Monday Tech Wrap: Microsoft, Uber, Google

Microsoft's chief legal officer, Brad Smith (left) said governments should treat the WannaCry ransomware attack as a "wake-up call." Microsoft has criticized governments and intelligence agencies for "stockpiling" vulnerabilities in government computer systems, in the wake of of the WannaCry ransomware that has so far affected 150 countries and an estimated 200,000 computers since Friday. The virus exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows XP which was originally discovered by, and then stolen from, the National Security Agency. "The governments of the world should treat this attack as a wake-up call," Microsoft's chief legal officer Brad Smith wrote in a blog post on Sunday. "They need to take a different approach and adhere in cyberspace to the same rules applied to weapons in the physical world. We need governments to consider the damage to civilians that comes from hoarding these vulnerabilities and the use of these exploits."