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    Gotta love these kind of news. There’s always these hypothetical discussions of clouds being insecure and companies generally just ignore that, because clouds are theoretically, sometimes cheaper.

    And then every now and then, half the internet leaks out of one of these clouds and everyone’s like, holy crap, and then companies go back to generally just ignoring that, because clouds are theoretically, sometimes cheaper.

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      Unfortunately nobody in charge has seen consequences for their decision to save a few theoretical nickels, so far. But then again, a lot of software/IT related stuff would look completely different, if anybody did.

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        Yeah, with the GDPR, you could theoretically get sued for using inappropriate technologies, but unless a proper expert committee officially declares Azure et al unsalvagable, you can always say, you thought you were using safe technologies.

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      I do not think anyone belive clouds are cheaper. For a stable workload probably 2x as expecive. Especially when you also count the new finops department you need to know what you are actually paying for in the cloud.

      What cloud do give is virtualy infinite capacity, infinite scale out performance, instant availabillity and scaleabillity up to a global presence, no up-front cost, no tear down cost, bragging rights, no long running contracts and api’s for EVERYTHING.

      Edit: I did see you write theoretically ;)

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        Let me add another important point: outsourcing responsibility. In case of a data breach, you have someone to sue and you don’t need a whole internal team to be up to date on the latest security topics. Instead, they just have to be able to manage the web interface (not saying that is easy, just less subject to changes)

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          Ding ding ding. It’s all about outsourcing accountability as much as possible. Always need a finger to point at if things go wrong.

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      Given the average company I believe the cloud being more secure, of course they can shoot themselves d in the foot in the cloud as well but that wouldn’t be the cloud being insecure. The cheaper part… not sure if I would agree, it is more simple and easier to manage than your own physical hardware and all that entails, unless you require very little, that’s for sure.

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    The exposed data included backups of personal information belonging to Microsoft employees, including passwords for Microsoft services, secret keys, and an archive of over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages originating from 359 Microsoft employees.

    In an advisory on Monday by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) team, Microsoft said that no customer data was exposed, and no other internal services faced jeopardy due to this incident.

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    Microsoft said that no customer data was exposed.

    Well then, let’s break out the popcorn, this should be fun!

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      I am so glad that Microsoft always tells the truth so we can just take them at their word. It would be totally different if they had a history of lying and doing shady stuff.

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      As long as the data they lost doesn’t get more details, that get more detail that gets customer data… or anorher signing key…

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    That must be why I’ve been getting a million 2fa emails recently asking me to verify my Microsoft account sign in.

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      Hmm, by using Authy I wouldn’t receive these. They’d just be asked for the current code and unable to proceed.

      On the one hand I’m happy not getting spammed like you with 2fa requests. On the other, I think I’d like to know if any of my user/password pairs have been compromised.

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        Tbh I am not sure what he is talking about. I didn’t know Microsoft had 2FA by mail. They have their authenticator app, sms, physical key, windows auth (or whatever is called that the PC acts as key/2fa). I know of one case where you can get invited to an org and if you don’t have an azure account the login is done by a mail they sent you, but I wouldn’t call that 2FA. But I guess here is a mail version I didn’t know about.

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          Oh you’re right. I thought it was notification spam to the phone/watch that @Random_user was complaining about.

          There is an email MFA method for Hotmail/LiveID accounts, but M365 doesn’t have email as an authentication method. There’s Authenticator Lite, which comes through as a notificataion through the Outlook App on the phone, though. Not so many organisations use it because it’s fairly new and we’ve mostly been doing MFA for years by now.

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            Pretty sure the person who said they are getting 2fa emails was meaning that they are getting email alerts from Microsoft that says “we blocked these logins. Were they you?”

            Some service providers do this when they see large attempts to access accounts fail due to 2fa blocks.

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    I practically have tourette syndrome at this point I curse the absolute fuckwittery of Microsoft so often.

    Gtfo of “the cloud”. Don’t touch it. Don’t joke about touching it.