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New York-based cloud security firm Wiz has warned companies and organisations affected by the recent Microsoft Azure breach that the impact of the intrusion may be much wider than reported, and could affect applications beyond those claimed by Microsoft to be impacted.

Apparently stung by the criticism of both vendors and security practitioners over the lack of logs to analyse a recent breach of its cloud service, Microsoft has backed down to some extent on charging customers for providing access to logging services.

Microsoft is coming under increasing pressure from both the security community and the US Government after it was disclosed that the company's cloud platform was breached and emails stolen from a number of government agencies, allegedly by Chinese attackers.

COMPANY NEWS: Apptio, the leading technology spend and value management company, today made several announcements at its Public Sector Summit 2023.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price appears to have forgotten that his country's government is pursuing WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange over publishing material that has embarrassed Washington.

The US Department of State has offered a reward of US$10 million (A$13.5 million) for information leading to the identification of location of any of the leaders of the DarkSide Windows ransomware gang.

The ban imposed on the issue of H-1B visas by the US in June last year has ended after the order expired on Wednesday.

The raw audio of a 75-minute phone call between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Obama era State Department attorney Cliff Johnson in August 2011 gives credence to claims made by the whistleblower organisation that a rogue former employee was behind the leak of unredacted classified State Department cables.

American cyber security firm FireEye, which last week said it had suffered a breach and lost its attack tools, says it has identified a global campaign to compromise public and private sector bodies through corruption of software supply chains, using software that runs on Windows.

The Australian Government-owned defence industry lobby group, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, appears to have spent oodles of American money on studies that are virulently anti-China, raising serious doubts over Canberra's claim that it has not picked a side in the battle for supremacy between the two global giants.

The chief executive of an Australian company that provides managed cyber detection and incident response services, says large multinationals are offering businesses a false sense of security, because the latter lack an understanding of cyber security requirements.

The US State Department selectively leaked parts of two diplomatic cables about the infectious disease research lab in China's Wuhan Province to the Washington Post, resulting in a badly skewed op-ed about security at the lab being written by columnist Josh Rogin.

Comments by a spokesperson from the US State Department, claiming that the US National Defence Authorisation Act, which included a ban on public procurement of Huawei technologies, was based on evidence, have drawn a sarcastic rejoinder from China.

Two major US allies in the Persian Gulf have apparently ignored Washington's advice about not using equipment from Chinese vendor Huawei in their 5G networks and signed deals with the company.

US-based global provider of cloud-based, digital experience management solutions, Acquia, has appointed former White House and US State Department technology leader, Tom Cochran, as vice-president and chief digital strategist for the public sector.

The trickle of cables has become a flood and there's a new encrypted file on the loose.

Reports that the US State Department is funding an 'Internet in a suitcase' to the tune of $2 million shows that there are still those in the land of the free and the home of the brave who believe in defeating censorship.