Artists who rips off other great works are still developing their talent and skills. They can then go on to use to make original works. The machine will never produce anything original. It is only capable of mixing together things it has seen in its training set.
There is a very real danger that of ai eviscerating the ability for artists to make a living, making it where very few people will have the financial ability to practice their craft day in and day out, resulting in a dearth of good original art.
It’s mostly the responsibility of the client to build defense in depth. If is a straight shot from your Solarwinds server to your ADFS server, where the SAML signing keys are stored, that’s your fault, not Solarwinds or Microsoft. Well, I would still blame Solarwinds, because they were encouraging horribly insecure practices, like doing “agentless” monitoring using a highly privileged account.
In this case, yes, not letting a SAML assertion signed by the ADFS server authenticate to Azure reduces defense in depth. But if you’re at the point where your authentication servers have been compromised, you’re already so turbo-fucked that it’s very unlikely a wall like that would stop an attacker for long.
Oof, that was painful to read as someone in cybersecurity. I respect ProPublica, but they have no idea what they’re talking about.
The Solarwinds hack was caused by Solarwinds being absolutely god awful at cybersecurity. The password to their update server was “solarwinds123”, which we know because they accidentally published it in a public Github repo. The company is a complete and utter clown show.
As for Golden SAML, almost nobody in cybersecurity would consider it a vulnerability. It’s just a fundamental part of how asymmetric cryptography works. HTTPS suffers from the same issue. If your private key gets stolen and used to forge signatures, the problem is you not properly protecting it, not the technology requiring you to keep it secret.
A more valid complaint is that Microsoft has been neglecting their on-prem software in favor of Azure. There are tons of security features that they’ve added to Azure that will probably never make their way to ADFS or Exchange.
I’ve been the one identifying the people who use jigglers. Usually it was a manager coming to us to look for a reason to fire a poor employee or a contractor trying to bill a suspiciously large number of hours for the work produced. If it was just poor performance, HR would make us do a PIP and waste 3 months on them. Violating security procedures and falsifying time sheets was an immediate termination. And for the contractors, you need evidence in order to refuse payment.
Btw, if you want to get away with it, don’t use a software or USB one. Get one that interfaces with a regular mouse. Modern cybersecurity software logs every process executed and device connected.
This isn’t a new issue. Wolfram alpha has been around for 15 years and can easily handle high school level math problems.