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In a scathing letter sent to key federal agencies, Senator Ron Wyden called for multiple investigations of Microsoft Corp. over a breach of US officials' email accounts by China-linked hackers. Wyden's letter — sent to heads of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of Justice, and Federal Trade Commission — said that Microsoft “bears significant responsibility for this new incident.” The senator also chided the company for its role in the SolarWinds attack, disclosed in 2020, when Russian…

The Chinese spy balloon captured images and video surveillance using American technology, U.S. officials reported on Thursday. The balloon, which was shot down off the coast of South Carolina earlier this year, likely didn’t transmit the information back to the Chinese government based on a preliminary investigation, although the investigation is still ongoing.Are Big Consumer Facing Tech Companies Redeemable? In February, the Chinese government denied the balloon was intended for surveillance, claiming instead that it…

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Companies identified the country’s sluggish economy and U.S.-China trade tensions among the top challenges. Companies identified the country’s sluggish economy and U.S.-China trade tensions among the top challenges. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If…

An undated ID photo of journalist Evan Gershkovich. - A US reporter for The Wall Street Journal newspaper has been detained in Russia for espionage, Russian news agencies reported Thursday, citing the FSB security services.- | Afp | Getty ImagesRussian authorities plan to detain an American journalist who works for The Wall Street Journal for two months.The reporter, Evan Gershkovich, was detained on suspicion of espionage, according to Russia's Federal Security Service. Shortly after, a Moscow court ordered Gershkovich's…

Photo: Shag 7799 (Shutterstock)Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a warning to the Western World on Tuesday when he declared he will no longer participate in the New SMART nuclear treaty with the U.S. The withdrawal marks the last of the country’s nuclear arms control pact almost a year after it invaded Ukraine. Putin has repeatedly admonished the West for its support of Ukraine and said in his State of the Union address that the U.S. and NATO have openly declared their support of Ukraine and have opposed Russia’s…

Photo: Broadcast Media (Shutterstock)It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a helium-fueled nightmare here to steal all our national security secrets!Yes, the Chinese balloon scandal has eaten up a lot of bandwidth over the last few weeks. Other, arguably more important stories (like the Norfolk Southern mushroom cloud) haven’t gotten nearly as much media attention as the floating white blob that the government decided to shoot down earlier this month. News of the balloon’s intrusion into U.S. airspace sidelined what promised…

Goodbye, big floating spy in the sky.Photo: Larry Mayer / The Billings Gazette (AP)As of Saturday, the giant white balloon that U.S. authorities claimed was sent over by China to spy on the country is no more. Amid growing calls to shoot down the alleged spy balloon, the U.S. military did just that and used Air Force fighter jets to dispose of it while it traveled 60,000 feet (18,288 meters) off the Carolina coastline, the Associated Press reported. Videos of the take down posted on social media show two fighter jets…

Photo: AP/Getty/Gizmodo (Getty Images)Late Thursday night, a giant, mysterious balloon floated over the United States, apparently by way of the Pacific Ocean all the way to sensitive air space in Montana.On Friday, the Chinese government said the floating thing was not a spy balloon—honestly, fair, because the Pentagon said such an aircraft would have little intelligence gathering value—but rather a “civilian airship” meant for meteorological research that had gone way, way, way, incredibly off course.“The Chinese side…

Photo: Andrey Pugachev (Shutterstock)Defense officials claim that a Chinese surveillance balloon has been drifting over the northern part of the United States for the past several days. The balloon is thought to have traveled over a number of different states where sensitive defense installations (read: nuclear silos) are located. On Thursday, local news outlets in Montana reported that the Pentagon had confirmed that “a high altitude surveillance balloon” is “over the continental United States right now.” Pentagon…