Tag Archives: Cloud

Cloud withdrawal saves 37signals millions of US dollars

Posted on 2023-09-22 by guenni

[German]The cloud is expensive and sometimes useless – the cloud-first strategy of some providers, which has lured users en masse to such offerings, is leading them into cost traps. Now US company 37signals has pulled the emergency brake after having … Continue reading →

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Exchange Online: Retirement of Exchange Web Services (EWS) after October 1, 2026

Posted on 2023-09-20 by guenni

[German]Note to Exchange Online administrators. Microsoft has just announced in a blog post that it will discontinue Exchange Web Services (EWS) on October 1, 2026. All communication will then have to be done via Microsoft Graph from that date. So … 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 ...

Data leak: Microsoft AI researchers lose 38 TBytes of internal data via GitHub/Azure cloud storage

Posted on 2023-09-19 by guenni

[German]Next data leak and security incident at Microsoft: Security researchers at Wiz have stumbled upon 38 terabytes of private internal data stored on an Azure Cloud Store instance via a public Microsoft AI GitHub repository. Access was enabled by a … Continue reading →

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Microsoft's Storm-0558 cloud hack: MSA key comes from Windows crash dump of a PC

Posted on 2023-09-07 by guenni

[German]The hack of Microsoft's Azure cloud by the suspected Chinese group Storm-0558 from May to June 2023 was possible due to a stolen private MSA key and bugs. At the time, accounts at Exchange Online via OWA and  Outlook.com had … Continue reading →

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Attention: Transcription APIs from teams will be chargeable from Sept. 1, 2023 onwards

Posted on 2023-09-06 by guenni

[German]One more small warning, even if it's currently more likely to affect developers who use Microsoft's cloud stuff via API. There is a preview of the Teams transcription APIs, which can be used to create meeting transcripts and recordings using … Continue reading →

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FYI: Citrix ShareFile worldwide down (24, Aug. 2023)

Posted on 2023-08-24 by guenni

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 →

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CloudNordic: Ransomware, and suddenly the Danish cloud was knocked out

Posted on 2023-08-24 by guenni

[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 →

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Microsoft's Storm-0558 cloud hack: US senator among the victims

Posted on 2023-08-16 by guenni

[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 →

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Reminder: Remote PowerShell on Exchange Online will be disabled

Posted on 2023-08-15 by guenni

[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 →

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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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