Category Archives: Cloud

Microsoft has fixed Azure vulnerability faster (in August 2023) after Tenable criticism

Posted on 2023-08-06 by guenni

[German]Microsoft surprisingly fixed a vulnerability in the Azure environment as reported of Aufugst 4, 2023, with a patch originally scheduled for end of September 2023. Microsoft has been aware of the vulnerability since March 2023. The harsh criticism of the … Continue reading →

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Allegedly malicious notifications from teams through Defender ZAP

Posted on 2023-08-05 by guenni

[German]I would like to ask the administrators among the readership if anyone else is experiencing the effect mentioned here. An administrator contacted me because he has been getting reports of supposedly corrupt notifications from Teams for days. In use is … Continue reading →

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Microsoft as a Security Risk? Azure vulnerability unpatched since March 2023, heavy criticism from Tenable – Part 2

Posted on 2023-08-03 by guenni

[German]Security vendor Tenable has made serious accusations against Microsoft. A critical vulnerability in Azure Active Directory (AAD, recently EntraID) has been known since March 2023, but has not yet been patched. The CEO of security vendor Tenable, Amit Yoran, sharply … Continue reading →

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Microsoft has published the TokenTheft playbook

Posted on 2023-08-03 by guenni

[German]Small note to administrators who are responsible for or manage services and applications in the (Microsoft) cloud. The theft of tokens can enable attackers to access the corresponding services. As a result of a corresponding incident, Microsoft has therefore published … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Online outage on July 25, 2023 due to incorrect TLS certificate

Posted on 2023-07-25 by guenni

[German]On July 24, 2023, there was a brief outage of SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. After two hours, Microsoft informed us that the problem was related to an update and had already been corrected. In the meantime, it has … Continue reading →

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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VMs running Windows Server Datacenter 2022 on Azure with Desktop Experience: Hotpatching available

Posted on 2023-07-23 by guenni

[German]One more quick piece of information for administrators who manage Windows Server 2022 Datacenter virtual machines on Microsoft Azure with Desktop Experience. Microsoft has just announced that hotpatching is now available for these machines. Advertising

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Stolen AAD key allowed (Storm-0558) wide-ranging access to Microsoft cloud services

Posted on 2023-07-22 by guenni

[German]Microsoft had to admit on begin of July 2023 that suspected Chinese hackers from the Storm-0558 group were able to forge security tokens using a stolen private MSA key. Then then gain broad access to Microsoft cloud services, as Wiz … Continue reading →

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Microsoft365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Archive introduced

Posted on 2023-07-21 by guenni

[German]As part of this week's Inspire 2023 partner conference, Microsoft also unveiled two new data backup products. With Microsoft365Backup and Microsoft 365 Archive, administrators should be able to back up data from Microsoft products such as OneDrive, SharePoint or Exchange … Continue reading →

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After CISA report on Storm-0558 hack, Microsoft provides customers with enhanced cloud logging

Posted on 2023-07-20 by guenni

[German]At the suggestion of the U.S. National Security Agency (CISA), Microsoft will provide its customers with enhanced cloud logging capabilities at no additional cost. This is intended to improve cyber defenses and incident response and is in response to the … Continue reading →

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Exchange Online blocked emails (June 18, 2023)

Posted on 2023-07-18 by guenni

[German]Today, July 18, 2023, Microsoft's Exchange Online cloud service appears to have been experiencing a [partial] glitch since morning (8 a.m. UTM). German blog readers reported that emails are being blocked. There are various references to issues on 3rd party … Continue reading →

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