SAN FRANCISCO Microsoft Corp's failure to fix known problems with its cloud software facilitated the massive SolarWinds hack that compromised at least nine federal government agencies, according to security experts and the office of U.S. Senator Ron Wyden.
WASHINGTON Top executives at Texas-based software company SolarWinds Corp, Microsoft Corp and cybersecurity firms FireEye Inc and CrowdStrike Holdings Inc defended their conduct in breaches blamed on Russian hackers and sought to shift responsibility elsewhere in testimony to a U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday. | Video
SAN FRANCISCO The hackers behind the worst intrusion of U.S. government agencies in years won access to Microsoft's secret source code for authenticating customers, potentially aiding one of their main attack methods.
By Christopher Bing, Jack Stubbs, Raphael Satter and Joseph Menn | Video
By Christopher Bing, Jack Stubbs, Raphael Satter and Joseph Menn
By Christopher Bing, Jack Stubbs, Raphael Satter and Joseph Menn
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO President Joe Biden is hiring a group of national security veterans with deep cyber expertise, drawing praise from former defense officials and investigators as the U.S. government works to recover from one of the biggest hacks of its agencies attributed to Russian spies.
By Joseph Menn, Elizabeth Culliford, Katie Paul and Carrie Monahan
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions to punish Russia for what it described as Moscow's attempt to poison opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent last year, in President Joe Biden's most direct challenge yet to the Kremlin.