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Microsoft is releasing out-of-band security updates for SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, following a warning that vulnerable versions were now under attack. If AMSI can't be enabled, Microsoft's advice is blunt: "We recommend you consider disconnecting your server from the internet until a …

  1. Paul Herber Silver badge

    Imagine a car manufacturer saying

    "If you own a <car brand> assume anyone can open any of the doors at any time. Do not leave your cat unattended."

    1. Lee D Silver badge

      There are models of car that have been very publicly vulnerable to USB/Bluetooth attacks to the point that the criminal fraternity targetted them explicitly and insurers started to refuse insurance for them.

      Doesn't make either situation any better, but modern life apparently now means "we don't give a damn, you've already paid us".

      1. Charlie Clark Silver badge

        There's a big difference, however: car manufacturers are subject to the laws of strict liability and have to arrange recalls and compensation. Software developers on the other hand…

    2. Gene Cash Silver badge

      Ah, so you haven't owned a Kia, then...

      1. Paul Herber Silver badge

        Yes, I have, and a cat, but that was a genuine typo (r and t are next each other on my kbd.)

        The Kia has gone.

  2. An_Old_Dog Silver badge

    Ah, SharePoint

    My upper management had a "joint" conference in which they all smoked the SharePoint-flavored weed.

    From then on, it was mandated that all technical docs be entered into our new SharePoint system. After a year and a half of various SharePoint-related troubles, people started going back to creating/using server-shared docs, management ignored their own mandate, and bumbled their way toward The Next Cool Thing.

  3. Omnipresent Silver badge

    I have to ask myself

    I'm hearing China is the big aggressor here, not a surprise. They have become increasingly more and more aggressive with their criminal activity. I have to ask myself tho, who's the bigger aggressor? China for their underhanded, spying thievery, or microsoft for stealing all your data and putting on the web to train their AI without a care.

  4. xyz Silver badge

    can someone please....

    shoot the bloody thing and bury it. I can't believe this POS I still lumbering about networks in 2025.

  5. CtrlAltDeleteCloud

    patches missed. backups next. and when that fails?

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