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Microsoft expands Sovereign Cloud security with governance, local productivity and AI

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Microsoft expands Sovereign Cloud security with governance, local productivity and AI 2026-02-24 at 15:26 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft expands Microsoft Sovereign Cloud with new disconnected and AI capabilities that help organizations run critical infrastructure, productivity services and large AI models inside sovereign boundaries while keeping governance and operational continuity across connected and disconnected environments. Sovereign […]

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European companies hit with effective DocuSign-themed phishing emails

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European companies hit with effective DocuSign-themed phishing emails 2024-12-18 at 14:07 By Zeljka Zorz A threat actor looking to take over the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure of European companies has successfully compromised accounts of multiple victims in different firms, according to Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers. The phishing campaign The attack started earlier this

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Microsoft lost some customers’ cloud security logs

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Microsoft lost some customers’ cloud security logs 2024-10-18 at 16:46 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft has lost several weeks of cloud security logs that its customers rely on to spot cyber intrusions. What happened As reported by Business Insider earlier this month, Microsoft privately notified affected customers of this incident and told them the failure was

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Mandatory MFA for Azure sign-ins is coming

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Mandatory MFA for Azure sign-ins is coming 2024-08-19 at 12:31 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft is making multi-factor authentication (MFA) – “one of the most effective security measures available” – mandatory for all Azure sign-ins. Preparing for mandatory MFA for Azure The plan is for the shift to happen in two phases: October 2024: MFA will

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Microsoft: DDoS defense error amplified attack on Azure, leading to outage

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Microsoft: DDoS defense error amplified attack on Azure, leading to outage 2024-07-31 at 13:46 By Zeljka Zorz A DDoS attack that started on Tuesday has made a number of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 services temporarily inaccessible, the company has confirmed. Microsoft’s mitigation statement on the Azure status history page Microsoft Azure, 365 outage triggered

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Attackers abuse OAuth apps to initiate large-scale cryptomining and spam campaigns

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Attackers abuse OAuth apps to initiate large-scale cryptomining and spam campaigns 13/12/2023 at 16:46 By Helga Labus Attackers are compromising high-privilege Microsoft accounts and abusing OAuth applications to launch a variety of financially-motivated attacks. Abusing OAuth applications OAuth is an open standard authentication protocol that uses tokens to grant applications access to server resources without

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18 free Microsoft Azure cybersecurity resources you should check out

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18 free Microsoft Azure cybersecurity resources you should check out 20/09/2023 at 07:33 By Help Net Security Far exceeding a traditional public cloud platform, Azure is a comprehensive suite of over 200 products and cloud services engineered to solve current challenges and pave the way for the future. Whether you’re looking to build, run, or

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Assess multi-cloud security with the open-source CNAPPgoat project

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Assess multi-cloud security with the open-source CNAPPgoat project 03/08/2023 at 07:31 By Help Net Security Ermetic released CNAPPgoat, an open-source project that allows organizations to test their cloud security skills, processes, tools, and posture in interactive sandbox environments that are easy to deploy and destroy. It is available on GitHub. CNAPPgoat supports AWS, Azure (Microsoft

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Open-source penetration testing tool BloodHound CE released

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Open-source penetration testing tool BloodHound CE released 02/08/2023 at 06:32 By Mirko Zorz SpecterOps released version 5.0 of BloodHound Community Edition (CE), a free and open-source penetration testing solution that maps attack paths in Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Azure (including Azure AD/Entra ID) environments. It is available for free on GitHub. Identifying simple Attack

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