Tag Archives: Cloud

Strange cloud access to collector.azure.*

Posted on 2024-05-14 by guenni

[German]I'm posting here an observation from readers that relates to Microsoft's Azure and Microsoft 365 services. Since mid-April 2024, there have been cyclical accesses to various domains that list "collector" as a subdomain. Virustotal probably has no complaints, so it's … Continue reading →

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Azure Entra ID: Microsoft confirms issues with Single Sign On (SSO)

Posted on 2024-05-13 by guenni

[German]Administrators have been complaining for some time about sporadic problems with Single Sign On (SSO) under Microsoft's Azure Entra ID. Users are then sporadically unable to log in to their Microsoft 365 apps. Now there seems to be confirmation from … Continue reading →

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Broadcom leaks email-addresses from VMware administrators; AWS is out as a VMware customer, relief for cloud customers

Posted on 2024-05-10 by guenni

[German]Today we have a small collective article on Broadcom and VMware. Broadcom made a mistake and, as the company had to admit, they sent the e-mails of administrators at customer sites around the world for everyone to see. And at … Continue reading →

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Does Intune store on-premises CA certificates permanently in the cloud?

Posted on 2024-05-05 by guenni

[German]Good question raised by a Microsoft Intune administrator. The man had problems with certificates and took a closer look. It looks like Intune is permanently storing the CA certificates generated for on-premises systems in the cloud. Another Intune administrator pointed … Continue reading →

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

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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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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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