Tag Archives: Cloud

US CISA orders admins in authorities to mitigate the cyber risks of the Microsoft Cloud

Posted on 2024-04-15 by guenni

[English]On April 2, 2024, the US cybersecurity authority CISA issued a directive to the administrators of US authorities requiring them to "mitigate" or eliminate the cyber risks posed to customers by a hack of the Microsoft Cloud or the Microsoft … Continue reading →

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Unsecured Microsoft Azure Server exposes passwords etc. of Microsoft systems (Feb. 2024)

Posted on 2024-04-11 by guenni

[German]Security researchers from SOCRadar have discovered an unsecured storage server on Microsoft Azure on which internal information about Microsoft's Bing search engine was stored. Well, the storage server, which was freely accessible to anyone, only contained unimportant stuff from Microsoft … Continue reading →

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How to find weak passwords in Active Directory and eliminate them with PowerShell

[Sponsored Post]Weak or compromised passwords are a known gateway for attackers. If you are able to identify which users in Active Directory (AD) are threatened by this, then PowerShell can help to remedy it. However, PowerShell scripts cannot eliminate basic AD deficits, other tools are needed for this. More ...

Microsoft slammed for a cascade of faults that leads to Storm-0558 cloud hack

Posted on 2024-04-03 by guenni

[German]The US Cyber Safety Review Board has now published its report on the hack of Microsoft Online Exchange in the summer of 2023 by the suspected Chinese group Storm-0558. The board's conclusion: Microsoft can't do security! And certainly not in … Continue reading →

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Microsoft PKI vulnerability – a warning without details …

Posted on 2024-03-21 by guenni

A little info that recently came to my attention. Microsoft seems to have informed some people that they have found a configuration problem in the Microsoft Cloud Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). This would affect the configuration in the organization of … Continue reading →

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Exchange Online: Microsoft confirms outgoing emails are rejected as spam (March 2024)

Posted on 2024-03-10 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has a problem with its Exchange Online instances that can easily sideline its customers. The sender domains for emails are classified as spam and rejected. This means that companies can no longer send mail. After I discussed this several … Continue reading →

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Windows Explorer issues since Adobe Sync deactivation; fixed in Feb. 2024

Posted on 2024-02-22 by guenni

[German]A little information for Windows 10/11 users who also use Adobe's Creative Cloud. It seems that some of these users have "recently" started to suffer from problems with Windows Explorer. It reacts extremely slowly when changing folders and file selection … Continue reading →

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Security incident: 13,000 Wyze camera users see images of other users

Posted on 2024-02-20 by guenni

[German]Security camera vendor, Wyze, recently experienced technical problems. Users reported that they were suddenly shown other people's camera images. The provider has now confirmed the security incident. Around 13,000 users were affected and were shown the camera data of other … Continue reading →

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Azure Virtual Desktop is generally available (February 1, 2024)

Posted on 2024-02-09 by guenni

[German]A small addendum to a topic that has been on my list for a few days. Microsoft has made Azure Virtual Desktop generally available (GA) on the Azure Stack HCI platform. Here is some information on this topic. Advertising

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Microsoft hacked by Russian Midnight Blizzard; emails exfiltrated since Nov. 2023

Posted on 2024-01-20 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has been successfully hacked by the Russian state hacker group Midnight Blizzard, also known as Nobelium. This was noticed on January 12, 2024, but the hackers were probably in the systems for months and were able to view and … Continue reading →

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Copilot Pro: Microsoft's subscription model for its products

Posted on 2024-01-16 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has introduced an extension to its LLM solution Copilot. Microsoft Copilot Pro is a subscription-based approach to rolling out LLM models to both home and business users, from small businesses to large enterprises, and earning money from these solutions. … Continue reading →

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