A group hacked high-profile technology companies in 2013 using a security flaw in Java on Apple Mac computers.<\/p>\n
Microsoft was one of the companies hit, and its bug-reporting and patch-tracking database for Windows was breached, reported\u00a0Reuters<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Details of the attack were revealed after five former security employees came forward to reveal that sensitive data was stolen during the attack.<\/p>\n When Microsoft discovered the database was compromised,\u00a0alarm spread inside the company. The five employees said the database was poorly protected and access was possible via little more than a password.<\/p>\n This raised concerns that hackers were using the stolen data to conduct further attacks elsewhere.<\/p>\n Microsoft then conducted a study to compare the timing of breaches with when the flaws had entered the database, and when they were patched.<\/p>\n The\u00a0study found that bugs in the database were used in attacks, but it was argued the hackers could have obtained the information elsewhere.<\/p>\n As patches had already been released to customers, this helped\u00a0justify Microsoft’s decision not to disclose the breach.<\/p>\n Three of the former security employees told Reuters the study did not rule out stolen bugs being used in future attacks, and they don’t believe Microsoft did a thorough enough investigation.<\/p>\n A group hacked high-profile technology companies in 2013 using a security flaw in Java on Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[605,3352,10582,123,807],"class_list":["post-233515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-apple","tag-apple-mac","tag-java","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233537,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233515\/revisions\/233537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0KRACK Wi-Fi hack “devastating” to Android and Linux<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"