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Security researchers at Wiz discover another major Azure vulnerability

Enlarge / This isn’t how the OMIGOD vulnerability works, of course—but lightning is much more photogenic than maliciously crafted XML. reader comments 31 with 20 posters participating, including story author Share this story Cloud security vendor Wiz—which recently made news by discovering a massive vulnerability in Microsoft Azure’s CosmosDB-managed database service—has found another hole in Azure.… Read More »

“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure

Enlarge / Cosmos DB is a managed database service offering—including both relational and noSQL data structures—belonging to Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure. reader comments 44 with 22 posters participating, including story author Share this story Cloud security vendor Wiz announced yesterday that it found a vulnerability in Microsoft Azure’s managed database service, Cosmos DB, that granted… Read More »

Microsoft boots apps out of Azure used by China-sponsored hackers

Enlarge / Computer chip with Chinese flag, 3d conceptual illustration. reader comments 74 with 43 posters participating Share this story Fortune 500 companies aren’t the only ones flocking to cloud services like Microsoft Azure. Increasingly, hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government are also hosting their tools in the cloud, and that’s keeping people… Read More »