Microsoft's Brad Smith acknowledges past security failures

Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith said before a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing today that the company acknowledges its past security shortcomings and detailed new initiatives to bolster defenses, as a former employee claimed that Microsoft ignored his warnings about vulnerabilities in Active Directory that ultimately led to the hack of SolarWinds Worldwide LLC in 2020. During his testimony, Smith addressed significant breaches, including the SolarWinds hack and the compromise of Microsoft Exchange by…