In a recent disclosure, Microsoft has admitted to a critical vulnerability within its mainstream Azure cloud service, which could potentially expose user accounts to unauthorized access. The vulnerability, named “nOAuth” by Descope, a renowned security software company, is present within Azure’s Active Directory, allowing hackers to exploit it and gain access to third-party websites using compromised Azure accounts. To exploit this vulnerability, hackers simply need to create an Azure account with administrator privileges and modify the account’s email address to that of an unsuspecting user. By utilizing the “Sign in with Microsoft” feature, hackers can easily log in to third-party websites, maliciously using the compromised Azure account.

This vulnerability will potentially affect a substantial portion of Azure users

The “nOAuth” vulnerability in Microsoft Azure’s Active Directory poses a range of risks to the system and its users. It enables hackers to gain unauthorized access to user accounts, potentially leading to data breaches, account takeovers, and manipulation of sensitive information. Compromised Azure accounts can be exploited to log in to third-party websites, putting those services and their users at risk as well. The consequences include financial loss, reputational damage, and potential legal ramifications. Prompt action from Microsoft, such as patching the vulnerability, strengthening security measures, and educating users, is essential to mitigate these risks and protect user accounts and data. User vigilance and reporting any suspicious activities are also crucial in combating this vulnerability. Imer Cohen, the Chief Security Officer at Descope, pointed out that this vulnerability stems from a flaw in Microsoft’s authentication design, leading to the emergence of the “nOAuth” vulnerability. The impact of this breach is significant, potentially affecting a substantial portion of Azure users.

Following the discovery of the breach, Microsoft acknowledged the vulnerability and issued a warning to all users, urging them to be cautious and avoid sharing their email information. By addressing this vulnerability, Microsoft is trying its best to uphold its commitment to user security and take proactive measures to safeguard its cloud service. Users are advised to remain vigilant, regularly update their account settings, and implement strong, unique passwords to mitigate the risk of unauthorized access.

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During the Oppo INNO Day 2022, the company launched a number of new products and unveiled its latest innovations in consumer technology. Among the new announcements, the AndesBrain was unveiled as well, so let’s have a look.

Earlier today (14th December 2022), the Chinese smartphone maker released devices like the OHealth H1 family monitor, Air Glass 2, and more. Apart from physical products, the brand even announced a new smart cloud service as well, which is dubbed the AndesBrain. The name of this cloud based technology was based on the real world Andes, which is the longest mountain range on the planet. The Andes Smart Cloud is a cross platform service and is aimed towards not just individuals, but entire families and developers as well.

The AndesBrain basically offers online data storage and smart computing services thanks to the cloud platform. It also comes with cross integration that helps users use the service across, smartphones, tablets, and PCs as well. However, this doesn’t end just end there as the integration support will include truly wireless earbuds, smartwatches, cameras, or even smart cars. Furthermore, the service is being offered by self built data centers as well.

The AndesBrain will also offer unlimited cloud albums, Xpress Office Space, Xiaobu Painting, comes with Xiaobu home robot support, and much more. Notably, the company is also planning on offering infinite storage on CubeFS for Android since it integrates cloud systems into its operating system’s layers. For those unaware, CubeFS is China’s first open source cloud native project. When paired with the AndesBrain, one can simply switch devices on the CubeFS platform, without having to migrate any of your data or data backup.

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Huami Technology announced a partnership with Amazon Could earlier this week on 25th March 2021. The two firms entered into a strategic partnership to ‘improve global competitiveness.’

The Chinese tech giant announced that it would be using Amazon Cloud Technology’s to leverage its global infrastructure and ‘industry leading security’, along with its cloud technology and services. Furthermore, the known wearables maker also stated that it would also use Amazon’s “chip end cloud,” which covers more than 70 countries and regions across the globe. The company also added that the collaboration would also raise competitiveness, while promoting rapid development in the global market.

Notably, the two companies will also be exploring further cooperation in the future for sectors like cloud based health services. The company said that the reason it chose Amazon Cloud Technology over other cloud based firms is for its flexibility and secure cloud computing environment that it offers. This marks a major partnership that will have Huami utilize the cloud expertise of Amazon.

