Security is an ever changing target.
As technologies improve to help us maintain a higher level of security new methods are being developed to take advantage of those new processes.
Expecting our security posture to be strong as we stand still when it comes to that security is a self defeating effort.
Take our Microsoft Accounts as an example. Microsoft already monitors those accounts, which provide the core connectivity to everything we do and access with Microsoft, to make you aware if any attempts are made to access your account.
In the past we never knew if these were sophisticated attacks or just random but
Microsoft has now decided to let us know if they determine these attacks are coming from hackers who are working for a
nation state.
We’re taking this additional step of specifically letting you know if we have evidence that the attacker may be “state-sponsored” because it is likely that the attack could be more sophisticated or more sustained than attacks from cybercriminals and others. These notifications do not mean that Microsoft’s own systems have in any way been compromised.
