Bill Gates, the former CEO of Microsoft and one of the richest men in the world, said in a tweet on Monday that he and his wife of 27 years, Melinda Gates, are getting divorced. “After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to…
Microsoft Could Reap More Than $150 Million in New US Cyber Spending, Upsetting Some Lawmakers
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON—Microsoft stands to receive nearly a quarter of Covid relief funds destined for U.S. cybersecurity defenders, sources told Reuters, angering some lawmakers who don’t want to increase funding for a company whose software was recently at the heart of two big hacks. Congress allocated the funds at issue in the COVID relief bill signed…
FireEye CEO: Reckless Microsoft Hack Unusual for China
March 11, 2021
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RESTON, Va.—Cyber sleuths have already blamed China for a hack that exposed tens of thousands of servers running Microsoft’s Exchange email program to potential hacks. The CEO of a prominent cybersecurity firm says it now seems clear China also unleashed an indiscriminate, automated second wave of hacking that opened the way for ransomware and other…
Chinese Hack on Microsoft Poses Imminent Threat to Australian Security: Expert
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) sounded the alarm on March 3, urging organisations to follow tech giant Microsoft’s instructions to patch vulnerable systems which came under threat by a state-sponsored Chinese cyber attacker. This comes after Microsoft announced on March 2 that a cyber actor based in China, which they called “Hafnium,” hacked its email…
More Than 20,000 US Organizations Compromised Through Microsoft Flaw
WASHINGTON—More than 20,000 U.S. organizations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsoft Corp.’s email software, a person familiar with the U.S. government’s response said on Friday. The hacking has already reached more places than all of the tainted code downloaded from SolarWinds Corp., the company at the heart…
Cybersecurity Group Says Chinese Regime-Linked Hackers Hit Multiple US Targets
March 5, 2021
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Cybersecurity group FireEye said Thursday it found evidence that hackers linked to the Chinese regime exploited a flaw in a Microsoft email application to go after a number of American targets, including a university and local governments. FireEye analysts wrote in a blog post that the company built “higher-fidelity detections” and launched multiple threat hunting…
Microsoft Says Chinese Hackers Targeted Groups via Server Software
March 4, 2021
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WASHINGTON—A China-linked cyber-espionage group has been remotely plundering email inboxes using freshly discovered flaws in Microsoft mail server software, the company and outside researchers said on Tuesday—an example of how commonly used programs can be exploited to cast a wide net online. In a blog post, Microsoft said the hacking campaign made use of four…
Big Tech Employees Donated More To Biden’s Campaign Than Any Other Sector
February 23, 2021
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Employees at Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Alphabet, Google’s parent company, donated at least $15.1 million to President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, according to Open Secrets. The donations eclipsed the amount given from employees in the banking and legal sectors, according to The Wall Street Journal. The five companies were also the largest fundraising sources…
Facebook Reverses News Ban on Australia
February 23, 2021
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Facebook has decided to reverse its sweeping ban on news content in Australia after the tech giant and the federal government agreed to amendments to the impending media payment law. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the Australian government have been engaged in eleventh-hour discussions since the ban came into place last Thursday. By Tuesday Eastern…
Microsoft: SolarWinds Hack ‘Largest and Most Sophisticated Attack’ in History
The hack of SolarWinds technology, which caused a breach of U.S. government systems late last year, is “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen,” according to Microsoft Corp President Brad Smith. The campaign, which was identified in December and, according to federal government agencies, instigated by Russia for “intelligence gathering,” compromised…
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