by Scott Muniz | Jan 15, 2021 | Security
This article was originally posted by the FTC. See the original article here.
Scammers are at it again, pretending to be from a government agency to rip people off. Here’s what you need to know about the latest coronavirus relief fund scam.
You get an email that looks to be from Joe Simons of the Federal Trade Commission. It says you’re getting coronavirus relief money. The email includes a fake certificate to make you think the money is real.
If you reply, they say you have to pay taxes before you get your money. They may include a fake letter from the IRS, like this one, to convince you.
If you pay, they say you must pay the State Department for a certificate that proves the funds are not related to any terrorist activity and the money is cleared for you to receive. (Yes, really!)
Finally, if you pay that, they send you a fake remittance order showing that the money is on the way to your bank account.
As you might have suspected by now, the money never shows up. That’s because every step of the way was carried out by scammers looking to steal your money. So, what can you do to protect yourself against imposters when their stories keep changing?
- Be suspicious of any call, email, text, or letter from a government agency asking for money or information. Government agencies don’t call you with threats or promises of – or demands for – money. Scammers do.
- Don’t trust caller ID – it can be faked. Even if it might look like a real call from a real government agency, don’t trust it.
- Never pay with a gift card or wire transfer. If someone tells you to pay this way, it’s a scam.
- Check with the real agency. Look up their number. Call them to find out if they’re trying to reach you – and why.
If you look up Joe Simons, you’ll see that he is the Chairman of the FTC. But Joe didn’t email you. Scammers pretending to be Joe did.
Here’s another sign this is a scam: The FTC is not involved in distributing coronavirus economic stimulus money in any way. Economic stimulus payments come from the IRS. The IRS won’t contact you by phone, email, text message, or social media with information about any payments related to the coronavirus pandemic, or to ask you for personal or financial information. Check out irs.gov/coronavirus for the latest info about coronavirus relief payments.
If you get an email that says you’re getting some money, don’t reply, period. And definitely don’t give them your bank account or other financial information. Report it to the FTC at ReportFraud.ftc.gov.
Brought to you by Dr. Ware, Microsoft Office 365 Silver Partner, Charleston SC.
by Priyesh Wagh | Jan 15, 2021 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft, Technology
With the addition of the Rich Text Control, your Multiple Lines of Text field can make a lot more sense than before.
Standard Control
Your usual control for Multiple Lines of Text looks like this
Rich Text Control
Now, you can turn this into a Rich Text Editor
Here’s how you do it –
- Go to the Multiple Lines of Text field, in this case, Description field.
select the inner control and click on Properties
- Now, look for Controls tab and click on Add Control as shown below
- Look for Rich Text Editor Control
- Make sure you select the new Control on all formats (or wherever you want to apply)
- Once you apply changes and publish, the new Control will be available for you to use.
Hope this was useful. Here are some more Dynamic 365 posts which you might want to check –
- Ribbon button visibility based on a field value in Dynamics 365 | Ribbon Workbench
- Get GUID of the current View in Dynamics 365 CRM JS from ribbon button | Ribbon Workbench
- Make On-Demand Flow to show up in Dynamics 365 | Power Automate
- Find deprecated JS code used in your Dynamics 365 environment | Dynamics 365 v9 JS Validator tool | XrmToolBox
- Remove ‘This Email has been blocked due to potentially harmful content.’ message in Dynamics 365 Emails | OrgDbSettings utility
- Track and Set Regarding are disabled for Appointments in Dynamics 365 App For Outlook message | Demystified
- Mailbox Alerts Hide/Show behavior in Dynamics 365 CRM
- Dynamics 365 App For Outlook missing on SiteMap in CRM? Use shortcut link [Quick Tip]
- Pass Execution Context to JS Script function as a parameter from a Ribbon button in Dynamics 365 | Ribbon Workbench
- Find Created On date of solution components in Solution Layers | Dynamics 365 [Quick Tip]
Thank you!
Brought to you by Dr. Ware, Microsoft Office 365 Silver Partner, Charleston SC.
by Contributed | Jan 15, 2021 | Technology
This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.
The team is back for our second season of AzUpdate. News to be covered this week includes: Public IP SKU Upgrade Support, Microsoft announces GA of email-based one-time passcode (email OTP) feature for collaboration, Azure Security Centre Lab availability, Attack simulation training in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 now Generally Available and as always, our Microsoft Learn Module of the Week.
Public IP SKU Upgrade Support
Azure public IP addresses now support the ability to be upgraded from Basic to Standard SKU. Additionally, any Basic Public Load Balancer can now be upgraded to a Standard Public Load Balancer, while retaining the same public IP address. This is supported via PowerShell, CLI, templates, and API and available across all Azure regions.
Learn more about the process to upgrade Azure public IPs here. Learn about how to upgrade Azure Public Load Balancers here.
Microsoft announces GA of email-based one-time passcode (email OTP) feature for collaboration
It can be painful for IT managers to keep track of guest user accounts, and for end users to remember multiple usernames and passwords. To address this, Microsoft is continually improving the Azure AD External Identities solution with more support for bring-your-own-identity (BYOI) options with the general availability of email-based one-time passcode (email OTP) feature for collaboration.
