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• Zero day in the cloud

  Posted on July 24, 2023 at 02:42 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  ON SECURITY

  

  By Susan Bradley

  If you are a consumer, home user, small-business user, or even a medium-sized business user, today’s column may anger you — or at least cause you to mutter, “I told you so.”

  For those of you who work in large companies and government entities, your size allows you to complain more loudly than most. I hope you will, because the event I’m about to discuss, plus all our past and present complaints, should make all cloud vendors, especially Microsoft, take note.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.30.0, 2023-07-24).

  On Security Cloud, CVE-2023-32019, Email, Email security, Microsoft, Newsletters, Patch Lady Posts

• Is the cloud unsafe?

  Posted on May 10, 2021 at 01:00 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  ON SECURITY

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Using the cloud isn’t always a bad thing.

  During this year of the pandemic, we’ve pivoted from doing many things in person to many things online. In my industry, one of the key changes is moving from in-person meetings to online meetings via services such as Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. Another is doing more and more financial transactions online, including accounting for them.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.17.0 (2021-05-10).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, On Security AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Cloud, On Security, Passwords, Patch Lady Posts

• The Cloud ain’t ready for prime time

  Posted on May 14, 2011 at 04:49 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  My latest article in Windows Secrets (which is part of the paid portion of the newsletter – remember you can sign up for the paid version and choose how much you want to pay) talks about Cloud problems.

  And right on cue, it looks like BPOS, Microsoft’s precursor to Office 365, is having problems with Exchange Server. It’s been going on all week. Looks like quite a few people couldn’t get their mail.

  Other BPOS, Cloud, Office 365

• The perils of patching in the cloud

  Posted on August 14, 2010 at 04:53 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Cloud computing is supposed to be the way to go, right? When there’s a new version of a program, there’s no need to patch a hundred million PCs, you only have to patch one copy of the app, up there in the cloud, right?

  Wrong.

  Other Cloud, patching