Microsoft ended the week with a pair of black eyes: a failure to secure a security certificate brought its Azure cloud service tumbling down, and the company also confessed to being the latest corporate victim of a high-profile hacking attempt. The Azure failure also affected Microsoft's Xbox game, Halo 4, Microsoft confirmed. The highest-profile incident may have had the least effect: "a small number" of Microsoft PCs were penetrated by an unknown intruder. No user data was compromised, Microsoft said in a blog post.  "Consistent with our security response practices, we chose not to ... Read More