News
Warning over Azure Service Tags vulnerability backed by infosec pros
Tenable research "revealed an attack surface most users of Azure service were probably not accounting for..."
Cloud
UK gas utility eyes "high-risk" shift to Azure, frets over ICS security
"A requirement to bring unmanaged and unsupported ICS devices under proper governance and control..."
Azure
Azure West Europe wobbles after generator failover fail
Upstream utility disturbance triggers brief bout of sweating with "a small amount of storage nodes" needing to be recovered manually in the wake of the Azure incident,
Cloud
AWS, Azure face cloud competition probe over concentration, data egress concerns
"High profitability, a concentrated market structure and limited levels of switching are likely indicators that cloud providers are not facing sufficiently strong competitive constraints."
Azure
Microsoft clams up over critical Azure key breach, security incident as attackers breach US agencies
Following a major security breach involving US federal agencies, Microsoft refuses to provide details on the incident
Azure
Microsoft admits “insecure pattern” in Azure AD exposed customers to risk of data loss, account takeover
"The risk is mainly with multi-tenant applications where this misconfiguration could result [in] account and privilege escalation" -- here's what you need to do.
Enterprise IT
Ubuntu wants your CIO to love a Lunar Lobster
Canonical comes gunning for Windows, with a little help from Microsoft...
Cybersecurity
Pentagon CIOs slapped over cloud security by auditors days before 3TB of emails exposed
Days before the exposure this week of over three terabytes of military emails owing to misconfigured Azure services, the US Department of Defense (DoD)’s Inspector General had warned Pentagon CIOs that their teams were not properly reviewing documentation designed to ensure military cloud security – and running systems with unmitigated
Cloud
Azure spending notifications outage to last 6 weeks
Redmond suggests partners "regularly review unbilled usage data for cost spikes"
Enterprise IT
5 key takeaways from Microsoft’s earnings
CapEx, a cloud slowdown, and more...
Cloud
Enterprise ChatGPT on Azure? For now, Satya Nadella's just a tease
Is it all just a "nothing burger"?
Cloud
Microsoft vows an EU "data boundary" for customer, telemetry data
The move comes under huge pressure on sovereignty from EU policy makers