Tag: Brad Smith
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Microsoftâs Brad Smith defends company over 2023 account hacks
Microsoft president Brad Smith stood up for his company over its handling of an attack by a Chinese threat actor in 2023. Speaking to the …
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Microsoft’s Brad Smith summoned by Homeland Security committee over ‘cascade’ of infosec failures
The US government wants to make Microsoft’s vice chair and president, Brad Smith, the latest tech figurehead to field questions from a …
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Microsoft finds SolarWinds hackers downloaded code but didnât mount attacks
Microsoft Corp.âs Security Response Center today concluded its internal investigation into the SolarWinds Worldwide LLC breach, finding …
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Microsoftâs Brad Smith labels SolarWinds hack âlargest and most sophisticated attack everâ
Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith (pictured) has labeled the now-infamous hack of SolarWinds Worldwide LLCâs Orion software as the …
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Microsoft Caught Up in SolarWinds Spy Effort, Joining Federal Agencies
Microsoft has become the latest victim of the ever-widening SolarWinds-driven cyberattack that has impacted rafts of federal agencies and …
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Windstream Enterprise promotes Brad Smith to head of Strategic Channels
Windstream Enterprise (WE) announced organizational changes to its channel partner program. Brad Smith, currently vice president â …
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Divesting from one facial recognition startup, Microsoft ends outside investments in the tech
Microsoft is pulling out of an investment in an Israeli facial recognition technology developer as part of a broader policy shift to halt …
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Microsoft taps Eric Holder to audit Israeli partner in demonstration of techâs struggle to self-regulate
Microsoftâs headquarters in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Microsoftâs decision to retain former …
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A former Microsoft security expert reviews Brad Smithâs âTools and Weaponsâ book
Brad Smith makes one hell of a convincing argument. How else can you explain the following from Bill Gatesâ foreword to his book, âTools & Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age,â referring to Microsoftâs antitrust case in the late 1990s? …
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Microsoft wonât share facial recognition technology with police, citing human rights concerns
While China doubles down on its efforts to track its citizens and concerns fester in the U.S. that a similar Orwellian super-surveillance …
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Microsoft âjust says noâ to sharing facial recognition technology with police, citing human rights concerns
While China doubles down on its efforts to track its citizens and concerns fester in the U.S. that a similar Orwellian super-surveillance …
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Bipartisan bill proposes oversight for commercial facial recognition
On Thursday, Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz and Missouri Senator Roy Blunt introduced a bill designed to offer legislative oversight for …
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