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Microsoft Warns Other Firms of Russian-Sponsored Group in Email Hacking
Jan 30 2024 // Microsoft Corp. said an account that was compromised by Russia-linked hackers, resulting in a hack of some company emails including senior leaders, didn’t have multifactor authentication enabled. The hackers...
Microsoft’s Bing, Edge to Avoid EU’s Digital Dominance Crackdown
Jan 23 2024 // Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine, Edge web browser and Advertising services are set to be exempt from strict new European Union antitrust rules reining in Big Tech platforms because watchdogs tentatively...
Microsoft Says Russia-Linked Group Hacked Employee Emails
Jan 22 2024 // Microsoft Corp. said a Russian-linked hacking group attacked its corporate systems, getting into a “small number” of email accounts, including those of senior leadership and employees who work in cybersecurity...
Microsoft, OpenAI Hit With New Lawsuit by Authors Over AI Training
Jan 8 2024 // OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft were sued on Friday in Manhattan federal court by a pair of nonfiction authors who say the companies misused their work to train the artificial-intelligence models behind the...
Microsoft, OpenAI Sued by New York Times for Copyright Infringement
Dec 27 2023 // The New York Times Co. sued Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI Inc. for the use of content to help develop artificial intelligence services, in a sign of the increasingly fraught relationship between the media and a technology...
Pulitzer-Winning Authors Join OpenAI, Microsoft Copyright Lawsuit
Dec 21 2023 // A group of 11 nonfiction authors have joined a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court that accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of misusing books the authors have written to train the models behind OpenAI’s popular chatbot...
Microsoft Agrees to Union Contract Terms Governing Its Use of AI
Dec 11 2023 // Microsoft Corp. has agreed to union contract language governing its use of artificial intelligence, creating an avenue for workers to challenge how it deploys the evolving technology. As part of negotiations with the...
Microsoft’s OpenAI Investment Risks Scrutiny From US, UK Regulators
Dec 8 2023 // The US Federal Trade Commission is examining the nature of Microsoft Corp.’s investment in OpenAI Inc. and whether it may violate antitrust laws, according to a person familiar with the matter. The inquiries are...
Microsoft Offers to Help Politicians Crack Down on Deepfakes
Nov 8 2023 // Microsoft Corp. is offering US politicians and campaign groups a tool aimed at helping fight the rise of deepfakes ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The new tool will allow parties to authenticate their videos and...
Microsoft Vows to Revamp Security Products After Repeated Hacks
Nov 7 2023 // Microsoft Corp., battered for its role in several major hacks, said it’s revamping the way it provides cybersecurity protection, using artificial intelligence and other methods to speed the company’s response...
Microsoft CEO Says Tech Giants Battling for Content to Build AI
Oct 3 2023 // Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said Monday tech giants were competing for vast troves of content needed to train artificial intelligence, and complained Google was locking up content with expensive and exclusive...
Microsoft to Defend Customers on AI Copyright Challenges
Sep 8 2023 // Microsoft will pay legal damages on behalf of customers using its artificial intelligence (AI) products if they are sued for copyright infringement for the output generated by such systems, the company said on...
Microsoft Says Compromise of Engineer’s Account Led to Chinese Hack of US Officials
Sep 7 2023 // The recently disclosed Chinese hack of senior officials at the U.S. State and Commerce departments stemmed from the compromise of a Microsoft engineer’s corporate account, Microsoft Corp. said in a blog post on...
Microsoft’s Role in Email Breach to Be Part of Cyber Inquiry
Aug 14 2023 // A US cybersecurity advisory panel will investigate malicious targeting of cloud computing environments, including Microsoft Corp.’s role in a recent breach of government officials’ email accounts by suspected...
Microsoft Says Russia-Linked Hackers Behind Dozens of Teams Phishing Attacks
Aug 4 2023 // A Russian government-linked hacking group took aim at dozens of global organizations with a campaign to steal login credentials by engaging users in Microsoft Teams chats pretending to be from technical support, Microsoft...
Microsoft Hit With EU Antitrust Complaint by German Rival Over Bundling of Teams App
Jul 21 2023 // Microsoft was hit with an EU antitrust complaint by German rival alfaview on Thursday, the second so far over its bundling of video app Teams into its Office product, as the bloc’s regulator prepares to investigate...
Microsoft Says Chinese Hackers Used Code Flaw to Steal Emails From US Agencies
Jul 17 2023 // Microsoft said on Friday that Chinese hackers misappropriated one of its digital keys and used a flaw in the company’s code to steal emails from U.S. government agencies and other clients. The company said in a blog...
Microsoft Under Fire After Hacks of State and Commerce Departments
Jul 14 2023 // In late June, one of cybersecurity expert Steven Adair’s clients got an alert from Microsoft: one of the client’s employees working on human rights issues had their email account compromised. The client wanted...
Chinese Hackers Accessed Government Emails, Microsoft Says
Jul 12 2023 // Chinese state-linked hackers since May have secretly accessed email accounts at around 25 organizations, including U.S. government accounts, in a stealthy cyberespionage campaign, Microsoft and U.S. officials said on...
Microsoft Says Early June Disruptions to Outlook, Cloud Platform Were Cyberattacks
Jun 19 2023 // In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite – including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps – and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist...
