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Microsoft Security Vulnerabilities Set Record High in 2024: BeyondTrust
Apr 21 2025 // Microsoft reported a record-breaking 1,360 vulnerabilities in its products last year, an all-time high and an 11% increase over the previous record of 1,292 in 2022, according to new report from cybersecurity firm...
Microsoft Pulls Back on Data Centers From Chicago to Jakarta
Apr 4 2025 // Microsoft Corp. has pulled back on data center projects around the world, suggesting the company is taking a harder look at its plans to build the server farms powering artificial intelligence and the cloud. The software...
Microsoft’s LinkedIn Sued for Disclosing Customer Information to Train AI Models
Jan 22 2025 // Microsoft’s LinkedIn has been sued by Premium customers who said the business-focused social media platform disclosed their private messages to third parties without permission to train generative artificial...
Microsoft Faces Wide-Ranging Antitrust Probe
Dec 2 2024 // The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft, including of its software licensing and cloud computing businesses, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The...
Iranian Hacker Group Focuses on US Election Websites, Media, Microsoft says
Oct 24 2024 // An Iranian hacking group is actively scouting U.S. election-related websites and American media outlets as election day nears, according to a Microsoft blog published on Wednesday. Researchers say the activity suggests...
Microsoft, Cyber Firms Pursue Changes After CrowdStrike Outage
Sep 13 2024 // Microsoft Corp. said it’s building an alternative for cybersecurity companies that now utilize the deepest layer of its operating system after a flawed update from CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. triggered a global IT...
Microsoft, Cyber Firms to Meet on Fixes After CrowdStrike Crash
Aug 26 2024 // Microsoft Corp. is planning a meeting next month with cybersecurity companies that operate at the core of its Windows systems to discuss ways in which they can keep last month’s worldwide computer crash from...
Microsoft and Delta Trade Blame Over Crowdstrike Outage
Aug 7 2024 // Microsoft Corp. said Delta Air Lines Inc. turned down repeated offers for assistance following last month’s catastrophic system outage, echoing claims by CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. in an increasingly contentious...
Microsoft Azure Attack Shows Persistence of Blunt Hacking Tool
Aug 2 2024 // The recent outage on Microsoft Corp.’s cloud-computer platform demonstrated the persistence of an older, blunt-force style of cyberattack. It’s called a distributed denial-of-service attack, DDoS for short, and...
Microsoft Reports Outage of Some Office and Cloud Services
Jul 30 2024 // Updated: July 30, 3 p.m. EDT Microsoft Corp. said it has started to resolve an outage affecting its Azure cloud service. The issue resulted from an unexpected usage surge, according to a status page with live updates on...
Microsoft: About 8.5M of Its Devices Affected by CrowdStrike-Related Outage
Jul 22 2024 // A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft devices, Microsoft said in a blog post on Saturday. “We currently estimate that...
Microsoft Tells Texas Agencies They Were Exposed in Russian Hack
Jul 1 2024 // Microsoft Corp. has told more than a dozen state agencies and public universities in Texas that Russian state-sponsored hackers accessed emails between them and the software giant. The attackers were able to gain access to...
US Lawmakers Grill Microsoft President Over China Ties, Hacks
Jun 17 2024 // Microsoft President Brad Smith fielded questions about the tech giant’s security practices and ties to China at a House homeland security panel on Thursday, a year after alleged China-linked hackers spied on federal...
US Regulators to Open Antitrust Inquiries of Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia
Jun 6 2024 // The U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have reached a deal that allows them to proceed with antitrust investigations into the dominant roles that Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia play in the artificial...
CISA Says Russian Hackers Used Microsoft Access to Steal Government Emails
Apr 12 2024 // The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Russian government-backed hackers have used their access to Microsoft’s email system to steal correspondence between officials and the tech giant, an...
Microsoft Faulted for ‘Inadequate’ Cyber Practices in US Report
Apr 3 2024 // A Chinese-state intrusion last year of Microsoft Corp. technology that enabled hackers to gather US officials’ emails “should never have occurred,” according to a report released Tuesday from a government...
Apple Antitrust Suit Mirrors Strategy That Beat Microsoft, but Tech Industry Has Changed
Mar 22 2024 // The U.S. government’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple draws on the watershed 1998 case that broke Microsoft’s stranglehold on desktop software, but that may prove to be an imperfect blueprint for addressing...
Russian Hackers Are Weaponizing Stolen Microsoft Passwords
Mar 13 2024 // A Russian state-sponsored hacking group that stole sensitive data from Microsoft Corp. executives is trying to leverage that information to compromise the company’s source code and other internal systems, according...
Microsoft Warns Russian Hackers Still Trying to Break Into its Systems
Mar 11 2024 // Microsoft said on Friday that hackers linked to Russia’s foreign intelligence were trying again to break into its systems, using data stolen from corporate emails in January to gain new access to the tech giant whose...
Microsoft Says it Caught Hackers From China, Russia and Iran Using its AI Tools
Feb 15 2024 // State-backed hackers from Russia, China, and Iran have been using tools from Microsoft-backed OpenAI to hone their skills and trick their targets, according to a report published on Wednesday. Microsoft said in its report...
