In July, CrowdStrike caused a global IT outage, which I wrote about here: What I learned from the ‘Microsoft global IT outage’ A website called clownstrike.lol popped up, which displays a clown with some clown music: clownstrike.lol homepge CrowdStrike used CSC to…
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Microsoft need to be transparent about customer impacting DDoS attacks
Back in early June 2023, I tracked a botnet DDoS’ing Microsoft, causing serious network outages in Azure and Microsoft 365 for days. I toot’d about it at the time: At the time, Microsoft didn’t disclose what happened or comment. Eventually, Associated Press…
Microsoft need to be transparent about customer impacting DDoS attacks
Back in early June 2023, I tracked a botnet DDoS’ing Microsoft, causing serious network outages in Azure and Microsoft 365 for days. I toot’d about it at the time: At the time, Microsoft didn’t disclose what happened or comment. Eventually, Associated Press…
What I learned from the ‘Microsoft global IT outage’
I woke up Friday to discover CrowdStrike — a cybersecurity vendor who aims to protect orgs from cyber attacks such as availability outages — created the largest IT outage ever, by pushing out a duff product update globally and breaking just under 9 million…
What I learned from the ‘Microsoft global IT outage’
I woke up Friday to discover CrowdStrike — a cybersecurity vendor who aims to protect orgs from cyber attacks such as availability outages — created the largest IT outage ever, by pushing out a duff product update globally and breaking just under 9 million…
Snowflake at centre of world’s largest data breach
Cloud AI Data platform Snowflake are having a bad month. Due to teenager threat actors and cybersecurity of its own customers… and its own cybersecurity, too, in terms of optics. There are several large data breaches playing out in the media…
Recall: Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible.
Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster. I wrote a piece recently about Copilot+ Recall, a new Microsoft Windows 11 feature which — in the…
How the new Microsoft Recall feature fundamentally undermines Windows security
Yesterday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sat down with the media to introduce a new feature called Recall, as part of their Copilot+ PCs. It takes screenshots of what you’re doing on constantly, by design: https://medium.com/media/d4abba4451fecf39939e7aee53697784/href The idea is it allows you…
Breaking down Microsoft’s pivot to placing cybersecurity as a top priority
Recently, Microsoft had quite frankly a kicking from the US Department of Homeland Security over their security practices in a Cyber Safety Review Board report. I’ve tried to keep as quiet as possible about this one for various reasons (and…
Breaking down Microsoft’s pivot to placing cybersecurity as a top priority
Recently, Microsoft had a quite frankly a kicking from the US Department of Homeland Security over their security practices in a Cyber Safety Review Board report. I’ve tried to keep as quiet as possible about this one for various reasons…