Mistakes were made, lessons learned, stuff now fixed, says Windows maker
Remember that internal super-secret Microsoft security key that China stole and used to break into US government email accounts back in July?
The IT titan keeps secrets like its consumer keys – which in the wrong hands can be used to create forged authentication tokens and log into other people's Microsoft accounts – in an isolated production network away from its day-to-day corporate network. As the biz put it: "A race condition allowed the key to be present in the crash dump ," the Microsoft Security Response Center"The key material's presence in the crash dump was not detected by our systems ," it added.
Even after the move, credential scanning systems did not detect the key and while the key was sitting in the crash dump on the general IT network, Storm-0558 compromised a Microsoft engineer's corporate account and swiped the digital key from the snapshot.
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