Windows 10 Announced - Released 29-Jul-2015

Found some interesting guides on the web for hardening Windows 10.

http://hardenwindows10forsecurity.com/index.html <---- Hardening of services, threat prevention and firewalls.
https://stigviewer.com/stig/windows_10/#disqus_thread <----- Awesome site! Register for more great info.

Information is for Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise users who have the ability to edit group policy.

 

Why is Microsoft not offering some of these features for home customers? They may be helpful even for Home users

 

Microsoft is implementing a new security mitigation in upcoming Windows 10 builds called Return Flow Guard (RFG).
Link: http://xlab.tencent.com/en/2016/11/02/return-flow-guard/

 

Windows 10 Mitigation Improvements (.PDF / Blackhat US 2016)
Link: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Weston-Windows-10-Mitigation-Improvements.pdf

Good read.

 

Microsoft has resumed proving virtual machines for Windows 10 Insider Preview builds with build 14959.
Link: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

 

Microsoft now reminds Chrome and Firefox users about Edge’s security features on Windows 10

https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-n...-about-edges-security-features-on-windows-10/

 

Before anyone get their knickers in a twist over this, then let's just remember that Google has been showing a big yellow box in top of the browser warning you that you ought to install Chrome and use that instead of Edge.
This has been going on for more than a year.
Ask a colleague with a Google account to log into a Google service from Edge and you will see.
Google has used all kinds of slogans in that yellow warning box to try and get users away from Edge.
The Microsoft notifications can be switched off with one click with the mouse in Settings.
The ones from Google can't.

Edge and Chrome are both very secure browsers with very dedicated teams. I seriously doubt this is any more than the two teams teasing each other.

 

Dang. Marketing messages on your desktop. Marketing messages about those marketing messages in forum threads.

 

I hope that they don't decide to remove cmd entirely. For me, that's another reason to stay with W7 as long as possible.