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Pentagon 'doubling down' on Microsoft despite 'massive hack,' senators complain

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Date Published: 2024-06-04

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Jessica Lyons

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US Senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt criticized the Pentagon for deepening its dependence on Microsoft—via a planned upgrade to E5 licenses—despite the Cyber Safety Review Board’s findings that Microsoft’s “avoidable errors” enabled China’s Storm-0558 to access senior US officials’ emails. They pressed DoD for justification on the E5 timeline, technical rationale, multi-vendor strategy, support for open source security, and whether Microsoft has delivered promised free cloud security logs to government customers.

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