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Recent Comments
- Dan Ferras on Microsoft confirms Bitlocker boot problems after Windows 10/11 May 2025 update
- Thomas W on Microsoft Power Automate: Discontinued for private customers
- trhacker on Window: Issues with AllowNtAuthPolicyBypass (CVE-2025-26647)?
- Effe on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance attacked via zero-day vulnerability
- Geoff Vass on Windows 11 25H2: ISO installation image and enablement update available
Category Archives: Cloud
FYI: Citrix ShareFile worldwide down (24, Aug. 2023)
Brief information for administrators who are responsible for Citrix ShareFile. David M. just emailed me about a worldwide outage (thanks for that). He noted that this afternoon (8/24/2023) the connection to Citrix Sharefile became slower and slower. Then the connection … Continue reading
CloudNordic: Ransomware, and suddenly the Danish cloud was knocked out
[German]Customers of Danish cloud provider CloudNordic have successfully learned what it means to share responsibility. The provider had a ransomware infection when moving to a new data center, so the cloud offering was completely knocked out for the clientele. The … Continue reading
Microsoft's Storm-0558 cloud hack: US senator among the victims
[German]It's been a few days since it became known that members of the suspected Chinese cyber group Storm-0558 managed to break into the Exchange Online and private outlook.com accounts of 25 organizations. Now a US senator came forward with the … Continue reading
Reminder: Remote PowerShell on Exchange Online will be disabled
[German]Small reminder for administrators who maintain Microsoft's Exchange Online and still work with Remote PowerShell (RPS). In the meantime, Microsoft has deactivated RPS for new instances and this function can no longer be activated. In a few weeks, support for … Continue reading
Microsoft has fixed Azure vulnerability faster (in August 2023) after Tenable criticism
[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
Allegedly malicious notifications from teams through Defender ZAP
[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
Microsoft as a Security Risk? Azure vulnerability unpatched since March 2023, heavy criticism from Tenable – Part 2
[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
Microsoft has published the TokenTheft playbook
[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
SharePoint Online outage on July 25, 2023 due to incorrect TLS certificate
[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
VMs running Windows Server Datacenter 2022 on Azure with Desktop Experience: Hotpatching available
[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.