Hacker News
- Microsoft helps stop malware, while Apple blows off malware victims http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft-helps-stop-malware-while-Apple-blows-off-malware-victims/1305741363 6 comments
- Thousands of Microsoft Customers May Have Been Victims of Hack Tied to China https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/technology/microsoft-hack-china.html 3 comments
- Windows 8′s next victim: Microsoft kills the Start button http://www.extremetech.com/computing/117241-windows-8s-next-victim-microsoft-kills-the-start-button 85 comments
- Suspect, victim in Redmond stabbing both worked at Microsoft https://komonews.com/news/local/microsoft-redmond-stabbing-stab-knife-blood-court-documents-king-county-prosecutor-attorney-office-jail-2million-joseph-richard-cantrell-arrest-standoff-swat-police-department-one-esterra-building-harborview-medical-center 56 comments
- Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims by Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails http://www.newsweek.com/metoo-microsoft-amazon-trafficking-prostitution-sex-silicon-valley-755611 8 comments
- US senator victim-blames Microsoft for Chinese hack https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/31/infosec_in_brief/ 7 comments privacy
- Microsoft attack blamed on China goes global, with 60,000 victims https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-attack-blamed-on-china-morphs-into-global-crisis/ 140 comments worldnews
- Microsoft attack blamed on China goes global, with 60,000 victims https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-attack-blamed-on-china-morphs-into-global-crisis/ 19 comments technology
- Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge Keep Growing, Firefox Is the Main Victim https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/j60wha/google_chrome_microsoft_edge_keep_growing_firefox/ 13 comments firefox
- Microsoft didn't warn victims of Chinese email hack for "fear of angering the Chinese government" http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-china-insight-iduskbn0ue01z20151231 75 comments technology
- Victim Of Wikipedia: Microsoft To Shut Down Encarta http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-microsoft-pulls-the-plug-on-msn-encarta/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Thousands of Microsoft Customers May Have Been Victims of Hack Tied to China. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/technology/microsoft-hack-china.html 7 comments politics
- Thousands of Microsoft Customers May Have Been Victims of Hack Tied to China https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/technology/microsoft-hack-china.html 3 comments technology
- Thousands of Microsoft Customers May Have Been Victims of Hack Tied to China https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/technology/microsoft-hack-china.html 3 comments worldnews
- White House says Microsoft email hackers have 'large number of victims' https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-microsoft/white-house-says-microsoft-email-hackers-have-large-number-of-victims-iduskbn2ax23u?il=0 7 comments politics
- Microsoft is reportedly added to the growing list of victims in SolarWinds hack https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/12/microsoft-is-reportedly-added-to-the-growing-list-of-victims-in-solarwinds-hack/ 34 comments technology
- Microsoft decided not to warn Tibetan and Uyghur e-mail hack victims because it feared the Chinese Government http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2015/12/microsoft-decided-not-to-warn-tibetan-and-uyghur-e-mail-hack-victims/ 3 comments technology
- Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen a Victim of Identity Theft http://www.winsupersite.com/article/paul-thurrotts-wininfo/microsoft-cofounder-paul-allen-victim-identity-theft-142690 13 comments microsoft
- Windows 8′s next victim: Microsoft kills the Start button http://www.extremetech.com/computing/117241-windows-8s-next-victim-microsoft-kills-the-start-button 1007 comments technology
- WGA: Microsoft's selfless crusade to help piracy victims http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/ 4 comments linux
- Crypto Scammers Posing as Microsoft Cybersecurity Team Bilk Victim Out of $35,000 https://beincrypto.com/crypto-scammers-posing-microsoft-steal/ 19 comments cryptocurrency
- SolarWinds hackers breach new victims, including a Microsoft support agent https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/o8y1lv/solarwinds_hackers_breach_new_victims_including_a/ 39 comments sysadmin
- SolarWinds hackers breach new victims, including a Microsoft support agent https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/solarwinds-hackers-breach-new-victims-including-a-microsoft-support-agent/ 3 comments technology
- Suspected Russian hacking campaign has hit over 40 victims, Microsoft says https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspected-russian-hacking-campaign-hit-over-40-organizations-microsoft-says-n1251645 29 comments worldnews
- Windows support scam: Microsoft says young are far more likely to be victims | ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-support-scam-microsoft-says-young-are-far-more-likely-to-be-victims/ 20 comments windows
- Electron Bot malware is running rampant in the Microsoft Store, opening backdoors on victims' computers https://betanews.com/2022/02/25/electron-bot-malware-is-running-rampant-in-the-microsoft-store-opening-backdoors-on-victims-computers/ 26 comments windows11
- Microsoft discloses “critical” level vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that allows remotely run code or malware on the victim’s device https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/23/21191611/microsoft-zero-day-windows-exploit-remote-code-execution 161 comments privacy
- Microsoft: Half of Tech Support Scam Victims Are Millennials http://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-half-of-tech-support-scam-victims-are-millennials-509416.shtml 4 comments microsoft
- Only Days After Red Hat Legitimised Microsoft’s Patents Against Linux Another Linux-Using Company Falls Victim to Microsoft’s Patent Extortion http://techrights.org/2015/11/10/star-micronics-and-patents/ 39 comments linux
- Microsoft extorts yet another victim, forcing a signed deal with Casio, with looming threats of lawsuits over possible "patents" in Linux. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20108903-17/microsoft-casio-sign-licensing-deal-over-linux 34 comments linux
- Microsoft discontinues Office Genuine Advantage. Buried lede: Microsoft refers to unvalidated users as "victims of fraud" -- lol http://www.informationweek.com/news/smb/hardware_software/showarticle.jhtml?articleid=228801006&subsection=news 4 comments technology
- Every Signature is Broken: On the Insecurity of Microsoft Office’s Signatures. Attackers can arbitrarily manipulate the displayed content of a signed document, and victims are unable to detect the tampering. https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentation/rohlmann 3 comments privacy
- Miscreants fling booby-trapped Office files at victims, no patch yet, says Microsoft https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/07/microsoft_office_zero_day/ 3 comments technology
- Microsoft tech support scammer pleads guilty to defrauding victims of $3 million https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-tech-support-scammer-pleads-guilty-to-defrauding-victims-of-3-million/ 6 comments microsoft
- Don't blame the corporations for the surveillance state -- If the law of the land requires Microsoft or Google or Facebook to surrender data about their customers then that's what they have to do. They're victims of the situation. http://www.zdnet.com/dont-blame-the-corporations-for-the-surveillance-state-7000020678/ 17 comments technology
- Blackhat discovers another internet explorer flaw that does the novelty of making victim's private files public, and microsoft needs to rewrite ie to fix this http://www.taranfx.com/ie-flaw-public-files 110 comments programming
- BBC News - Sick PCs should be banned from the net says Microsoft..... good idea... that would kill automatic worms and cut off keyloggers: protect the internet and the victim. Wait... you want them to have a health certificate?! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11483008 71 comments linux
- Intel's fabled, but never popular, Itanium may be falling victim to the success of the x86-64 architecture: Microsoft announced today that it is ending OS support for the Itanium. http://www.pcworld.com/article/193426/ 57 comments technology
- Chinese Hacking Spree Hit an ‘Astronomical’ Number of Victims - A single group appears to have infiltrated tens of thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers in an ongoing onslaught. https://www.wired.com/story/china-microsoft-exchange-server-hack-victims/ 37 comments worldnews
- The group fell victim to one of the authorities’ newest tactics for quelling dissent: confiscating computers under the pretext of searching for pirated Microsoft software. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/world/europe/12raids.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=microsoft&st=cse 4 comments technology