Microsoft’s latest public shaming comes courtesy of an unlikely source: Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, one of the few Dems who actually is paying attention to the current cyber mess. Wyden is demanding that the FTC launch an investigation into what he bluntly calls “gross cybersecurity negligence.” That phrase isn’t hyperbole. It’s an indictment of a company whose software decisions keep leaving the barn door open while American hospitals, schools, and government agencies get ransacked by cybercriminals.
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The spark for Wyden’s fury is the breach at Ascension Health, where nearly 6 million patient records were compromised thanks to Microsoft’s insecure defaults. A contractor clicked a poisoned Bing link, and suddenly the attackers had a path into the heart of the network.
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