[German]Microsoft has just announced the general availability of its Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Backup Storage solutions. Microsoft 365 Backup allows you to back up and restore data from OneDrive, SharePoint and Exchange.
[German]On July 30, 2024, there was a partial outage of Microsoft cloud services (Azure, Microsoft 365, etc.) worldwide. I had reported – but not all users were affected. Microsoft has now published a post-incident report and identified the initial causes. The problems were triggered by a DDoS attack that led to an overload. A bug in the routines for defending against such cases then exacerbated the consequences of the attack. A hacker group with a political focus on the Middle East conflict claims responsibility for the attack.
[German]Small addendum from July 25, 2024: It was announced that MariaDB plc has a new majority shareholder. This is a subsidiary of an investment firm. This company has acquired 88.7% of the shares in MariaDB plc and can now determine the fate of the database developer.
[German]Microsoft security experts have discovered a ransomware campaign targeting VMware ESXi instances. Via an Auth Bypass vulnerability (CVE-2024-37085) it is possible to gain full administrative privileges on domain-joined ESXi hypervisors. The vulnerability is being exploited by several ransomware operators to attack ESXi installations.
[German]A few more additions to Microsoft 365 in the last few days: Microsoft is burying the option for administrators to have a password sent to them by email when setting up or editing new Microsoft 365 user accounts. This option will be discontinued by the end of August 2024 at the latest. Microsoft also wants to automatically archive unlicensed OneDrive accounts with OneDrive for Business after 90 days. This will begin in 2024 (January to March).
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[German]Currently Microsoft is struggling with a hiccup in its cloud services. A reader informed me at around 2:29 pm (Central European Time) that Microsoft Entra had been unavailable since 2 hours. Here is a brief update on what is now known.
[German]Bitlocker, the "unknown entity" I would like to paraphrase the blog post. It's about the question of where the Windows Bitlocker function actually stores the recovery key, which is needed from time to time. Before someone comes around with "in your Microsoft account", it's not always that simple. Blog reader Markus, who is an administrator, pointed out a special kind of observation in this context. Time to take another look at Bitlocker.
[German]With the security updates that Microsoft rolled out for Windows on July 9, 2024, there are problems with remote connections. I have received some reports that the Remote Desktop Gateway service is broken and regularly crashes under some Windows versions (Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022). Now Microsoft has officially confirmed these problems with remote connections.
[German]I'm adding a topic to the blog that was announced by Microsoft back in April 2024, but hasn't yet received too much attention. A reader had already pointed this out to me some time ago. Microsoft will finally discontinue support for basic authentication with client submission (SMTP AUTH) in Exchange Online in September 2025. So anyone who uses this feature still has a year to react.
[German]The Pinterest service has (probably) suffered a major data leak affecting its registered users. While it's not confirmed, security researchers from Surfshark have looked at the details and found that the USA and France are the most affected countries among the 6 million affected users. Overall are 6 million user accounts affected.
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