A little-known Microsoft program allowed China-based engineers to service the U.S. government’s sensitive computer systems — until reporter Renee Dudley found out about it.
Microsoft “Digital Escorts” Could Expose Defense Dept. Data to Chinese Hackers — ProPublica
The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack expertise to identify malicious code.
The hacker crackdown: law and disorder on the electronic frontier
A journalist investigates the past, present, and future…
Big Tech Pulled the Plug. They Downloaded Their Lovers.
How Chinese users created AI lovers, friends and family — and struggled to let them go
Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers | TechCrunch
Microsoft shut down dozens of GitHub code repositories for Azure and AI coding tools after a reported hack.
Trump Signs Bill Banning Use of China-Based Engineers on Pentagon Computers — ProPublica
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.
Microsoft Teams Has Become a Haven for Scammers in China
Fraudsters are exploiting enterprise chat apps like Teams and Webex to trick Chinese victims into transferring large sums of money, fueling a wave of complaints.
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
Hugging Face just released this extremely detailed technical description of OpenAI's recent accidental cyberattack against their infrastructure. This attack was very sophisticated, and the resulting document doubles as a crash-course …
Facing mounting backlash, Anandasangaree says U.S. tech companies are 'misinterpreting' his lawful access bill | CBC News
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree accused U.S. tech giants of "misinterpreting" his lawful access bill, which promises to give police and spies faster access to Canadians' information during investigations, as the proposed legislation faces growing backlash south of the border.
Defense at AI speed: Microsoft’s new multi-model agentic security system tops leading industry benchmark | Microsoft Security Blog
Today Microsoft is announcing a major step forward in AI-powered cyber defense: a new multi-model agentic scanning harness (codenamed MDASH).
The Internet Coup: A Technical Analysis on How a Chinese Company is Exporting The Great Firewall to Autocratic Regimes | InterSecLab
This research reveals groundbreaking findings on how Geedge Networks is selling an extensive suite of next-generation digital repression tools to client governments around the world.
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
A mere fifteen years ago, computer nerds were seen as m…
Update on ongoing Microsoft review - Microsoft On the Issues
Brad Smith, Vice Chair & President, shared the below communication with Microsoft employees this morning. I want to let you know that Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD). I know many of you care about this topic, and I share more about...
Introducing MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH | Microsoft AI
Today we’re announcing MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside of MDASH, our multi-agent vulnerability identification and remediation harness. Together they deliver world-class performance at 50% of the cost of leading models.
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras (@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social)
It's great that a class of tool that by its very design is an unfixable security issue is forced into everything: «This works often enough that Måløy reported this to Microsoft as a security hole in March. He gave them a 90-day reporting window, Microsoft extended that twice to a total of 144 days, and they still didn’t have a solid fix. So Måløy posted about the hole on July 28th.» Copilot prompt injection goes viral in your documents https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/03/copilot-prompt-injection-goes-viral-in-your-documents/
Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians
Microsoft developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians.
