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Clouds are insane [View all]
I think cloud computing is a giant mistake. The companies putting my data in their clouds cannot be trusted to keep it safe. And with essentially no consequences of failure, they just keep doing it over and over and over again.
Every day brings news of another data compromise. And the one from today is massive:
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/massive-breach-spills-credentials-for-thousands-of-sensitive-networks/
Massive breach spills credentials for thousands of sensitive networks
The affected include Oracle, Lenovo, FedEx, a NATO contractor, and Fortinet.
Researchers have uncovered a massive breach of Fortinet firewalls that has given Russian-speaking attackers near-unrestricted access to some of the world’s largest and most powerful organizations, including Oracle, Chevron, Lenovo, Federal Express, a NATO defense contractor, and Fortinet itself.
Nearly 74,000 Fortinet devices from more than 21,000 IP addresses in 194 countries have been compromised and their plaintext credentials exposed online...
Nearly 74,000 Fortinet devices from more than 21,000 IP addresses in 194 countries have been compromised and their plaintext credentials exposed online...
What's Fortinet? From Wikipedia:
Fortinet, Inc. is an American cybersecurity company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It develops and sells security products including firewalls, endpoint security and intrusion detection systems.
So 74,000 devices designed to secure companies from the net have actually been a gateway into compromising those companies.
Oh, and how was this discovered? Not until this guy broke into the bad guy's computer:
Bob Diachenko, a security researcher and head of SecurityDiscovery.com, said online and in an interview. He said he found the data after gaining access to the attackers’ command-and-control server and other infrastructure.
The cloud is just somebody else's computer, and they're incompetent idiots.
And no, AI isn't a magic bullet. The solution is to make companies liable for data breaches. They are trusted caretakers of your information and they won't ever be secure until there are consequences that are more expensive than a day-long media blip.
[Thanks for letting me vent, you can put me on ignore now!]
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