Tag Archives: Cloud

Authentication service OKTA hacked by Lapsus$?

Posted on 2022-03-22 by guenni

[German]Extremely unpleasant story if the whole thing turns out to be true. According to a report, the provider OKTA is investigating a possible hack. Okta is a provider of authentication services in the cloud, so a successful hack could have … Continue reading →

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IT crisis: Russia to run out of storage space in 2 months

Posted on 2022-03-17 by guenni

[German]The international sanctions against Russia are forced a withdrawal of US cloud providers, who are cancelling services for Russian customers. Now an IT crisis is looming in Russia, because the country is running out of storage for data. In an … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Office 2021/365: AutoSave only in the cloud

Posted on 2022-02-27 by guenni

[German]Frequent users of Microsoft Office 2021 and Office 365 have probably already noticed this. The AutoSave function now only saves files from Word, Excel and PowerPoint in the cloud (on OneDrive or SharePoint). A local storage is probably no longer … Continue reading →

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Multi-cloud security and compliance – challenges and best practices

Posted on 2022-02-06 by guenni

[German]Companies are heading to the cloud. This often involves multiple cloud providers. Multi-cloud strategies further complicate cloud security and compliance, as controls and policies must be applied consistently across multiple cloud environments. IT security firm Orca Security looked at cloud … Continue reading →

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admin.microsoft.com and Office 365 Admin Center down (Feb. 3, 2022)

Posted on 2022-02-03 by guenni

[German]Microsoft's admin.microsoft.com sub-domain is down, which means that many admin centers for Microsoft services (Office 365, etc.) are no longer accessible. Here is a quick overview of what is known so far. Addendum: It seems to affect Europe, Middle East … Continue reading →

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

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Exchange Online down? (January 17, 2022)

Posted on 2022-01-17 by guenni

Exchange Online has been down on January 17, 2022, where users have problems accessing their Exchange Online mailboxes and calendars. It seems to affect mainly the regions Australia, North America and Japan. But I also got reports from Europe and … Continue reading →

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Cloud outages 2021: When Akamai, Facebook and Amazon was down

Posted on 2021-12-29 by guenni

[German]The year 2021 was characterized by many uncertainties and the return of the coronavirus infection wave. At the latest since the outbreak of the pandemic, terms such as Next Normal and digital user experience have entered the vocabulary of many … Continue reading →

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Vendor Kronos/UKG victim of a ransomware attack, cloud service disruption for weeks

Posted on 2021-12-14 by guenni

[German]I had already seen it briefly on Twitter yesterday, the provider of software solutions "from the cloud" (accounting, workforce scheduling, time tracking, etc.), the company Kronos, has become a victim of a ransomware attack over the weekend (Dec. 11, 2021). … Continue reading →

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Cloud services vulnerable via USB-over-Ethernet vulnerabilities

Posted on 2021-12-10 by guenni

[German]Security researchers from SentinelLabs have discovered vulnerabilities in USB-over-Ethernet software that make cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or other cloud services vulnerable to attack. Some of the affected providers have provided automatic security updates to address the … Continue reading →

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Amazon AWS cloud outage causes chaos (2021/12/08)

Posted on 2021-12-08 by guenni

[German]As of today, December 8, 2021, there was a major outage of Amazon AWS services in the US. The Amazon Cloud service was disrupted for about 8 hours, and all users who relied on this service were pretty much left … Continue reading →

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