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Microsoft's complete lack of any security consciousness is genuinely scary. They control so much of the world's personal and enterprise computing it's not even
by sofixa 2y ago
Microsoft's complete lack of any security consciousness is genuinely scary. They control so much of the world's personal and enterprise computing it's not even funny.
A random selection of serious security incidents from Azure:
just from Wiz from the past 2-3 years, and of course they aren't the only ones:
https://www.wiz.io/blog/secret-agent-exposes-azure-customers https://www.wiz.io/blog/secret-agent-exposes-azure-customers...
https://www.wiz.io/blog/storm-0558-compromised-microsoft-key https://www.wiz.io/blog/storm-0558-compromised-microsoft-key...
https://www.wiz.io/blog/azure-active-directory-bing-misconfi https://www.wiz.io/blog/azure-active-directory-bing-misconfi...
https://www.wiz.io/blog/omigod-critical-vulnerabilities-in-o https://www.wiz.io/blog/omigod-critical-vulnerabilities-in-o...
https://www.wiz.io/blog/chaosdb-explained-azures-cosmos-db-v https://www.wiz.io/blog/chaosdb-explained-azures-cosmos-db-v...
of course Microsoft AI researchers sucking at security: https://www.wiz.io/blog/38-terabytes-of-private-data-acciden https://www.wiz.io/blog/38-terabytes-of-private-data-acciden...
Nice overview from Corey Quinn that predates some of those but things were already horrifically bad: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/azures-terrible-security- https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/azures-terrible-security-...
Oh and there's also this, them selling your usage patterns to partners (hopefully they've stopped): https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1359769481539506180 https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1359769481539506180
Oh and another one where they bungled the response: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1536868170815795200 https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1536868170815795200
I find it impossible to believe that Azure as a whole organisation takes security seriously. There might be individuals that do, but definitely nobody with decision making power. Half of the above described exploits are trivial and should have never passed any sort of competent review process.
- DEADMINCE 2y ago> Microsoft's complete lack of any security consciousness is genuinely scary. They control so much of the world's personal and enterprise computing it's not even funny. So this is funny in a way, because MS had such a terrible and mostly deserved security reputation with Windows...and then they really cleaned and tightened it up. Windows had and continues to have one of the best OS security architectures, and is certainly the best out of all consumer operating systems. But with the cloud stuff and embarrassing gaffs like this, what the hell happened? New managers and a lot of employee turnover, I guess?
- pjmlp 2y agoYes, on the WinUI community calls it is quite visible, when the community asks about when is feature XYZ from Windows Forms/WPF comming into WinUI, and it is quite clear by some reactions that they don't have any idea about the said feature, and how behind WinUI is to them.