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Microsoft Sues Chinese Company for Hacking Xbox Accounts
Submitted by l33tdawg on Sun, 2017-05-28 23:11
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against a Chinese company that operates an online service that sells virtual gaming currencies, accusing the company of hacking into Xbox accounts and illegally purchasing game coins via the account owners' credit card.
According to court documents obtained by Bleeping Computer, Microsoft discovered the scheme last December, when its employees stumbled upon the iGSKY website, where visitors could purchase gaming currency for various console games, some of which were exclusive to the Xbox platform.
Microsoft says stockpiling of hacking tools by governments partly to blame for recent attack
Submitted by l33tdawg on Sun, 2017-05-14 23:31
Microsoft’s President and Chief Legal Officer has come out today blaming governments’ stockpiling of hacking tools as part of the reason for the recent hack that affected the NHS. WannaCrypt, the ransomware that has hit hundreds of thousands of systems in recent days was crafted based on an exploit developed by the National Security Agency (NSA).
Microsoft President, Brad Smith, said:
Microsoft’s silence over unprecedented patch delay doesn’t smell right
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2017-03-17 04:11
Last month, Microsoft took the unprecedented step of canceling Patch Tuesday, the company's monthly release of security fixes for its large stable of software products. The move meant that customers had to wait 28 days to receive updates that fixed vulnerabilities that allowed hackers to completely hijack computers and networks.
Microsoft’s Teams is almost an excellent Slack-killer, and it’s now live for O365
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2017-03-15 07:44
After being in beta since November, Microsoft Teams is now available to anyone with a suitable Office 365 subscription.
Google – Once Again – Publicly Discloses Windows Bug After Microsoft Fails to Patch It
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2017-02-20 22:28
Google is once again dropping the same bomb on Microsoft – disclosing a vulnerability publicly after the company failed to patch it in time.
The Redmond software giant was expected to a send a security update on Patch Tuesday last week. However, it failed to do so and said that the updates will now be released “as part of the planned March Update Tuesday,” on March 14, 2017 – a whole month after they were supposed to go live.
