Renee Dudley

Pentagon Bans Tech Vendors From Using China-Based Personnel After ProPublica Investigation The Defense Department has tightened cybersecurity requirements for its cloud services providers. The changes come after ProPublica revealed how Microsoft’s use of China-based engineers left sensitive...

NEW: The Defense Department has tightened cybersecurity requirements for its cloud services providers. The changes come after ProPublica revealed how Microsoft’s use of China-based engineers left sensitive government data vulnerable to hacking.

By @reneedudley.bsky.social

Microsoft Failed to Disclose Key Details About Use of China-Based Engineers in U.S. Defense Work, Record Shows The tech giant is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking. Yet a copy of Microsoft’s security plan obtained by ProPublica makes no refe...

BREAKING: Microsoft failed to disclose key details about its use of China-based engineers in Defense Department IT work, according to security document obtained by @propublica.org: www.propublica.org/article/micr...

Microsoft Failed to Disclose Key Details About Use of China-Based Engineers in U.S. Defense Work, Record Shows The tech giant is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking. Yet a copy of Microsoft’s security plan obtained by ProPublica makes no refe...

www.propublica.org/article/micr...

Microsoft Used China-Based Support for Multiple U.S. Agencies, Potentially Exposing Sensitive Data Microsoft says it will no longer use China-based engineers to support the Pentagon. But ProPublica found that the tech giant has relied on its global workforce for years to support other federal…

In addition to its work for the Pentagon, Microsoft has used overseas employees, including China-based personnel, to support the cloud systems of federal departments such as parts of the DOJ, Treasury and Commerce, ProPublica has learned.

By @reneedudley.bsky.social, w/ research by Doris Burke

A few thoughts on this excellent article by Renee Dudley, in which I’m quoted: | John B. Sherman A few thoughts on this excellent article by Renee Dudley, in which I’m quoted: 1. To say I was floored by these revelations would be an understatement. I was too measured in my comments, and I’ll cla...

Very thoughtful response to great @propublica.org reporting by @reneedudley.bsky.social and Doris Burke: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Our investigation revealed how a little-known Microsoft program could leave some of the U.S. government’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary.

TL;DR, these are the 9 biggest takeaways ⤵️

A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers 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 expe...

www.propublica.org/article/micr...

Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same? The tech billionaire and Trump adviser “donated” Starlink service to the White House. The move resembles a previous maneuver by Microsoft, which used “free” trials to lock in costly upgrades across…

Musk’s offer of free Starlink for the White House puzzled some former officials.

But it immediately struck ProPublica reporters as the potential Trump-era iteration of a tried-and-true business maneuver they’d spent months reporting on last year.

By @reneedudley.bsky.social