Email OTP allows org members to collaborate with anyone in the world via a shared link or an email invitation. Once users prove their identity by using a verification code sent to their email, each authenticated session is provided access to the shared resource for 24 hours. On subsequent sign ins, users receive a new one-time code via email, which they must enter to prove continued ownership of the email account and continue receiving access.
Check out the following documentation to get started with email OTP.
Azure Security Centre Lab availability
Microsoft’s security center labs project can help organizations get ramped up with Azure Security Center by providing hands-on practical experience for product features, capabilities, and scenarios. The labs contain cover several different pillars such as Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection (CWP). An Azure Trial Subscription is required to start using the labs providing you all capabilities for thirty days.
Visit the Azure Security Center Lab repo to get started.
Attack simulation training in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 now Generally Available
Delivered in partnership with Terranova Security, Attack simulation training is an intelligent social engineering risk management tool that automates the creation and management of phishing simulations to help customers detect, prioritize, and remediate phishing risks by using real phish and hyper-targeted training to change employee behaviors.
Go to the Attack simulation training in your M365 Security and Compliance Center to get started today.
Community Events
- Patch and Switch – Rick Claus and Joey Snow are back for thier first show in 2021.
- All Around Azure – A Beginners Guide to IoT – Focus on topics ranging from IoT device connectivity, IoT data communication strategies, use of artificial intelligence at the edge, data processing considerations for IoT data, and IoT solutioning based on the Azure IoT reference architecture
- ITOps Talks: All Things Hybrid – The team is putting together a new type of event that allows you to watch sessions on your time. Focusing on “All Things Hybrid” the event, the sessions will focus on hybrid based cloud strategies and resources at a 300 level.
MS Learn Module of the Week
Learn how Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection can help your organization stay secure.
Protect against threats with Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection
Microsoft Threat Protection (MTP) is an integrated, cross-domain threat detection and response solution. It provides organizations with the ability to prevent, detect, investigate. and remediate sophisticated cross-domain attacks within their Microsoft 365 environments. The Microsoft Threat Protection learning path covers an introduction to Microsoft Threat Protection and the underlying pillars such as Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection, and Azure Advanced Threat Protection concepts.
This learning path can be completed here: Defend against threats with Microsoft Threat Protection
Let us know in the comments below if there are any news items you would like to see covered in the next show. Be sure to catch the next AzUpdate episode and join us in the live chat.
by Contributed | Jan 14, 2021 | Technology
This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.
PsExec v2.32
This update to PsExec fixes a bug where the -r option was not honored.
by Contributed | Jan 14, 2021 | Technology
This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.
The technical community needs to be deliberate about accessibility, ethics and inclusion if it wants to progress in equality and diversity.
This is the message of Australian MVPs Larene Legassick and Greg Alchin, and Korean MVP Jaesok Lee, as they continue to rally for the development of more inclusive technology-based solutions.
Accessibility in tech is an essential issue for each of the MVPs. Larene’s father is blind, and she has “grown up watching how the digital world has forgotten and excluded him and other disabled friends and family.” Greg, meanwhile, has a visual impairment, and Jaesok has worked closely with the hearing impaired in working toward “AI democratization.”
Unfortunately, accessibility continues to be an afterthought in the way technology solutions are designed. The trio says a lack of awareness and training results in tech creators who are usually not aware of what accessibility is and why it is important.
“Adding accessibility later takes much longer than building it in from the start, yet it should still be done,” Larene says. “It’s not ‘over-engineering’ or a nice-to-have, it’s a basic requirement.”
Greg concurs: “In my experience, most post-design accessibility checks are done in a rush near the end,” he says. “Then, when the design flaws are presented, the usual responses are ‘we don’t have the time or money now and will pick them up in version two.’ Nine times out of ten it doesn’t happen. So people are excluded by ignorance and omission. The product fails to reach the widest possible audience and the product owner is put at risk.”
Jaesok, meanwhile, notes the lack of accessibility for the hearing impaired in the remote age. “Hearing-impaired people have more difficulties in practising and implementing new technologies than ordinary people,” he says. “Although many AI technologies are being introduced and services for the hearing impaired are emerging, I think it is important to help them create the services they need and want for themselves.”
While there remain barriers surrounding inclusive design, those barriers are beginning to fall, the trio says. More dev tools support the creation of inclusive products and Microsoft “has done a lot to support developers to adopt methodology through the inclusive design resources they have developed,” Greg says. Further, the MVP community is proving willing and able to amplify the importance of accessibility.
“Once there’s awareness, people usually go learn and champion accessibility passionately,” Larene says.
“Being a member of the MVP community has provided multiple opportunities to connect with individual members and Microsoft staff to present at events and share articles,” Greg says. “Each connection and opportunity to promote inclusion through design is a perpetual ripple in the pond.”
“Accessibility is about affording all users the dignity of equal access,” Greg says. “And equal access enables the full and effective participation and inclusion of all citizens in a society.”
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