Microsoft’s Security Chickens Have Come Home to Roost

News analysis:  SecurityWeek editor-at-large Ryan Naraine reads the CSRB report on China’s audacious Microsoft’s Exchange Online hack and isn’t at all surprised by the findings.
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A “cascade” of errors let Chinese hackers into US government inboxes

Microsoft still doesn’t known how Storm-0558 attackers managed to steal the Microsoft Services Account cryptographic key they used to forge authentication tokens needed to access email accounts belonging to US government officials. “The sto… Continue reading A “cascade” of errors let Chinese hackers into US government inboxes

Scathing Federal Report Rips Microsoft for Shoddy Security, Insincerity in Response to Chinese Hack

Cyber Safety Review Board, said “a cascade of errors” by Microsoft let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials.
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Cloud Active Defense: Open-source cloud protection

Cloud Active Defense is an open-source solution that integrates decoys into cloud infrastructure. It creates a dilemma for attackers: risk attacking and being detected immediately, or avoid the traps and reduce their effectiveness. Anyone, including sm… Continue reading Cloud Active Defense: Open-source cloud protection