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Microsoft said Friday it's still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email accounts of senior company executives in November and who it said have been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access data. The hackers from Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service used data obtained in the intrusion, which it disclosed in mid-January, to compromise some source-code repositories and internal systems, the software giant said in a blog and a regulatory filing.Elevate Your Tech Prowess…

Microsoft recently discovered a “China-based threat actor” named Storm-0558 and revealed that the espionage group stole a key which allowed it to break into email inboxes of several US government agencies. The company was criticised for the hack and following the criticism, the tech giant has now announced it will offer a few security logs at no additional cost."Today we are expanding Microsoft’s cloud logging accessibility and flexibility even further. Over the coming months, we will include access to wider cloud…

Microsoft has discovered a new “China-based threat actor” named Storm-0558. In a recent blog post, the software giant revealed that the espionage group has stolen a key. This key allowed attackers to break into email inboxes including ones belonging to several US government agencies. The company said that is currently investigating how the hackers obtained a Microsoft signing key which the hackers abused to forge authentication tokens to access the email accounts. The targets reportedly include US Commerce Secretary Gina…

The personal information of 237,000 current and former federal government employees has been exposed in a data breach at the US Transportation Department (USDOT), sources briefed on the matter said on Friday.The breach hit systems for processing TRANServe transit benefits that reimburse government employees for some commuting costs. It was not clear if any of the personal information had been used for criminal purposes. USDOT notified Congress Friday in an email seen by Reuters that its initial investigation of the data…

FBI Director Christopher Wray The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray has revealed that Chinese hackers outnumber FBI cyber staff 50 to one.The disclosure came as the US and other countries are facing immense cyber threats, particularly from China."To give you a sense of what we're up against, if each one of the FBI's cyber agents and intel analysts focused exclusively on the China threat, Chinese hackers would still outnumber FBI Cyber personnel by at least 50 to 1," Wray said during a…

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray has revealed that Chinese hackers outnumber FBI cyber staff 50 to one.The disclosure came as the US and other countries are facing immense cyber threats, particularly from China."To give you a sense of what we're up against, if each one of the FBI's cyber agents and intel analysts focused exclusively on the China threat, Chinese hackers would still outnumber FBI Cyber personnel by at least 50 to 1," Wray said during a House Appropriations subcommittee…

Illustration: jtstockimage (Shutterstock)In October, Elon Musk purchased Twitter for a cool $44 billion dollars. Among a variety of other assets and headaches, the deal came with one resource that’s gone under-explored: a vast data collection network spanning the sites of more than 70,000 Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, non-profits, universities, and more. Given Twitter’s history of security lapses, how safe is all that data?At least 70,772 websites are using a Twitter advertising tool called a pixel to send…

WASHINGTON—Board members at Udemy Inc., UDMY -0.97% SolarWinds Corp. SWI -1.92% and three other public companies resigned in recent weeks because they simultaneously served as directors of competing companies, the Justice Department said.The moves came after DOJ officials signaled earlier this year that they would enforce a law that bars people from serving on the boards of rival companies, an arrangement that could lead to illicit…

Google has completed the $5.4 billion acquisition of cyber-security firm Mandiant, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian announced.Mandiant will join Google Cloud to help organisations improve their threat, incident and exposure management.Read Also"We will retain the Mandiant brand and continue Mandiant's mission to make every organisation secure from cyber threats and confident in their readiness," Kurian said in a statement.Mandiant is known for unearthing the SolarWinds hack that shook the world.Several big companies,…

Google has completed its acquisition of Mandiant, bringing a major name in cybersecurity under the tech giant’s ever-growing umbrella. The $5.4 billion acquisition, announced in March, was completed on Monday, according to a Google press release. Per details in the release, Mandiant will keep its own brand while operating under the Google Cloud branch of its new parent company. Google Cloud is the cloud computing platform offered by Google and provides cloud computing and data storage infrastructure for other companies…