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Andrew Cooper
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Information Security and EUC Professional | #CISSP | MSc Cyber Security | Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert | Formerly #CCE-V
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Some people, when confronted with the problem of managing Azure Virtual Desktop, think "I'll use Configuration Manager". Now they have two problems
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Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
www.citationneeded.news
July 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Incredibly Citrix are still not letting people know about active exploitation of this vulnerability and no commenting on it to media... despite there being evidence of active exploitation. arstechnica.com/security/202...
Critical CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability has been under active exploit for weeks
Exploits allow hackers to bypass 2FA and commandeer vulnerable devices.
arstechnica.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes
theonion.com/study-9...
July 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Great free AI security resource from Microsoft here, with labs!
Do you want to learn how to red team AI? Of course you do! The amazing @nmspinach.bsky.social and Gary have recorded their AI red team 101 training for you to enjoy! You can then use our AI red team labs to practice what you learned.

aka.ms/AIRT101

youtu.be/DwFVhFdD2fs?...
AI Red Teaming 101 – Full Course (Episodes 1-10)
YouTube video by Microsoft Developer
youtu.be
July 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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AI voice clones have hit the White House AGAIN, now impersonating the Secretary of State to other Gov officials to try to steal secrets/access.
Here is a video of me live demoing how quick (2 min) and easy it is to clone a voice to hack and how to catch AI voice clone attacks in action!
July 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
An interesting development in the world of AVD! Hydra has a lot of promise and does some of the core management tasks well. Looking forward to see where #LoginVSI goes with it
🚨 Big news: #LoginVSI has acquired Hydra! 🚀

We’re making AVD management simpler & more affordable with image mgmt, auto-scaling, user tools & more—now powered by our performance testing expertise.

Check us out: euc.loginvsi.com/hydra-by-log...
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May 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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PLEASE RT: New and Free Active Directory Domain Services Applied Skill Credential
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New and Free Active Directory Domain Services Applied Skill Credential | Microsoft Community Hub
Learn about the new Active Directory Applied Skills Credential from Microsoft.  
techcommunity.microsoft.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I stumbled upon these two tearjerking 😢 videos from Ignite 2017 (I think) on the history and love of #ConfigMgr over the years. Lots of familiar faces. Well worth the watch!

ConfigMgr @ 25 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnhn...
The Peoples History of ConfigMgr - www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKxv...
www.youtube.com
March 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Grammarly and UI Automation applications are commonly the cause of hard-to-diagnose problems - years after @swiftonsecurity.com's tweet we've identified Grammarly as the root cause behind Remote Desktop Manager instability, after a long investigation: forum.devolutions.net/topics/43305...
March 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Hacks followed deep cost-cutting after the private equity buyout of remote-working tech company Citrix.

Now the architect of that strategy is working on Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency team.

Read the Big Take ⤵️
Musk DOGE Pick Led Cybersecurity Cuts at Citrix. Hacks Followed
Tech CEO Tom Krause dismissed engineers and slashed expenses after the remote-work company’s leveraged buyout. His company says defenses improved. Now he’s consulting at the US Treasury.
trib.al
February 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Everything that’s wrong about modern web browsers in a single image
January 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
BBC Scotland showing a repeat Hogmanay fireworks is something else. Maybe have a live show next year. Happy new year!
January 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Microsoft just released a tool that lets you convert Office files to Markdown. Never thought I'd see the day.

Google also added Markdown export to Google Docs a few months ago.

github.com/microsoft/markitdown
GitHub - microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. - microsoft/markitdown
github.com
December 13, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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ICYMI - Here's a landing page to see the removed and deprecated features for #ConfigMgr

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/co...
Deprecated features - Configuration Manager
Learn about the features that Configuration Manager no longer supports.
learn.microsoft.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:06 AM
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Almost embarrassed to post this, but I've always used Fiddler or Burp for capturing things like this...

I didn't have admin rights and was trying to capture network traffic from a pop-up, so Dev Tools wasn't working

Apparently this is built into Chrome/Edge! So cool :)

edge://net-export/
November 17, 2024 at 6:49 AM
Some people, when confronted with the problem of managing Azure Virtual Desktop, think "I'll use Configuration Manager". Now they have two problems
November 16, 2024 at 10:47 PM