A Defense Department watchdog said Wednesday the Pentagon did not violate laws or regulations when awarding a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft, though an executive privilege claim prevented it from fully reviewing whether the White House steered the contract away from Amazon due to President Donald Trump’s personal animus against the tech giant.
Read moreMicrosoft sued John Does Controlling Computer Botnets in federal court, claiming they “have illegally created and are using for criminal purposes a global network of interconnected computers knows as the ‘Necurs Botnet,’” infecting more than 9 million computers with malicious software.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon from going forward with a $10 billion contract for a military computing network while Amazon makes its case that President Donald Trump interfered to send the contract to Microsoft to harm Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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The National Security Agency has found a major security flaw in Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system that could let hackers intercept seemingly secure communications.
Read moreA federal class action claims Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Dell, Tesla, et al. knowingly profit from brutal abuse of young children in the Democratic Republic of Congo to mine cobalt for lithium-ion batteries used in their electronic devices.
Read moreThe Pentagon has awarded Microsoft a $10 billion cloud computing contract, snubbing early front-runner Amazon, whose participation drew criticism from President Donald Trump and its business rivals.
Read moreA hacking organization linked to the Iranian government launched attacks on Microsoft email accounts associated with an undisclosed U.S. presidential campaign, the tech giant said Friday.
Read moreA Microsoft subsidiary agreed Monday to pay more than $26 million to resolve claims that its employees bribed Hungarian government officials to tie up software-licensing deals.
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Amazon and Microsoft are battling it out over a $10 billion opportunity to build the U.S. military its first “war cloud” computing system. But Amazon’s early hopes of a shock-and-awe victory may be slipping away.
Read moreMicrosoft announced an ambitious effort it says will make voting secure, verifiable and subject to reliable audits. Two of the three top U.S elections vendors have expressed interest in potentially incorporating the open-source software into their proprietary voting systems.
Read moreMicrosoft pledged $500 million to address homelessness and develop affordable housing in response to the Seattle region’s widening affordability gap.
Read moreMicrosoft said Tuesday it has uncovered new Russian hacking attempts targeting U.S. political groups ahead of the midterm elections.
Read moreMicrosoft and Google are among the tech giants who are urging Georgia Governor Nathan Deal to veto a proposed state law that would make unauthorized computer access a crime punishable by up to a year in prison.
Read moreThe Supreme Court closed the book Tuesday on a search warrant dispute concerning Microsoft customer information that the tech giant maintained on an overseas server.
Read moreThe budget bill before Congress includes an update to federal law that makes clear that authorities with a warrant can obtain emails and other data held by American technology companies but stored on servers overseas.
Read moreWith a pleasant-sounding name and acronym, the CLOUD Act stands for Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data, but human rights groups take a far less sunny view of the bill than the tech giants pushing for its passage through Congress.
Read moreResisting a search warrant for emails stored on Irish servers, Microsoft told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that ruling against it would create diplomatic headaches.
Read moreA federal judge granted Microsoft summary judgment on all but one of Corel’s counterclaims in a patent dispute over the look and feel of “graphical user interfaces in software applications.”
Read moreMicrosoft teamed up with Princeton University and one of its students Friday for a federal complaint over the rollback of a program that offers legal protections to qualifying young immigrants.
Read moreSaying that it spends more than $1.3 million responding to each intrusion by the Barium cybertheft ring, Microsoft has brought a federal complaint to take down the hackers.
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