{"id":948942,"date":"2025-07-23T08:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948942"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T03:17:00","slug":"microsoft-knew-of-sharepoint-flaw-in-may-patch-failed-to-block-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/23\/microsoft-knew-of-sharepoint-flaw-in-may-patch-failed-to-block-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft knew of SharePoint flaw in May, patch failed to block hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A security patch released by Microsoft earlier this month failed to fully fix a critical flaw in the U.S. tech company\u2019s SharePoint server software that had been identified at a hacking competition in May, opening the door to a sweeping global cyber espionage operation, according to a timeline of events reviewed by Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday that its initial solution did not work. The spokesperson added that Microsoft had released further patches that fixed the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A security patch released by Microsoft earlier this month failed to fully fix a critical flaw in the U.S. tech company\u2019s SharePoint server software that had been identified at a hacking competition in May, opening the door to a sweeping global cyber espionage operation, according to a timeline of events reviewed by Reuters. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday that its initial solution did not work. The spokesperson added that Microsoft had released further patches that fixed the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}