Microsoft Security: An Ominous Signification
March 22, 2021
IT News published “White House Taskforce Meets over Microsoft Software Weaknesses.” The “real news” story included a statement which I placed in the predictive bucket. Here’s the prose which caught my attention:
The security holes in the widely used mail and calendaring software leave the door open to industrial-scale cyber espionage, allowing malicious actors to steal emails virtually at will from vulnerable servers or to move elsewhere in the network.
Microsoft is pretty good at issuing magic fixes; for example, “Microsoft Releases One-Click Patch for Exchange Vulnerability” reveals:
Microsoft has released a one-click patch, the Microsoft Exchange On-Premises Mitigation tool, to help customers apply new security updates in the face of the Exchange Server cyber attack.
This IT Pro article points out:
ESET research found that Microsoft Exchange servers had been targeted by “at least ten hacker groups” and that they had managed to install backdoors on more than 5,000 servers in over 115 countries.
In this context the phrase “industrial scale cyber espionage” is doubly chilling.
Now about that JEDI contract for the US Department of Defense?
Stephen E Arnold, March 22, 2021
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