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Microsoft bans China-based employees from using Android devices for work, mandates switch to iPhones | Part of Microsoft's global security push
The mandate, set to come into effect in September 2024, was announced in an internal memo seen by Bloomberg News. It will require Microsoft's China-based workers to...
Local smartphone giants such as Huawei and Xiaomi operate their own platforms in the country, but Microsoft has chosen to block access from those companies' devices to its corporate resources because they lack Google's mobile services, reads the memo. The hackers had access to Microsoft's corporate network for a month, breaching some of the company's source code r epositories and unspecified "internal systems." In April, a government review of the attack on Microsoft's Exchange Online hosted email service by a China-linked group blasted the company for allowing a "cascade of security failures" that were preventable and should never have occurred.
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