended to protect both your systems and data and those of your customers. Some of these near-term actions include:
• Making an offline backup of your data
• Avoiding clicking on suspicious links
• Updating OS and software
• Using strong passwords

Please note, we are sharing this information only because we are your partner in the fight against cybercrime. The measures noted above and in the advisory are good general recommendations to employ no matter the systems you run and are not specific to the solutions provided by NNT.

NNT and its partners invest heavily in delivering the highly secure products, services, and 24/7 system monitoring that you’ve come to expect, and this investment extends to communications such as this which are meant to serve as another layer of defense against cybercrime.

Please be safe and have a great holiday weekend.

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2021/08/31/fbi-cisa-advisory-ransomware-awareness-holidays-and-weekends
Thank you,

DAVID WHITE - MCP
Business Specialist & Solutions Engineer

FBI-CISA Advisory on Ransomware Awareness for Holidays and Weekends | CISA Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and CISA released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to urge organizations to ensure they protect themselves against ransomware attacks during holidays and weekends—when offices are normally closed.

Update to users using Kaseya: New Ransomware Attack!

New ransomware attack by REvil targets IT vendor Kaseya US cyber officials are tracking a major new ransomware attack by the same group that hit meat supplier JBS Foods this spring.

New Vulnerabilities with On-Premise Exchange Servers

A new series of vulnerabilities have been identified by Microsoft and other information security entities, and are associated with on-premise versions of Microsoft Exchange servers version 2013 and later. It’s important to note that unlike the Exchange vulnerabilities discovered last month, which were already being exploited by the Hafnium group, these vulnerabilities do not yet appear to have been exploited in the wild.

If you are a client with on-premise Exchange servers and you have contracted with us to manage patching, then we will be contacting you shortly to schedule deployment of these patches during an appropriate period. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your service delivery manager.

If you are not contracted for managed patching, but you do have on-premise exchange servers, we recommend you identify a maintenance window in the coming days and apply the new round of April patches. It’s only a matter of time before attackers begin trying to exploit these systems.

As more information is developed we will adapt our detection and response tools to notify us in cases when these exploits are detected.

Additional Resources:
Microsoft’s April 2021 Security Response Center Blog:
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2021/04/13/april-2021-update-tuesday-packages-now-available/

Microsoft’s April 2021 Exchange Server Security Update Blog:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/released-april-2021-exchange-server-security-updates/ba-p/2254617

Ask us how to update and migrate your On-Premise Exchange to a Hosted Exchange Solution

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Released: April 2021 Exchange Server Security Updates Microsoft has released security updates for vulnerabilities found in: Exchange Server 2013 Exchange Server 2016 Exchange Server 2019 These updates are available for the following specific builds of Exchange Server: IMPORTANT: If manually installing security updates, you must install .msp from eleva....

Updates and password changes should be part of your normal security updates. If you havent updated them in a while you should do so.

Data from 500M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale Online Like the Facebook incident earlier this week, the information — including user profile IDs, email addresses and other PII — was scraped from the social-media platform.

Microsoft Apologizes ‘Deeply’ For Worldwide Azure, Teams Outage

Microsoft Apologizes ‘Deeply’ For Worldwide Azure, Teams Outage Microsoft on Tuesday apologized for a worldwide outage that impacted Azure cloud services including Microsoft Teams, Office 365 and Dynamics 365.

Dear NNT Partners

Last week, it was widely reported that four previously unknown or “zero-day” vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Exchange Server software were being actively exploited by cyber attackers suspected to be associated with a foreign government. These defects could allow attackers to steal data or deploy malicious software to unpatched Exchange Servers.

Our Hosted Exchange Services Team began applying patches to address these vulnerabilities immediately after Microsoft made them available. In parallel, with the help of one of the cybersecurity firms credited with discovering these defects, our security team began looking for evidence as to whether we were affected. We can report that, to date, we see no evidence that these Exchange vulnerabilities have led to any unauthorized access to our Hosted Exchange Services’ or your hosted Microsoft Exchange systems, applications, or data.

The security and availability of your data is our highest priority, and to that end we employ advanced threat detection technologies across our infrastructure that help us detect and block cyber-attacks. We monitor our systems around the clock both with our own dedicated global security personnel along with trusted security partners, and our operations team quickly applies critical security patches when they become available.
Any further patches that are released will be promptly applied by our team. There is no action you need to take at this time.
Thank you all for being a NNT Partner.

Sincerely,

DAVID WHITE - MCP
Business Specialist & Solutions Engineer
NNT SOLUTIONS - A Microsoft Certified Partner & Certified Small Business Specialist

This week we celebrated our 20th anniversary of the day we opened NNT Solutions. This week we celebrate our loyal customers and our new ones that continue to put their trust and faith in to our services. We are beyond grateful for your business over these last 20 years. Because of you and God we get to continue to do what we love for years to come. Continue to pray for us and thanks be to God!

Steven Moore | CEO
NNT Solutions