Software giant Microsoft has reported record revenue for both the final quarter of the financial year 2019 and the whole year, pulling in US$33.7 billion for the quarter, a 12% year-on-year increase, and US$125.8 billion for the year, 14% more than in the preceding financial year.

Microsoft has unveiled a software solution known as ElectionGuard at a security forum in Aspen, Colorado, even as it said it had informed 10,000 of its customers of being targeted or compromised by nation-state attackers in the last 12 months.

Windows machines which have the remote desktop protocol enabled received login attempts within a day of being exposed on the Internet, the British security firm Sophos says, adding that the 10 honeypots it placed received a total of 4.3 million failed login attempts in a 30-day period.