
Control Flow Guard (CFG) is used to help protect against memory corruption vulnerabilities in .NET software. We can implement Control Flow Guard in Visual Studio 2015 to help protect against these problems in Windows.
We can configure Windows Defender scans using Windows PowerShell as an alternative to configuring them through the graphical user interface. This allows us to integrate Windows Defender features into PowerShell scripts, and configure settings that are not available through the graphical user interface.
By default SMB version 1.0 is enabled in Windows 10. As this was last needed in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 it’s quite old, newer versions of SMB are more secure and have additional features. If you no longer need to support these older versions of SMB file shares, it’s a good idea to disable SMB version 1.0, or even remove it completely, as a number of recent vulnerabilities specifically affect SMB version 1.
By default SMB version 1.0 is enabled in Windows Server 2016. As this was last needed in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 it’s quite old, newer versions of SMB are more secure and have additional features. If you no longer need to support these older versions of SMB file shares, it’s a good idea to disable SMB version 1.0, or even remove it completely, as a number of recent vulnerabilities specifically affect SMB version 1.
The ‘rm’ command is used to delete files and directories, rm comes from the GNU Coreutils package and should be available by default in Unix/Linux based operating systems.
By the end of this guide you should know how to use rm to remove files and directories in Linux by following these practical examples.