In case you haven’t heard, a bunch of the original KSP developers are teaming up with the DayZ guy’s company to make a spiritual sequel: Kitten Space Agency.

Because it’s Microsoft and they have to compulsively rename things every few years.

It’s mostly the responsibility of the client to build defense in depth. If is a straight shot from your Solarwinds server to your ADFS server, where the SAML signing keys are stored, that’s your fault, not Solarwinds or Microsoft. Well, I would still blame Solarwinds, because they were encouraging horribly insecure practices, like doing “agentless” monitoring using a highly privileged account.

In this case, yes, not letting a SAML assertion signed by the ADFS server authenticate to Azure reduces defense in depth. But if you’re at the point where your authentication servers have been compromised, you’re already so turbo-fucked that it’s very unlikely a wall like that would stop an attacker for long.

USB devices have a hard coded vendor identifier and product identifier built into them that are issued from a central authority. The ones I saw were easily identifiable as not legitimate mice.

Oof, that was painful to read as someone in cybersecurity. I respect ProPublica, but they have no idea what they’re talking about.

The Solarwinds hack was caused by Solarwinds being absolutely god awful at cybersecurity. The password to their update server was “solarwinds123”, which we know because they accidentally published it in a public Github repo. The company is a complete and utter clown show.

As for Golden SAML, almost nobody in cybersecurity would consider it a vulnerability. It’s just a fundamental part of how asymmetric cryptography works. HTTPS suffers from the same issue. If your private key gets stolen and used to forge signatures, the problem is you not properly protecting it, not the technology requiring you to keep it secret.

A more valid complaint is that Microsoft has been neglecting their on-prem software in favor of Azure. There are tons of security features that they’ve added to Azure that will probably never make their way to ADFS or Exchange.

I’ve been the one identifying the people who use jigglers. Usually it was a manager coming to us to look for a reason to fire a poor employee or a contractor trying to bill a suspiciously large number of hours for the work produced. If it was just poor performance, HR would make us do a PIP and waste 3 months on them. Violating security procedures and falsifying time sheets was an immediate termination. And for the contractors, you need evidence in order to refuse payment.

Btw, if you want to get away with it, don’t use a software or USB one. Get one that interfaces with a regular mouse. Modern cybersecurity software logs every process executed and device connected.

If you click other versions, there are installers without the adware.

Before SHAKEN/STIR was implemented, they probably would have gotten away with it. Hell, they probably did get away with it.

Or just have everyone’s phone number on file and pick up the phone and call them first.

That comment is so idiotic and/or bad faith that I totally get removing it. Better to remove it than clog up the comments with a dozen people trying to explain why they’re wrong and the OP likely sea lioning them all.

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

-LBJ

The advertising for SSRIs convinced a lot of people that depression is cause by not enough serotonin, so there’s this idea that serotonin = happiness.

If a bunch of “ironic” racists start using a symbol as a “joke” and one of them flashes it after murdering 50 people because of their religion, then it’s officially a hate symbol.