An accidentally disclosed SAS token with excessive privileges enabled researchers to access nearly 40TB of Microsoft’s data, highlighting the risks of privilege mismanagement and oversharing.
(www.computerweekly.com)
from Aboel3z@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev on 17 Dec 2023 08:01
https://programming.dev/post/7366657
from Aboel3z@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev on 17 Dec 2023 08:01
https://programming.dev/post/7366657
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Yeah my ex makes a lot of money basically sitting down with companies and over years (because it’s such an arduous process to get managers to understand the importantance of) make them slowly, ever so slowly, do proper access or even identity management.
I wonder how many data breaches or leaks happen that we don’t hear about. Is it like ten for every one that makes the news, or worse?
lol - follow our best practices - ironic. Of course documented best practices don’t mean everyone follows them, even internally, but that statement still makes for humorous irony. Ambiguous, almost implies, “follow how we did it here” in my reading.
Reading this, the drive to managed cloud and centralization feels like an effort to replace memory management issues as the top vulnerability cause. We - as an industry - are more aware of those as ever, and have interesting efforts like Rust adoption. And at the same time, hierarchical access tokens you can’t easily revoke, with arbitrary configured lifetimes and access, that are hard to monitor, track, and trace (from reading this article) are introduced as an entirely new set of risk and attack surface.