The first dominos to fall in the massive Microsoft breach (see above) will be government entities in the US and Europe. Starting that trend, the European Banking Authority has announced that it’s been impacted. EBA officials say that personal data may have been accessed from its servers. The agency has taken its email system offline…
Microsoft recently reported that suspected Chinese nation-state actors have exploited a flaw in Exchange that has given them access to data and/or email accounts. According to estimates 30,000 or so customers and 18,000 servers were affected. This flaw impacts a broad range of customers, from small businesses to local and state governments and some military…
Four (4) zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server are being actively exploited by Hafnium, which the State Department believes is a state sponsored group that typically targets US entities with the goal of exfiltrating data. The zero-day vulnerabilities in Exchange, according to Microsoft, include the following: CVE-2021-26855 – Vulnerability allowing outside party to make untrusted connection…
Serverless computing is a misnomer. Computing is impossible without the presence of a machine. Just like a virus needs a host, code can also not run in thin air, it needs machine resources to take input, process, and then produce output. So then what is serverless computing, and why is it gaining so much popularity? Basically serverless computing is…
