{"id":956807,"date":"2025-08-22T11:09:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956807"},"modified":"2025-08-22T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T05:39:24","slug":"microsoft-shuts-down-early-access-if-chinese-companies-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/22\/microsoft-shuts-down-early-access-if-chinese-companies-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft shuts down early access if Chinese companies to\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has curtailed Chinese companies&#8217; access to advance notifications about cybersecurity vulnerabilities after investigating whether leaked information led to massive hacks targeting its SharePoint software, according to Bloomberg. The company restricted access last month for participants in countries &#8220;where they&#8217;re required to report vulnerabilities to their governments,&#8221; which includes China.The decision affects the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP), which provides security firms worldwide with early details about software flaws so they can protect customers faster. More than 400 government agencies and corporations were breached in recent SharePoint attacks that Microsoft blamed on state-sponsored Chinese hackers, including the US National Nuclear Security Administration, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has curtailed Chinese companies&#8217; access to advance notifications about cybersecurity vulnerabilities after investigating whether leaked information led to massive hacks targeting its SharePoint software, according to Bloomberg. The company restricted access last month for participants in countries &#8220;where they&#8217;re required to report vulnerabilities to their governments,&#8221; which includes China.The decision affects the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP), which provides security firms worldwide with early details about software flaws so they can protect customers faster. More than 400 government agencies and corporations were breached in recent SharePoint attacks that Microsoft blamed on state-sponsored Chinese hackers, including the US National Nuclear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956807","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}