All the headlines from our Microsoft Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Jul 30 2024 // Updated: July 30, 3 p.m. EDTMicrosoft 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 the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...