Tag Archives: Cloud

Microsoft account: Users will remain logged in from Feb. 2025

Posted on 2025-01-29 by guenni

[German]Brief information for users who sign in to services online with Microsoft accounts. From February 2025, Microsoft wants to keep users signed in when they leave the service. This could become a problem if multiple users or accounts are used … Continue reading →

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Russian internet provider Nodex (St. Petersburg) hacked and systems wiped

Posted on 2025-01-09 by guenni

[German]Internet providers and their systems are the focus of hackers. The Russian internet provider Nodex, which is based in St. Petersburg, also found this out when it fell victim to a cyber attack (presumably from Ukraine). Data was extracted from … Continue reading →

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VW data leak: terabytes of location data from electric vehicles on AWS

Posted on 2024-12-27 by guenni

[German]The VW Group is at the center of a data scandal in which recorded location data from 800,000 electric vehicles amounting to terabytes was accessible from the cloud. On the one hand, the incident shows what data vehicle manufacturers collect. … Continue reading →

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Amazon pauses Microsoft 365 rollout due to security concerns after hack

Posted on 2024-12-17 by guenni

[German]In 2023, Microsoft had to admit to hacks of its Exchange Online and Azure services. Bloomberg is now reporting that Amazon has paused its plans to roll out Microsoft 365 in the company. This is due to security concerns following … Continue reading →

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Microsoft 365 SAS-URL import error 500 fixed

Posted on 2024-12-05 by guenni

[German]Since November 2024, the PST import into a Microsoft 365 tenant using a SAS URL was broken. The import process was aborted with an error 500. Microsoft seems to have fixed the problem as of December 3, 2024. Advertising

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

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Exchange Online issues, e.g. with the Teams calendar (Nov. 25, 2024)

Posted on 2024-11-25 by guenni

[German]A quick information for all blog readers: Are you experiencing problems with Exchange Online? Microsoft is investigating reports of problems with Exchange Online in connection with the Microsoft Teams calendar. Some users are reporting a 404 error when attempting to … Continue reading →

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Exchange Online Delicensing Resiliency: Protection against unintentional delicensing actions

Posted on 2024-11-19 by guenni

[German]Microsoft introduced the "Exchange Online Delicensing Resiliency" feature in Exchange Online at the beginning of November 2024. This allows administrators to protect Exchange Online mailboxes from unintentional de-licensing by granting a 30-day grace period for license removal. Here is some … Continue reading →

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Microsoft 365-Problem: SAS-URL not available, Error 500

Posted on 2024-11-06 by guenni

[German]A German blog reader has pointed out that the PST import into a Microsoft 365 tenant has not worked since at least November 1, 2024 using a SAS URL. The import tool is reporting Error 500 for his German Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Microsoft: Attacks on cloud customers by stealing login data

Posted on 2024-11-05 by guenni

[German]Microsoft security experts have observed various intrusion activities aimed at stealing the credentials of several Microsoft customers. These attacks by suspected state actors (China-Russia) were probably successful and were made possible by password spray attacks or via RDP. Advertising

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Okta has closed a login vulnerability that allowed an arbitrary password

Posted on 2024-11-02 by guenni

[German]Does anyone from my readers use the Okta authentication service? Once again there is a security report about this provider. Okta has just closed a login vulnerability that allowed users to log in to certain accounts with any password since … Continue reading →

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