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Microsoft details ‘largest cybersecurity engineering effort in history’ — securing its own code

Microsoft gave new details about its security initiatives on Monday morning, less than five months after CEO Satya Nadella and… Read More

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Podcast: New Starbucks CEO’s supercommute, SeaTac cyberattack, more on AI music

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we revisit the controversy over Starbucks’ hybrid work policy for its new CEO, Brian… Read More

Internal memo: Microsoft makes security a ‘core priority’ for employee review process

Microsoft will elevate security to the status of “core priority” for all employees as part of the process of focusing… Read More

UW lands $50M from National Science Foundation to lead new center for research security

Backed by $50 million from the National Science Foundation, the University of Washington will lead a national consortium of research… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at Build 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)

Internal memo: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers a new mandate on security

This is the text of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s internal memo sent to employees Friday, May 3, about the company’s… Read More

Haunted by breaches, Microsoft is ‘putting security above all else,’ vows CEO Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella has made a habit of touting the revenue growth in the company’s security technology business on Microsoft’s earnings… Read More

Expedia Group to close Seattle HQ temporarily to enhance security after discovery of spy cameras

Expedia Group will close its Seattle headquarters for three days starting this weekend to further enhance its security and improve… Read More

Microsoft and OpenAI say they’re watching and thwarting AI use by Russian and Chinese hackers

State-affiliated online attackers are finding ChatGPT and other AI tools useful for improving their productivity, and streamlining and accelerating their… Read More

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Open Confidential Computing Conference (OC3)

OC3 is the conference for the open-source confidential computing community. Join core committers and contributors, new and advanced users, as… Read More

Seattle startup Dropzone AI, which develops autonomous AI security agents, raises $3.5M

Dropzone AI announced a $3.5 million seed round led by Decibel Partners, with participation from Pioneer Square Ventures Fund. Dropzone’s… Read More

Chinese hacking group exploited multiple Microsoft flaws to access U.S. government email accounts

Microsoft is providing new details about the techniques used by a Chinese hacking group to infiltrate the email accounts of… Read More

Microsoft faces new scrutiny after Chinese hackers infiltrate U.S. government via Exchange Online

A U.S. government agency reportedly detected initial signs of an intrusion by a Chinese hacking group using a premium feature… Read More

Washington state AG says T-Mobile is wrongly withholding documents in security probe

Updated below with T-Mobile statement. A new court petition alleges that T-Mobile is refusing to fully comply with investigative demands… Read More

Microsoft’s ‘Verified ID’ will confirm that LinkedIn members actually work where they say they do

Microsoft is expanding its digital identity technology to LinkedIn with a new tool that lets companies give their employees a… Read More

New ‘Security Copilot’ is Microsoft’s latest integration of OpenAI’s GPT-4

Microsoft previewed new technology that uses artificial intelligence to defend against hackers by identifying, analyzing, and understanding the inner workings… Read More

Microsoft job cuts surpass 2,700 in Seattle region; security technology group hit in latest round

Microsoft made another 559 job cuts in the Seattle region on Monday, according to a filing with the state Employment… Read More

DARPA boosts Microsoft’s far-out effort to build topological quantum computer

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is laying down a bet on Microsoft’s long-running effort to create an industrial-scale… Read More

Microsoft cybersecurity chief Charlie Bell lays out strategies to fight ‘growing’ threat

Microsoft’s point man on cybersecurity, Charlie Bell, acknowledges that the threat posed by “bad actors” online — including nation states… Read More

With Google’s Mandiant deal pending, Microsoft looks to get ahead in security threat intelligence

Microsoft announced two new security threat intelligence products Tuesday morning, the latest moves in a broader effort to help businesses… Read More

Microsoft ‘Entra’ launch renews push for decentralized ID and cross-cloud permissions

Microsoft is rebranding its identity and access products under the name “Entra,” and rolling out a decentralized system to verify… Read More

Securing the metaverse: Microsoft exec Charlie Bell calls on industry to learn lessons of the early web

Charlie Bell has the metaverse on his mind. That alone is a notable takeaway from a post this morning by… Read More

Amazon’s Ring unveils $40 device that detects breaking glass, duplicating Echo feature

Ring, the Amazon-owned smart doorbell and home security tech company, announced a new sensor that promises to detect the sound… Read More

Microsoft: Hackers in China, Iran and elsewhere start exploiting widespread Apache Log4j flaws

Microsoft says groups connected to governments in China, Iran, North Korea and Turkey have begun exploiting vulnerabilities in the Apache… Read More

‘Unprecedented’ Microsoft Azure database vulnerability impacts thousands of customers, researchers warn

A series of flaws in Microsoft Azure’s Cosmos DB exposed the accounts and databases of thousands of the company’s corporate… Read More

Microsoft earnings preview: Cloud growth promises to deliver another big quarter for tech giant

Is Microsoft’s cloud growth a temporary blip, driven by the fleeting circumstances of the pandemic, or an enduring trend reflecting… Read More

U.S. blames China for Microsoft exploit, lists University of Washington among separate hack targets

The United States and its allies took the extraordinary step of attributing cyberattacks that exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Exchange Server… Read More

Microsoft acquires ReFirm Labs in latest effort to identify Internet of Things security gaps

Microsoft has acquired ReFirm Labs of Fulton, Md., the company behind the Binwalk open-source software that identifies hidden security vulnerabilities… Read More

Microsoft’s response to Exchange Server hacks scrutinized as scope of attack grows

Microsoft was made aware of initial attacks exploiting previously unknown vulnerabilities in Exchange Server in early January, two months before… Read More

Analysis: Washington state’s response to data breach affecting 1.4M people is stunningly callous

Not our fault. And good luck, you’re on your own. These are essentially two main messages from Washington state government… Read More

Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers viewed source code, but its defenses thwarted further access

An illicit account associated with the widespread SolarWinds hack was used to view some of Microsoft’s internal source code, the… Read More