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Respected security practitioner Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade has criticised the manner in which Microsoft has reacted to the recent breach of its Azure cloud service, describing it as "enraging, duplicitous, disappointing, counter-productive and, most importantly, unnecessary".

Russian security outfit Kaspersky says it will continue to provide details of advanced persistent threats (APTs or nation-state actors) no matter the country of their origin, but these details will only be available to customers who subscribe to their services.

The US-Israel nation-state hacking partnership that created Stuxnet, the malware used to cripple Iran's nuclear program, lasted much longer than was known earlier, researchers from Chronicle Security, a sister company of Google, claim.