Microsoft said it will begin to warn users of its e-mail service Outlook , when you suspect that a government has attempted to illegally access their accounts.
The technology giant reported the measure through a statement, nine days after Reuters asked the company why it decided not to inform victims of a campaign of cyber attacks, discovered in 2011, which was directed against international leaders of the Tibetan and Uighur minorities in China in particular.
According to two former employees of Microsoft , experts from the company’s own concluded several years ago that the Chinese authorities were behind the campaign, but the company decided not to submit such information to users of its Hotmail service, now called Outlook.com.
In its statement, the company said both the company and the US government could not identify the sources of cyber attacks and that they did not come from a single country.
The change in company policy world’s largest software, comes after similar measures adopted in October by the Internet giants Facebook, Twitter and recently by Yahoo.
Google, which implemented this policy in 2012, said he now alert to tens of thousands of users every few months. For their part, d uring two years, Microsoft has offered warnings about potential security breaches without specifying the possible suspect.
In the statement, Microsoft said that “because the threat landscape has evolved, our approach also has done and we now go beyond . notifications and guidelines to specify if we reasonably believe that the attacker is ‘sponsored by a State’ “
Source: Reuters
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