Google accused Microsoft of unfairly attacking it to distract from the massive Exchange hack Mar 13, 2021, 10:53 AM
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Google accused Microsoft of diverting attention away from the hack on Exchange servers.
Microsoft president Brad Smith took aim at Google ahead of a US House hearing on antitrust.
A claimed Chinese-sponsored hacking group attacked Microsoft Exchange servers in 30,000 US organisations.
Google accused Microsoft of attempting to divert public attention away from a major Microsoft server hack.
Kent Walker, Google s head of global affairs, said in a blog post Microsoft is attacking his firm to divert attention away from the massive hack on Microsoft Exchange servers. The statement came ahead of a US House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on competition among news outlets at which Microsoft testified.
Google on Friday slammed Microsoft in a blog post, accusing the rival company of backing proposals for tech giants to pay news publishers for content for self-serving purposes.
Microsoft president Brad Smith took aim at Google ahead of an House hearing on antitrust.
A Chinese-sponsored hacking group attacked Microsoft Exchange servers in 30,000 US organizations.
Google accused Microsoft of attempting to divert public attention away from a major Microsoft server hack.
Kent Walker, Google s head of global affairs, said in a blog post Microsoft is attacking his firm to divert attention away from the massive hack on Microsoft Exchange servers. The statement came ahead of a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on competition among news outlets at which Microsoft testified.
Microsoft president Brad Smith said in a testimony ahead of a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing that Google dominates digital advertising and requires news outlets use the tech firm s tools to operate.
(Halil Sagirkaya / Anadolu Agency)
Hackers aren’t the only ones taking advantage of the recent flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server Google is, too.
On Friday, Google bashed Microsoft over the vulnerabilities in a blog post that s ostensibly about funding journalism. “Microsoft was warned about the vulnerabilities in their system, knew they were being exploited, and are now doing damage control while their customers scramble to pick up the pieces from what has been dubbed the Great Email Robbery,” wrote Kent Walker, Google’s senior vice president of global affairs.
Apparently, Walker took offense to Microsoft’s recent attempts to portray Google as an internet giant sucking funding away from media outlets. Last month, Microsoft President Brad Smith said it’s time the US require both Google and Facebook to pay media outlets to link to their news articles, citing the threat of misinformation overtaking fact-based reporting.