Tag: Microsoft Azure
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OAuthSeeker: Red Team Tool for OAuth Phishing Attacks Against Azure and Office365
OAuthSeeker is an red team tool for performing phishing attacks using malicious OAuth applications to compromise user identities within Microsoft Azure and Office365. Features OAuthSeeker provides the following key features: Azure App OAuth Phishing: Perform OAuth phishing attacks targeting Microsoft Azure and Office365 users to gain access to Microsoft Graph API and Microsoft Azure resources. Admin Control…
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Internal Errors Plague Cloud Giants: AWS, Azure, & Cloudflare Hit by Configuration Outages
The autumn wave of unpredictable disruptions across major cloud platforms has demonstrated that internal configuration and metadata errors have become the modern equivalent of large-scale power outages. Over the span of four weeks, problems affected AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Cloudflare, with each incident traced back to failures within the providers’ own infrastructures. These outages had…
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Entraspray: Password spraying tool for Microsoft Online accounts
Entraspray Entraspray is a rewrite of MSOLSpray in Python. The main purpose of this tool remains the same: to perform password spraying against Microsoft Azure accounts while also providing detailed information about account status and errors; such as if MFA is enabled, if a tenant or user doesn’t exist, if the account is locked or…
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CVE-2023-36052: Microsoft Addresses Critical Azure Vulnerability
Microsoft has released a security update to address a critical vulnerability in the Azure CLI that could be exploited by attackers to recover plaintext passwords and usernames from log files created by the affected CLI commands. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-36052, enables unauthenticated attackers to remotely access plain text contents written by Azure CLI to…
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Microsoft and AMD are working together to create AI-specific chips
In April, there were reports that Microsoft was developing its own AI-dedicated processor, codenamed Athena. Now, there is a follow-up to this news: Microsoft is financially supporting AMD’s entry into the AI chip market, with AMD taking responsibility for the development of AI chips. It comes as no surprise that Microsoft is developing AI chips,…
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Microsoft Earnings Release FY22 Q4: Cloud computing business falls short of market expectations for the first time
Microsoft announced its Q4 financial report for fiscal 2022 last night. The financial report showed that the net profit for the quarter was $18.765 billion, which was higher than market expectations of $17.534 billion. Although most of Microsoft’s businesses are still growing, some core businesses such as cloud computing have not met analysts’ expectations, causing…
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Microsoft decided to migrate “Minecraft” to the Azure cloud computing platform
The well-known game Minecraft was developed by Mojang Studio, but the Mojang Studio was previously acquired by Microsoft at a large cost, so the game is now owned by Microsoft. What’s interesting is that Minecraft has used Amazon Web Services over the years, and Microsoft is currently competing fiercely with Amazon in the cloud computing…
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Goldman Sachs: Microsoft is gradually winning the battle for cloud services
A recent survey by Goldman Sachs shows that Microsoft is still the most popular public cloud service provider despite Amazon’s overall revenue lead across the market. And Microsoft’s cloud market share will continue to grow, and further cloud growth will also boost Microsoft’s stock price. Take a look at Goldman Sachs’ report first. This is…
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Microsoft announced the satellite network connection for Azure
How to ensure the smooth network is an important issue in the era when cloud services are becoming more and more important. Most cloud computing providers use multiple redundant backups to deal with network disconnection. Under normal circumstances, if there is an abnormality in the data center of an area, it can automatically switch to…
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Linux becomes the most popular operating system on Microsoft Azure
Three years ago, Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft’s cloud computing Azure platform, said that a quarter of Azure instances are using Linux. By 2017, they announced that more than 40% of Azure VMs are running Linux. Today, Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft’s cloud computing and enterprise group, said in an interview that more than half of Azure…