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Microsoft Entra account lockouts caused by user token logging mishap
Microsoft confirms that the weekend Entra account lockouts were caused by the invalidation of short-lived user refresh tokens that were mistakenly logged into internal systems. On Saturday morning, numerous organizations reported that they began receiving Microsoft Entra alerts that accounts had leaked credentials, causing the accounts to be locked out automatically. Impacted customers initially thought the account lockouts were tied to the…
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Microsoft fixes Remote Desktop issues caused by Windows updates
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that caused problems with Remote Desktop and RDS connections after installing Windows updates released since January 2025. As the company explained when it acknowledged the issues on Monday, affected users experience RDP disconnections after 65 seconds when establishing UDP connections from Windows 11 24H2 to RDS hosts on systems running Windows Server 2016 earlier.…
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‘It’s your worst nightmare’: A batch of €5 hard drives found at a flea market held 15GB of Dutch medical records – and experts warn it could’ve caused a disastrous data breach
A Dutch IT company has demonstrated exactly how not to handle data protection after a number of hard drives containing sensitive medical data were found for sale at a Belgian flea market. First reported in Dutch broadcaster Omroep Brabant, 62-year-old Robert Polet from Breda found the hard drives on sale for roughly €5 each in a flea market after taking…
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Lee Enterprises newspaper disruptions caused by ransomware attack
Newspaper publishing giant Lee Enterprises has confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind ongoing disruptions impacting the group’s operations for over two weeks. As a local news provider and one of the largest newspaper groups in the United States, Lee publishes 77 daily newspapers and 350 weekly and specialty publications across 26 states. Its newspapers have a daily circulation of…
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Cloudflare outage caused by botched blocking of phishing URL
An attempt to block a phishing URL in Cloudflare’s R2 object storage platform backfired yesterday, triggering a widespread outage that brought down multiple services for nearly an hour. Cloudflare R2 is an object storage service similar to Amazon S3, designed for scalable, durable, and low-cost data storage. It offers cost-free data retrievals, S3 compatibility, data replication across multiple locations, and…
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Abandoned S3 buckets could have caused a catastrophic supply chain attack – and all at a cost of just $400
Abandoned cloud storage buckets were ripe to be taken over by cyber criminals and used to conduct a supply chain attack that would have dwarfed the 2020 SolarWinds incident, according to new research. A report from watchTowr Labs demonstrated how attackers could potentially exploit unused cloud storage buckets to gain access to sensitive networks of national governments, militaries, and major…
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Proton worldwide outage caused by Kubernetes migration, software change
Swiss tech company Proton, which provides privacy-focused online services, says that a Thursday worldwide outage was caused by an ongoing infrastructure migration to Kubernetes and a software change that triggered an initial load spike. As the company revealed yesterday in an incident report published on its status page, the outage started around 10:00 AM ET. Proton users reported that they…
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5 Problems on Your Computer That Might be Caused by Malware
Malware is the scary boogeyman of computers, supposedly capable of destroying everything you know and love. But what does it actually look like? How can you tell when your computer is infected? If your computer has any of the following problems, that could be a dead giveaway. 1 Your Browser is Forcefully Redirected Without Warning Forceful redirects are a huge…
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Delta sues CrowdStrike for $500 million in damages, claims “cutting corners” caused infamous July outage
Delta has made good on its promise to sue CrowdStrike after an update knocked the American airline’s systems offline, costing as much as $500 million. On July 19 2024, security company CrowdStrike rolled out an update to its Falcon detection system, but a flaw in the code crashed 8.5 million computers running Microsoft Windows, knocking banks, retailers, and airlines offline.…
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Microsoft fixes Remote Desktop issues caused by Windows Server update
Microsoft says this month’s Patch Tuesday cumulative updates fix a known issue that causes Windows servers to disrupt Remote Desktop connections in enterprise networks after installing the July Windows Server security updates. Redmond first confirmed this known issue following many reports from Windows admins that the RD Gateway service kept crashing every 30 minutes after installing the July updates. Admins…
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