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#Microsoft President Grilled by #Congress Over #Cybersecurity Failures
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The criticism from members of the House Homeland Security Committee came in response to a ProPublica investigation that found Microsoft repeatedly rebuffed an engineer’s warnings that a product flaw had left millions of users vulnerable to attack.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-cybersecurity-house-homeland-security-hearing

Microsoft President Grilled by Congress Over Cybersecurity Failures

The criticism from members of the House Homeland Security Committee came in response to a ProPublica investigation that found Microsoft repeatedly rebuffed an engineer’s warnings that a product flaw had left millions of users vulnerable to attack.

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Read that earlier investigation here:
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers
Whistleblower Says Microsoft Dismissed Warnings About a Security Flaw That Russians Later Used to Hack U.S. Government

Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business. Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National Nuclear Security Administration, among others.

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@ProPublica Corporations respond to the word "profits!" the same way that dogs in the movie "Up" respond to "squirrel!"

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