Microsoft reported a breach by Russian group ‘Midnight Blizzard,’ which accessed internal systems and source code using stolen authentication secrets from a January cyberattack. The unauthorized access was facilitated by a compromised non-production test account lacking multi-factor authentication and linked to an OAuth app with elevated privileges. Microsoft is contacting affected customers and has ramped up security measures to counter the persistent threat.
I love the closed source model, where only blackhats get to see the source code that whitehats never had the chance to report bugs on!
it keeps the bug count down 😏
It’s also better code, obviously. Less people to push bad code. Why else is Linux so niche if it’s so great and open source?
Edit: Lol /s is apparently needed. Thought it was obvious :D
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Microsoft does share source code of both client and server versions of Windows with 3rd parties. At some point it was shared also with FSB.
Oh, no. Imagine all the havoc that could be wrought if the source code for an operating system was released onto the internet /s
That’s why you should never rely on security through obscurity.
– Sent from my Linux desktop
I hope these hackers didn’t also get the source code to RockyLinux or I’m screwed man. If all you need is source code access, I won’t be safe after that. :-)
I don’t think that is the concern here.
Microsoft is a huge cloud provider now.
What OS does that cloud utilize?
What does it matter?
Source code is available for most of their infrastructure is what I’m saying.
Inconcievably.
wouldn’t the counterpoint to that be all the vulnerabilities that have sat out in the open for years before finally being reported?
Chances are it didn’t involve the OS source code. If you read the article, previously Microsoft reported about source code for service components like Exchange, Azure etc.
Gosh I hope no one breaches kernel.org and gets the Linux source code!
I really hope gnu.org doesn’t get hacked and gets the graphical source code! /s
I know this isn’t what this is, but I dream of the day that someone gets hold of the source code for Windows 10/11 and just dumps it onto the internet, and then some other enterprising soul uses it to make a version of Windows that runs all the apps but has all the Microsoft bullshit removed.
I’m sure it’ll never happen, but it’s nice to think about.
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Someday, years from now, we will finally have Windows 10 Gold Edition.
Haha I had no idea that existed!
Using ‘username’ and ‘password’ as credentials is basically Microsoft going open sauce.
How the fuck does MS get hacked to the point where source code is leaked? It wouldn’t be sitting on a server called win-src-01 in their DMZ. I assume it is on servers within networks that a firewalled off from the regular network that only developers can get to and Peggy-Sue in Accounts can’t.
They want to release the source code for Wordpad.exe
Oh no!
Anyways.
Midnight Blizzard hacks Microsoft again
Today, Microsoft says that Midnight Blizzard is using secrets found in the stolen data to gain access to some of the company’s systems and source code repositories in recent weeks.
