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By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is expanding its suite of free security tools for customers, the software company said on Wedn...

Microsoft: The blog provided the most fulsome explanation yet for a hack that rattled both the cybersecurity industry and China-U.S. relations. Beijing has denied any involvement in the spying.

By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In late June, one of cybersecurity expert Steven Adair's clients got an alert from Microsoft: one of the clie...

Microsoft: Adair, who used to work in cyberdefense at the U.S. space agency NASA before setting up his own firm, Volexity, immediately launched an investigation - and hit a brick wall.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Microsoft said on Friday that Chinese hackers misappropriated one of its digital keys and used a flaw in the company's code to steal emails from U.S. government agencies and other clients. The company said in a blog post that the hackers were able to use the key - which they acquired under undisclosed circumstances - and take advantage of "a validation error in Microsoft code" to carry out their cyberespionage campaign. Microsoft and U.S. officials said on Wednesday night that Chinese state-linked hackers had been secretly since May accessing email accoun...