What's with all this fairly overt state sponsored hacking and everyone going "aww shucks" and moving on quietly?
Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked
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Re: Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked
#42I hate to go negative. I really do because, usually it doesn't improve the discourse whatsoever. However, I feel like it needs to be said: Microsoft makes bad products[1]! They're overpriced, insecure, slow (it's astounding to me how slow their web properties are), and hard to use. Easily some of the worst UI I've ever seen and, what's worse, they've been like that my entire career. They keep slapping lipstick on the…
Linux on the desktop is here. Go all-in on KDE. Everything is seamless and just works.
Re: Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked
#43I hate to go negative. I really do because, usually it doesn't improve the discourse whatsoever. However, I feel like it needs to be said: Microsoft makes bad products[1]! They're overpriced, insecure, slow (it's astounding to me how slow their web properties are), and hard to use. Easily some of the worst UI I've ever seen and, what's worse, they've been like that my entire career. They keep slapping lipstick on the…
what does this have to do with the article, though? You just had a rant ready for when you saw a Microsoft-is-at-fault story came up?
Re: Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked
#44I hate to go negative. I really do because, usually it doesn't improve the discourse whatsoever. However, I feel like it needs to be said: Microsoft makes bad products[1]! They're overpriced, insecure, slow (it's astounding to me how slow their web properties are), and hard to use. Easily some of the worst UI I've ever seen and, what's worse, they've been like that my entire career. They keep slapping lipstick on the…
I’d go with Gmail…
Re: Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked
#45I hate to go negative. I really do because, usually it doesn't improve the discourse whatsoever. However, I feel like it needs to be said: Microsoft makes bad products[1]! They're overpriced, insecure, slow (it's astounding to me how slow their web properties are), and hard to use. Easily some of the worst UI I've ever seen and, what's worse, they've been like that my entire career. They keep slapping lipstick on the…
Linux on the desktop is here. Go all-in on KDE. Everything is seamless and just works.
This has nothing to do with large scale enterprise email security.
Re: Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked
#46I hate to go negative. I really do because, usually it doesn't improve the discourse whatsoever. However, I feel like it needs to be said: Microsoft makes bad products[1]! They're overpriced, insecure, slow (it's astounding to me how slow their web properties are), and hard to use. Easily some of the worst UI I've ever seen and, what's worse, they've been like that my entire career. They keep slapping lipstick on the…
Linux on the desktop is here. Go all-in on KDE. Everything is seamless and just works.
> Everything is seamless and just works.
I have zero confidence in that testimonial, given my own experience with open source desktop environments, and KDE. zero confidence whatsoever.
Re: Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was about to say, wasn't all their source code stolen too? https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/okta-breach-source-code-gi... Okta looked very bad during the entire saga where they kept denying they were hacked until the proof was insurmountable. Pretty sure there was a large discussion on HN at the time too.
Agree they have shortcomings too, I guess, what I was trying to say is its best not to put all your eggs in one basket and to spread them across different products/companies.
So, many weak links and no one technical is responsible with the macro vision?
Re: Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked
#48Any Windows product/system is a liability. I'm not sure how to put this lightly. It was designed to create a monopoly first before any other goal. And it's not that the alternatives are perfect, but Windows is as secure as swiss cheese.
this is not windows
Re: Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked
#49One of the reasons why we moved away from using Microsoft products for our identity management to Okta. Not that they are bad products per se, but as many organizations use Microsoft products they are prime targets for too many hackers and it’s hard going to bed thinking that your identity info might be hacked someday and/or not knowing if it will be. The surface area that Azure/Microsoft have is just too large for i…
Okta is also a prime target for hackers, and likely has a smaller security budget than Microsoft.
Re: Microsoft lost its keys, and the government got hacked
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
And yet, fascinatingly, very very little discussion. 60-ish comments was the most on any of those posts.
This really surprised me when I learned of this story on the weekend. Very little discussion, very little reception in IT news. Someone hacked Azure AD [1] and accessed the data of 25+ orgs and the reaction is *crickets*? [1] I'm not exactly sure which Azure component was hacked and the MS communication seems intentionally unclear and obtuse on this. It sounds like the private keys of Azure-internal auth servers were…
This is not even the first time this year that Azure AD has been owned sideways.
See this mind-blowing blog post from Wiz where they live edited bing.com search results, injected XSS into O365, accessed exabytes of internal MS file storage and more: https://www.wiz.io/blog/azure-active-directory-bing-misconfi...
I have no idea how Azure maintains its reputation as a safe enterprise choice. Microsoft really just has an almost impenetrable reputation I guess?