by Pradeep
7 months
In August, we reported that Microsoft has filed a bid protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding a $10 billion cloud computing contract awarded to Amazon’s AWS by NSA (National Security Agency). GAO h...
by Surur
5 years
Hacking group the Shadow Brokers was the key link in last week’s WannaCrypt chaos, having released the NSA’s hacking tools which allowed the malware to be weaponized so well. Now the shadowy group has announced that th...
by Surur
5 years
Hacking group the Shadow Brokers yesterday dumped a new collection of Windows hacks used by the NSA to target PCs which were believed to contain a number of Zero-day exploits. Microsoft has today published a response to the new le...
by Surur
5 years
Hacking group the Shadow Brokers has today dumped a new collection of Windows hacks used by the NSA to target computers on the web. The collection is believed to contain a number of Zero-day exploits with the LawFare security...
by Sean Chan
6 years
Yesterday, a report from Reuters claimed that Yahoo! secretly scanned millions of its users’ emails after receiving a request from the NSA. This, once again, raised some major concerns throughout the tech industry...
8 years
Microsoft is staying committed to a promise made by their chief counsel Brad Smith a few months ago. Smith said the company would fight legal demands from U.S. authorities to turn over data stored in Microsoft computing ...
8 years
Earlier this week, Brad Smith, General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs at Microsoft blogged about need for the U.S. Government to address important privacy issues and others it has create...
8 years
Microsoft ended support for Windows XP, a decade old OS back in April. Since lots of Chinese Government computers still use Windows XP, they are exposed to security attacks. Last month, Chinese government made a strange move by an...
by Pradeep
8 years
Guardian last year reported that Microsoft handed the NSA access to unencrypted Skype and Outlook.com messages. It said that Microsoft collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users communications to be intercep...
8 years
NSA, USA’s Surveillance Agency is now helping UK’s Surveillance Agency GCHQ in intercepting and storing the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, revealed secret d...
by Pradeep
8 years
Bill Gates, former chairman of Microsoft did a AmA on Reddit. He spoke about his new role at Microsoft, role of NSA and more. I had a lot of fun doing last year’s AMA and am excited to come back for another round of questio...
by Pradeep
8 years
Microsoft today published its report on the governmental requests on customer data it received for a period of 6 months. Previously, Microsoft and other companies were banned from disclosing such data to the public. After the lead...
