New Delhi. Microsoft on Thursday issued a major warning to its cloud computing customers, including the world’s leading companies, due to technical glitches. In a warning issued by the company, it was said that cyber criminals can read or change your database. This information was given by Reuters citing a copy of an email and cyber security researchers. According to cyber security researchers, the technical flaw lies in Microsoft Azure’s flagship Cosmos DB database.
A research team from cyber security company Vij found that technical flaws have enabled cybercriminals to access keys that control access to databases held by thousands of companies. Let us tell you that Ami Lutwak, Chief Technology Officer of Wiz, has been the Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft’s Cloud Security Group.
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40 thousand dollars offered to remove the shortcomings
Cybersecurity company Vij claimed that Microsoft could not change those keys on its own. So he emailed customers on Thursday asking them to create new keys. In addition, Microsoft offered to pay Wiz $40,000 in exchange for finding and reporting the deficiencies, according to an email from Microsoft to Wiz.
Microsoft claimed this
In an email issued to its customers after the technical glitches were identified and solutions emerged, Microsoft said that the technical flaws have been fixed. So far there is no evidence that anyone took advantage of this. We have no indication as to whether external entities outside of Vij’s researchers had access to the primary read-write key.
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Jupyter Notebook tool had drawbacks
In a statement to Reuters, Wiz’s chief technology officer Ami Lutvak said that it was such a big flaw that you can’t even imagine. This is a long lasting mystery. This is Azure’s central database and we were able to get access to any customer database. He pointed out that the drawback was in a visualization tool called Jupyter Notebook. In fact, Lutvak’s team discovered a problem called ChaosDB on August 9 and reported it to Microsoft on August 12.
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