Fan Meihui, co-founder of Huami Technology and rotating president of the Global Innovation Center stated that “The security and compliance capabilities of Amazon Cloud Technology help make users more trust us to ensure the security and privacy of their personal data, just as they trust Amazon Cloud Technology.”

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Huawei Technologies’ Consumer Business Group’s chief executive, Richard Yu, will be heading the company’s efforts into cloud services and artificial intelligence, as the firm expands to new and emerging markets.

According to an SCMP report, Richard Yu will take over as head of the two business units of the Chinese tech giant from the current lead Huo Jinlong. The news arrives via an internal memo being seen by SCMP. Furthermore, it was also reported that the senior executive will take on his new roles officially as of 7th February 2021. Furthermore, Huo will be transferred to the company’s digital power service, which is a unit under the telecom equipment maker’ carrier business group that deals in telecommunications network operators.

As per Kitty Fok, managing director of IDC China, “AI and cloud computing are the key growth areas in China over the next few years.Putting more focus and investments in AI and cloud computing is an important strategy for Huawei to capture future opportunities.” Unfortunately, Huawei has declined to comment on the matter of its internal management reshuffling at the moment. The report also arrives as the company is currently expanding and pushing towards newer growth market.

For those unaware, US sanctions have drastically impacts the Huawei’s primary business unit, its smartphone division, and has caused it to now focus on other core areas. A while back, the company’s Founder and CEO even called for decentralization as well, while Huawei also focuses more on its cloud computing services and other ventures, including cloud gaming, AI, virtual reality and augmented reality technologies. However, it remains to be seen what new hurdles awaits the company, especially now with the arrival of the new US president, Joe Biden.

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Ren Zhengfei, the CEO and founder of Huawei Technologies has stated that the company has to scale back on its enterprise businesses and focus more on its strategic areas.

According to a GlobalTimes report, the senior official of the Chinese tech giant stated this to the staff through a recent internal email. This indicates that the company might further adjust its strategies to better face the challenges and competition. Ren said that “Because we are a company with limited power, we must do well and fine-tune the projects we are going to do. We must seize opportunities in the areas where we can, focus our energies, and do a good job in a down-to-earth manner. Only then can we truly find a better solution than others.”

The founder also discussed the company’s cloud computing businesses and even said that the company must learn from the likes of Amazon and Microsoft. As per the founder, Huawei must use its 30 years’ worth of network experience as a unique advantage in the cloud computing market and stand out in the industry. Although, he further added that “But Huawei can’t take the same path as Alibaba and Amazon, since we don’t have ‘endless money’ from the US stock market like them.”

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According to Jiang Junmu, chief writer at C114.com, “Huawei’s enterprise is still limited in size and faces barriers to develop on a bigger scale, the points Ren mentioned are also some attempts the firm is going to make to try to break through the bottleneck.” Furthermore, Ren said that Huawei is currently discussing on “how to seize the opportunity of digitalization of government and enterprises, how to achieve better development in both, and how to achieve the world’s leading position.”

In other words, the founder believes that the company must “go all out” to build a large application ecosystem like Amazon to grow its Huawei Cloud business. It also has to downscale on its enterprise businesses and focus more on strengthening its software and application ecosystems that would be more beneficial to the brand at the moment.

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As Huawei Technologies struggles under the impacts of the US sanctions, the company’s founder Ren Zhengfei said that the smartphone maker is now looking towards cloud services as its primary focus, over its smartphone and 5G operations.

According to an SCMP report, the senior executive of the Chinese tech giant had made the announcement in an internal speech back in November 2020. The founder had said that the company must build up its strength in cloud services and that the brand needed to also make a “breakthrough” in the field. The official added that “It is impossible for us to simply follow the same path as Alibaba and Amazon … They have access to unlimited money in the US stock market.”

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“Our enterprise business needs to scale back its battlefront … If our strategy is too broad, we will lose our combat strength.” Companies like Amazon are tech conglomerates with businesses spanning e-commerce, video streaming, and even cloud computing among various other businesses as well. Unlike these firms, Huawei has mostly focused on its telecom equipment services and its popular smartphone business.

