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The Microsoft logo is seen in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris, France, April 12, 2016. In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday, April 2, 2024, saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

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Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack
By FRANK BAJAK - AP Technology Writer
Tue,04/02/24-9:00PM , 68 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday saying “a cascade of errors” by the te
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The Microsoft logo is shown at the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, on March 2, 2023. Microsoft said Friday, March 8, 2024 it's still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email accounts of senior company executives in November and who it said have been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access data. . (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra, File)

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Microsoft says it hasn't been able to shake Russian state hackers
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Fri,03/08/24-6:40PM , 81 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — Microsoft said Friday it's still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email accounts of senior company executives in November and who it said have been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access data.
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Microsoft says US rivals are beginning to use generative AI in offensive cyber operations
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Wed,02/14/24-6:01AM , 190 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — Microsoft said Wednesday that U.S. adversaries — chiefly Iran and North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia and China — are beginning to use its generative artificial intelligence to mount or organize offensive cyber operations.
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A logo adorns a wall on a branch of the Israeli NSO Group company, near the southern Israeli town of Sapir, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. A new report says Israeli-made Pegasus spyware was used in Jordan to hack the cellphones of nearly three dozen people including journalists, lawyers and human rights activists. The digital rights group Access Now said the hacking with spyware made by the NSO Group occurred from early 2020 until November. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

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Journalists, lawyers and activists hacked with Pegasus spyware in Jordan, forensic probe finds
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Thu,02/01/24-3:26AM , 96 Reads
Israeli-made Pegasus spyware was used in Jordan to hack the cellphones of at least 30 people, including journalists, lawyers, human rights and political activists, the digital rights group Access Now said Thursday.
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