Microsoft has been enforcing hardening across Kerberos and Netlogon protocols, to protect against security vulnerabilities it discovered in 2021. Reminder for the upcoming Full Enforcement is out.
While security was by far the biggest complaint for customers, VPNs also caused some other headaches. Reliability for data recovery came in second, with 45% of respondents identifying it as an issue. The cost of the VPN equipment, its performance, and its manageability were all problems for users.
DH2i concluded the survey in summer 2020. Complaints about performance would likely have increased as people continued working from home, placing more stress on office VPN equipment.
Security is also likely to have become an even greater concern during the pandemic. Even before the COVID-19 outbreak, the world dealt with a bug in the Pulse Connect Secure VPN that left its servers vulnerable. Intelligence agencies warned about attacks exploiting this and other VPN flaws in October 2019.
City of Austin officials remained mostly mum Friday as to whether the city s network had been breached by hackers, declining to officially confirm whether a cyberattack had occurred or to provide any detail on the scope of the reported incident.
On Thursday, media reports surfaced that Russian hackers had breached the city s network. Austin officials said Thursday evening that they were working with federal authorities as part of this investigation and said the city s critical systems had not been affected.
City officials did not directly address most of the specifics from the report by online news outlet the Intercept, which cited unidentified sources in reporting that state-sponsored hackers believed to be from Russia have breached the city network.