As per Ren, the company should learn from companies like Amazon and Microsoft, both of which are major names in the global cloud services field. These brands focus on infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). For those unaware, customers of these companies pay a fee to utilize their computing resources such as networking and data storage. At the moment, Huawei is already a leading cloud service provider in China, alongside Alibaba and Tencent. Although, its presence in the global market is still scarce, despite there currently being a surge in demand for could services.

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The Xiaomi backed Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Ltd. is set to debut this Friday (8th May 2020). The company has set the terms of its initial public offerings that may be one of the largest Chinese company listings in New York this year.

The company aims to raise 450 million US Dollars on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. Furthermore, it hopes to sell 25 million American depositary shares, which it expects within the range of 16 to 18 Dollars per ADS. Kingsoft Cloud Holdings is a subsidiary of the Kingsoft Group, with a major investor being Xiaomi Corp, which has indicated an interest in 50 million US Dollars worth of ADSs.

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Kingsoft claims that it is China’s largest independent cloud based service provider and that it aims to monetize on the growing applications of networking and technology. This includes increasing scope of 5G networking, artificial intelligence, IoT (Internet of Things), and demand for multi-cloud and neutrality that are also supported by favorable government policies.

This is a big deal considering the public debut arrives at a time where Chinese companies are being scrutinized across the globe, especially by US investors. Other Chinese brands like Oriental Culture and MingZhu Logistics are still waiting for their public entry, but Kingsoft Cloud has had a rather quick and uneventful run to Wall Street. But will Kingsoft Cloud change the perception around Chinese companies in the US? We can only wait and find out.

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Huawei has been facing large scale failure of its Cloud services in China. Reports from many users started flooding in earlier today (10th April 2020), and the issue seems to largely affect China, with its website and service being unavailable.

Many Weibo users, a Chinese microblogging website, shared posts online regarding the Huawei Cloud services being unavailable. They shared issues like being unable to login and more. A few people even shared screenshots online that showed them using the Chinese tech giant’s service, but being greeted by the messages saying that the service was down.

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These included messages like, “The server is temporarily overloaded or under maintenance. Please try again later,” or “An error occurred while establishing a database connection.” Certain individuals online even claimed that the loss of the service had grave impacts on their enterprises or businesses. Furthermore, a few even reported on Huawei smartphones exploding, which seems highly unlikely.

Since the Cloud service was down, people in China couldn’t access a few applications or play games either. Unfortunately, Huawei has yet to make an official statement regarding this outage. Thus, it is currently unknown what caused the failure and many are asking Huawei when the issue will be resolved. So stay tuned for more news which should arrive soon

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Huawei, the Chinese electronics giant, has recently announced a new collaboration. The company will be working with Sberbank, which is Russia’s largest bank, to develop cloud services in the country for business endeavors.

For those unaware, Huawei is a lot more than just a consumer electronics brand and is well known in the telecommunications industry as well, being a leading figure in 5G networking. Through the collaboration with Sberbank, Huawei plans on building a cloud computing service for Russian businesses.

The service is called SberCloud.Advanced and will target clients that are small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and even start ups. In other words, the cloud services are not directly targetted towards customers but through clients that might use their services in the country. These clients will have access to 37 new cloud services servers which will be integrated into a single streamlined system.

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According to Wang Wei, Huawei’s Director General in Russia, the partnership with Sberbank is likely to notably advance Russia’s digital prospects. In other words, boost its e-commerce presence in a global sense. He also stated that “this partnership truly represents a landmark for the Russian cloud services market.” In recent years, the Sberbank has been steadily transforming itself into an online service provider alongside its banking services. Thus, it marks a bold shift, especially from a state run organization.

SberCloud’s Director General Evgeny Kolbin mentioned that “this is an exclusive offer for the market, consisting of interconnected cloud services complementing each other, which gives the client a single convenient approach to using these services, a variety of the most modern IT platforms, as well as built-in tools for monitoring and controlling the cloud infrastructure.”

In simpler terms, the interconnectivity and platform being provided is a major focus of the newly developing cloud service. Its implications are said to be broad and the infrastructure being provided will match modern IT platforms, with top notch technology and assistance from Huawei.

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