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“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure
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“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. (credit: Microsoft) Cloud security vendor Wiz announced yesterday that it found a vulnerability in Microsoft Azure’s managed database service, Cosmos DB, that granted read/write access for every database on the service to any attacker...

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Need to get root on a Windows box? Plug in a Razer gaming mouse

Enlarge (credit: Razer) This weekend, security researcher jonhat disclosed a long-standing security bug in the Synapse software associated with Razer gaming mice. During software installation, the wizard produces a clickable link to the location where the software will be installed. Clicking that link opens a File Explorer window to the proposed location—but that File Explorer spawns...

Nude hunt: LA phisherman accessed 4,700 iCloud accounts, 620K photos
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Nude hunt: LA phisherman accessed 4,700 iCloud accounts, 620K photos

Enlarge / The Internet is unfortunately packed full of criminals seeking to steal sexual (or sexualizable) images from privately held cloud backup accounts. (credit: 1905HKN via Getty Images / Jim Salter) The LA Times reported this week that Los Angeles man Hao Kuo “David” Chi pled guilty to four federal felonies related to his efforts...