Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Everything Can Be Hacked”.
Chinese hackers get into government emails through Microsoft, Azure, okay, I saw that you had added this as a main topic and I was like really a main topic. Well, the only reason why I wanted it to be main uh was just because I want to continue keeping stuff like this top of mind for people, okay, because something else that happened this week now to insert the other topic. Um is uh. So does this count as two topics or is this one topic? Is it one and a half topics? It’S just. Maybe one dance sign says two more topics.
Oh I see so I’m I think one. This is one I think, one okay, so one fat topic, Sky, Oblivion, I’m pretty sure I’ve talked about that on this show before. Yes, you have Oblivion, built into Skyrim, with massive high-res, uh assets and and custom voice acting and all this amazing everything I’ve heard about it, but I feel like I’m about to get some bad news. The main person running it as far as my understanding goes. Oh they’re, Discord. Uh oh, got taken over the same way that our YouTube channel got taken over session hijack yeah and that person got access to. As far as my understanding goes, the like more public discussion, Discord and also the developer and working Discord and just started wrecking Havoc um. They were sent to file, as they are many times a day by someone on their team.
We don’t believe. Well, I don’t believe sorry, I shouldn’t say we because I’m in an only very light communication with this person uh, I don’t believe it’s like an inside job situation. He said something along the lines of like he thinks their account also got session hijacked and then that person used theirs to session hijacked.
The last one yeah took quite a long time um to get resolved. I think it was like over a day and a half, so they had a very long time to just wreck things. Yeah um and that’s brutal, so be very careful because not only can we have our Channel get hacked, but the government of America can get hacked and also really cool. I can’t imagine a single reason why anyone would want to damage it. Volunteer project can get hacked yeah so like don’t imagine that, just because you know you’re cool and no one should hate you that it’s something to wreck your stuff.
Yeah people do things for un understandable reasons, but anyways back to the actual core topic. I guess. According to Microsoft, Chinese state-affiliated hackers exploited Microsoft’s, Azure cloud services to access the email accounts of around 25 organizations, including European and American government agencies. The hackers got a hold of a Microsoft consumer.
Signing key through unknown means and used it to forge digital authentication, tokens to access Outlook accounts through a security flaw in Microsoft’s validation system. This somehow allowed the hackers to access the email accounts of Microsoft’s Enterprise Azure service clients. The hack first occurred, mid-may unusual activity was noticed by an unspecified U.S government agency, interesting uh on June 16th.
The government then informed Microsoft. A spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs did deny the attack but accused the US of being the world’s biggest hacking Empire. Microsoft announced two other similar hacks earlier this week, one where its validation procedure was manipulated to digitally sign dozens of pieces of software and one where Russian criminals exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in its office program discussion. How do these kinds of major oversights happen? Is there a danger of over centralization when large corporations like Microsoft host data, for so many different world governments, I mean yeah, yes, the answer is uh is is yes that is. That is a huge danger.
I mean that’s one of the reasons why we actually talked about this with the pornographic site that was required by I think Louisiana. I don’t know it was oh yeah, some American state was requiring people to verify their identity in order to access the pornographic material on the site, and we we had talked about how that is not a good solution, because all you’re doing is creating a gigantic Honeypot And the more entities online that are collecting this like highly highly dangerous uh, like just high risk data um. I forget how I started the sentence.
The point is honeypots yeah, that’s that’s! Basically, all they turn into and the more of these you have the more surface area you have to be attacked via, like it’s we’ve talked about this before, but like the amount of ease of use and scalability and functionality and cost savings, and all this kind of Stuff that can be gained by certain things being more digitized things like power, infrastructure and other things like that is immense. But when you do that type of stuff, you open yourself up for these types of attacks, um, and I think, if anything, this type of stuff is just going to keep ramping up over time. I don’t think it’s going to slow down at all there.
One of the discussion questions was: how do these kind of major oversights happen? It’S just bugs man, it’s just zero days, they’re in everything like this is why, for so long, we’ve talked about how you should treat. Nothing is actually being secure because it isn’t like, especially with how everything is so reliant on everything else. All the time like your your setup might be quite secure and then something that it relies on updates and it’s like well baby. It’S not anymore, and now you have to reevaluate and like the the chance you’re always going to be perfect. All the time is basically zero, so you’re saying that I need more Developers yeah and you want a bigger team. We are actually hiring more people.
If you go to line Speedline, speedygroup.com jobs, we are looking for two front-end Developers for flow plane right now. There’S also a back-end posting there, I’m not taking it down because it’s in like a tenuous position, it might be done and if it is done, I want the resume. I’M a little stressed right now. Um, normally you know we get a few dots in Europe. Oh, no, you guys did free global Shipping. That’S why the spelling’s been so weird there’s so many merch messages. Thoughts in Europe are just everywhere. Yeah.
I don’t think you guys can see this yeah, but, like almost all of Germany is lit up literally over over. This is what happens when you start so late, freaking, Iceland. Oh let’s go. I don’t remember the last time we shipped anything to Iceland, India.
I almost never see a dot in India, there’s like 10 right now. Also, oh, no Australia is Australia, just fully blue or what’s going on. No it’s but there’s lots uh. It doesn’t help that the show is so late, so we probably have a disproportionate number of Australians and Europeans watching it’s like uh, it’s just starting in the morning.
There so a lot of people are thanking me, for this is like the first time I’ve ever had caught a Wan show live okay, my fingers hurt um cool .