Without Backup Plans, Global IT Outages Will Happen Again July 22, 2024 By James Pearson Elements of Friday’s global IT outage, which grounded planes and hit services from banking to healthcare, have occurred before and...
Microsoft: About 8.5M of Its Devices Affected by CrowdStrike-Related Outage July 22, 2024 A global tech outage that was related to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected nearly 8.5 million Microsoft...
Global IT Crash That Blocked 911 Calls and Grounded Planes Eases July 19, 2024 By Amy Thomson, Shona Ghosh and Vlad Savov In what will go down as the most spectacular IT failure the world has ever seen, a botched software update...
US Lawmakers Grill Microsoft President Over China Ties, Hacks June 17, 2024 By Zeba Siddiqui Microsoft President Brad Smith fielded questions about the tech giant’s security practices and ties to China at a House homeland...
US Regulators to Open Antitrust Inquiries of Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia June 6, 2024 By Jody Godoy The U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have reached a deal that allows them to proceed with antitrust...
Why Near-Miss Cyberattack Put US Officials and Tech Industry on Edge April 8, 2024 By Raphael Satter German software developer Andres Freund was running some detailed performance tests last month when he noticed odd behavior in a...
Microsoft Faulted for ‘Inadequate’ Cyber Practices in US Report April 3, 2024 By Jamie Tarabay A Chinese-state intrusion last year of Microsoft Corp. technology that enabled hackers to gather US officials’ emails “should never have...
Russian Hackers Are Weaponizing Stolen Microsoft Passwords March 13, 2024 By Jamie Tarabay and Katrina Manson A Russian state-sponsored hacking group that stole sensitive data from Microsoft Corp. executives is trying to leverage that information to...
Microsoft Warns Russian Hackers Still Trying to Break Into its Systems March 11, 2024 By Raphael Satter and Zeba Siddiqui Microsoft said on Friday that hackers linked to Russia’s foreign intelligence were trying again to break into its systems, using...
Microsoft Says it Caught Hackers From China, Russia and Iran Using its AI Tools February 15, 2024 By Raphael Satter State-backed hackers from Russia, China, and Iran have been using tools from Microsoft-backed OpenAI to hone their skills and trick...