Chinese Hackers Breach US Govt Email Through Microsoft Cloud

Snippet of Article: ""Officials immediately contacted Microsoft to find the source and vulnerability in their cloud service," he added. "We detected it fairly rapidly... forged digital authentication tokens to access webmail accounts running on the firm's Outlook service, Microsoft said in a statement on its website. The activity began in May. ..."

Source: www.newsmax.com

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Cybersecurity Plan Doesn't Breach Employee Privacy, Administration Says

Article Title: Cybersecurity Plan Doesn't Breach Employee Privacy, Administration Says
Snippet of Article: "...By notifying government employees logging on to their computers that they have "no reasonable expectation of privacy" while using the network, the government's Einstein 2 program is lawful, according to an Aug. 14 Justice Department memo that was released Friday. That applies to a private citizen who, say, sends an e-mail to a government employee -- even to the employee's private account if he or she opens it at work, wrote David J. Barron, acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel. ..."

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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