Renee Dudley, Author at Asia Times https://asiatimes.com/author/renee-dudley/ Covering geo-political news and current affairs across Asia Wed, 19 Jun 2024 04:02:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://asiatimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/ATLogo-192px.png Renee Dudley, Author at Asia Times https://asiatimes.com/author/renee-dudley/ 32 32 173017365 Whistleblower says Microsoft left US govt hackable https://asiatimes.com/2024/06/whistleblower-says-microsoft-left-us-govt-hackable/ https://asiatimes.com/2024/06/whistleblower-says-microsoft-left-us-govt-hackable/#respond Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:59:21 +0000 https://asiatimes.com/?p=765181

by Renee Dudley, with research by Doris Burke This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Microsoft hired Andrew Harris for his extraordinary skill in keeping hackers out of the nation’s most sensitive computer networks. In 2016, Harris was hard at work on a mystifying incident in which intruders had somehow […]

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This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. On February 25, the day after Russia invaded Ukraine, a prolific ransomware gang called Conti made a proclamation on its dark website. It was an unusually political statement for a cybercrime organization: Conti pledged its “full support of Russian government” and said it […]

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