Microsoft president Brad Smith said the software giant’s analysis of the SolarWinds hack suggests the code behind the crack was the work of a thousand or more developers.
Speaking on US news magazine program 60 Minutes, Smith labelled the attack “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen.”
Stop me if you've heard this before. You text a friend to finalize plans, anxiously awaiting their reply, only to get a message from them on Snapchat to say your latest story was hilarious. So, you move the conversation over to Snapchat, decide to meet up at 10:30, but then you close the app and can't remember if you agreed on meeting at Hannegan's or that poppin' new brewery downtown. You can't go back and look at the message since Snapchat messages have a short shelf life, so you send a text, but your friend has already proven to be an unreliable texter.
On Friday, I wrote a story about how Facebook was prompting users for their password when they navigate to Facebook’s Update Your Security Information webpage. Users said they were confused why it was happening, and frankly so was I. The prompt was ironic to me because most users get to the webpage from a Facebook ad (Sponsored Story) called “Account Protection” pushed out by Facebook itself to help them improve their account security.
