Microsoft warns its cloud customers that
their data may have been leaked:
Flaw left system used by Coca
Cola, Exxon-Mobil and other major
firms exposed
Reuters & Daily Mail [UK],
by
Ronny Reyes
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/27/2021 9:57:41 AM
Microsoft has warned thousands of its online cloud customers—including Fortune 500 firms like Coca-Cola, Exxon-Mobil, and Citrix—that their data may have been exposed to intruders. The company revealed a major flaw in its flagship Azure Cosmos DB database service on Thursday, which could allow hackers to read, change or delete data saved in the cloud, according to an internal email and a cyber security researcher.(Snip)'This is the worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine. It is a long-lasting secret,' Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak told Reuters. 'This is the central database of Azure, and we were able to get access to any customer database
This is exceptionally bad, and went undiscovered since 2019. MS has been pushing top companies for a long time, including mine, to move towards their cloud-based security solution for all integrated products, including Exchange e-mail systems. Many of us have been resistant to entrusting corporate infrastructure to the cloud. Amazon AWS has also been breached and their customers attacked. We need to be very wary of putting sensitive data out on the cloud, which despite everyone's assurance, remains quite vulnerable to these forms of attack.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
sunnyges 8/27/2021 10:33:55 AM (No. 894667)
I am shocked, shocked, to hear that MS Cloud has been hacked.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/27/2021 10:46:21 AM (No. 894692)
Good Old MicroSlob...from day one they have never figured out how to secure their 'Whipped Cream on top of Dog Stuff' Software.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 8/27/2021 10:50:01 AM (No. 894702)
I have ALWAYS assumed that "cloud data" was extremely likely to be at risk. Personally, I have never, ever put any data on "the cloud", knowing that it was insecure, and most likely not under my control.
My data stays on my systems, backed up to local removable hard drives or non-volatile media.
Trusting a lot of the "experts" in computing will get you into trouble. I have been amazed for decades at the incompetence that passes for knowledge and expertise in much of the upper echelon of computer programming. Many (most?) computer programmers are bright, but narrowly trained and narrowly focused individuals. And often they are woefully lacking in imagination, especially about ways that various "brilliant software designs" are "secure" and "impenetrable". I have never believed that ANY computer system is secure except NO ACCESS at all. If data is on a computer which is locked in a room, with steel walls to keep out radio waves, and can only be physically accessed by a short list of very well vetted individuals with a NEED to access the data......then maybe it might be fairly secure.
If it is accessible online, no matter how well "secured" by software and hardware, it is NOT secure if someone really wants access.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
formerNYer 8/27/2021 11:15:24 AM (No. 894735)
Too busy being woke than getting their cloud secure. Gates is a moron and surprise he supports the dems?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/27/2021 12:09:44 PM (No. 894787)
Maybe if Gates spent more time with computer stuff and less time pushing 'woke' , and climate control and of course he and faux-chi's vaccine, they wouldn't have this problem.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/27/2021 12:11:01 PM (No. 894788)
The makers of the World's Crappiest Operating System - - are equally adept at providing cloud service.
No wonder Gates is a multi-billionaire.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Plex 8/27/2021 12:15:23 PM (No. 894794)
A secure system is possible. I worked on one but it requires redesign of most software and was considered to be too expensive. A system based on the assumption that nothing is shared except explicitly by an application and sharing can be tested by the user is secure but many find it very hard to use. Just a thought.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hershey 8/27/2021 12:15:35 PM (No. 894795)
The Cloud can shove it...if you want to backup something put it on a secondary hard drive then disconnect that when you have finished the backup...if it ain't plugged in it can't be hacked...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
curious1 8/27/2021 12:18:22 PM (No. 894800)
If you must store data on the 'cloud', make very certain it is properly encrypted before you ever send it. Properly meaning you and only you have the key and you used the latest encryption algorithm that's hasn't yet been compromised.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 8/27/2021 12:23:41 PM (No. 894807)
many years ago when i worked for one of the top 3 or 4 defense contractors, a co-worker who was one of out top computer security people was adamant that if the computer had a wire of any sort connected to the outside world(including a power cord), even if in a faraday cage, you could not insure that it could not be accessed.
He also gave me a rather big handbook from a symposium on EMP weapons and laughed at how easy it would be for a small device to be triggered (exploded) inside our secure data vault, pretty much wiping all those thousands of reels of computer tapes without much collateral damage. I am sure as he looks over at the cloud storage near by, he doubles with laughter over at their security claims
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 8/27/2021 12:44:29 PM (No. 894826)
If you are storing your data on a server managed by Microsoft you need your brain worked on! Store your data on a storage device at your home! Don’t EVER give your info to a corporate entity that is incompetent! Hint…they are all incompetent!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/27/2021 12:47:26 PM (No. 894829)
It was only a matter of time. This cloud concept is a good way to save data space on your own computer as well as make extra profit available to Big Tech but 1) Others have control of it. 2) If they have control of it they can sell it or leak it. Any data not on your own computer is wide open to the world.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/27/2021 12:51:52 PM (No. 894835)
Cloud data is riskier than storing your own data. Corporations want to off-load IT services that would keep it in house.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/27/2021 12:57:51 PM (No. 894839)
Remember, anything that computer experts tell you is influenced by how much money they can make if you implement their products or services.
It's quite amusing how easily Windows can be hacked, invaded, immobilized by denial of service attacks, etc. but Bill Gates and his green-card specialists have never been able to make simple networking or dial-up networking work simply and easily. It's like trying to install a ceiling fan where a thirty pound fan must dangle from two wires so you can connect them. You will drop and crash more than once before you succeed.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
hershey 8/27/2021 3:01:10 PM (No. 894926)
If man can make it, man can break it....
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Safari Man 8/27/2021 5:08:22 PM (No. 895055)
No mention of iCloud data -- iCloud is a major customer of Azure.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/27/2021 9:40:36 PM (No. 895343)
Fix your crap, Gates. You need time in that task before you can qualify to rule the world.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
ragnar2345 8/27/2021 11:45:32 PM (No. 895418)
If you as an individual have important data on your system, keep in on your system and backed up on a USB key. This cloud stuff is fine for books, music, pictures, etc. Important data.. NO WAY JOSE (Hope that was racist!!)
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Only an idiot would trust their data with "the cloud"!
I have turned it off on my computer, and gladly pay for a physical back up that stays in my possession.
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