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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs the Tanks Rolled into Ukraine, So Did Malware. Then Microsoft Entered the War.
WASHINGTON Last Wednesday, a few hours before Russian tanks began rolling into Ukraine, alarms went off inside Microsofts Threat Intelligence Center, warning of a never-before-seen piece of wiper malware that appeared aimed at the countrys government ministries and financial institutions.
Within three hours, Microsoft threw itself into the middle of a ground war in Europe from 5,500 miles away. The threat center, north of Seattle, had been on high alert, and it quickly picked apart the malware, named it FoxBlade and notified Ukraines top cyberdefense authority. Within three hours, Microsofts virus detection systems had been updated to block the code, which erases wipes data on computers in a network.
Then Tom Burt, the senior Microsoft executive who oversees the companys effort to counter major cyberattacks, contacted Anne Neuberger, the White Houses deputy national security adviser for cyber- and emerging technologies. Neuberger asked if Microsoft would consider sharing details of the code with the Baltics, Poland and other European nations, out of fear that the malware would spread beyond Ukraines borders, crippling the military alliance or hitting West European banks.
Before midnight in Washington, Neuberger had made introductions and Microsoft had begun playing the role that Ford Motor Co. did in World War II, when the company converted automobile production lines to make Sherman tanks.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tanks-rolled-ukraine-did-malware-123818484.html
Tough luck Pooty Poop.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)PortTack
(32,754 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)I like the way Microsoft is, according to the article, not neutral.
calimary
(81,194 posts)A Thought for Starters:
Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
· Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political
activist, Nobel Laureate, Holocaust survivor
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)mitch96
(13,885 posts)He sent people over to Germany to help with their assembly line production of weapons...fucker.. Another anti-Semite...
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geardaddy
(24,926 posts)Like Prescott Bush, who continued doing business with Nazi Germany.
comradebillyboy
(10,143 posts)defense production in WW2. Henry Ford's antisemitism didn't prevent Ford Motor Company from producing huge quantities of war material to defeat the Axis powers. The Soviets were happy to get all those thousands and thousands of Ford trucks to aid their war effort.
Purity is a rare commodity and it's not at all helpful in building a coalition to achieve common goals.
erronis
(15,222 posts)Capitalism has no moral standards except to take from others and enrich the takers.
Doesn't matter if they are building tanks for the Allies or the Axis, or building F-150s for our consumer society.
No different from the Kochs, the Sacklers, Carnegies, Rockefellers, etc. No different from the current batch of plutocrats and oligarchs.
Capitalism is evil. Just a nice word with a whole lot of marketing material behind it.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)Only serves ogliarches.
Until the lower classes suffer economic abuse severe enough to say,fuck the ogliarches and take what they've stolen back.
Changes will be limited by them.
Hopefully humanity will do it before the earth is a barren rock of fire and ice,storms and pollution.
Ogliarches want more and more their greed for even more never stops.
And capitalism creates this.
Greed is never a good thing to base an economic system on.
wnylib
(21,420 posts)in Europe.
And while Hitler was rising in power in Europe, Ford was publishing a hate-filled anti Semitic newspaper in the US. He paid for it out of his own pocket because he did not want to deal with advertisers or backers who would object to what he wrote.
burrowowl
(17,636 posts)He did not do it willingly since he was an admirer of Hitler.
ffr
(22,668 posts)Fla Dem
(23,637 posts)They can be criticized for other things, but this was a major action against Russia's attempt to cripple Ukraine's and possibly other nations' cyber operations.
Hooray for Microsoft!
PatSeg
(47,370 posts)Hekate
(90,630 posts)jaxexpat
(6,815 posts)Loose chips sink ships.
We shall fight them on the hard drive, we shall meet them on the motherboard, the coaxial of evil shall not prevail.
calimary
(81,194 posts)And all the rest of your post, jaxexpat! Is that a "jaxexpat original"?
AWESOME!!!!
Just absolutely freakin' FANTASTIC!!!!!
And eminently quotable!!!
90-percent
(6,829 posts)From Rosie the riveter to Annie the analyst.
Loose chips sink ships.
We shall fight them on the hard drive, we shall meet them on the motherboard, the coaxial of evil shall not prevail.
i hope some make it to viral status.
-90 jimmy
2Gingersnaps
(1,000 posts)Even better, I understood what you said. Take that grandson!
AllaN01Bear
(18,119 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Handler
(336 posts)calimary
(81,194 posts)Glad you're here! Quite often, you'll find the breaking news and big headlines here, first, before they pick it up on TV and cable (after they wait through another commercial break ...).
erronis
(15,222 posts)Apparently the russian gangs, including the kremlin government, have their own problems.
More to come.
rockfordfile
(8,701 posts)Hitler had a picture of Henry Ford on his desk. There's a Ford plant in Germany during WW2 that used slaves. It took years for Jewish survivors to get any repercussions.
Charlie Chaplin did great mocking of Ford in Modern Times.
roscoeroscoe
(1,369 posts)... but Microsoft Defender is high speed. This is a big win in the cyber domain - Putin was probably told his cyber units could cripple Ukraine.
STAND WITH UKRAINE!
Diraven
(509 posts)Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Cha
(297,112 posts)coming Together!
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)The long hours will continue. God bless all of them. If not for those folks I would guess retaliatory hits on the financial systems would be hitting targets.