2023

Azure SQL Database takes Saturday off on US east coast following network power failure 18/09/2023 at 18:48 By Paul Kunert At least it was the weekend Azure SQL Database caused some annoyance over the weekend with admins on the US east coast unable to connect to the service following a network infrastructure power failure.… This […]

CERN swaps out databases to feed its petabyte-a-day habit 18/09/2023 at 18:09 By Lindsay Clark Run 3 reboot provoked challenges for Europe’s particle-smashing project Europe’s particle accelerator at CERN spews out around a petabyte of data daily, which means monitoring the computing infrastructure that processes the data is crucial.… This article is an excerpt from

Eric Johnson appointed Chief Information Officer at PagerDuty 18/09/2023 at 17:03 By Eric Johnson has been hired as Chief Information Officer at PagerDuty. Johnson will oversee critical IT infrastructure with two decades of experience. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

AMD’s latest Epyc is slimmer, cooler, and ready to party at the edge 18/09/2023 at 16:34 By Tobias Mann Little chip promises big power savings AMD’s latest CPU is a shrunken Epyc optimized for power-limited and thermally challenging telco and cloud edge deployments.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

New AMBERSQUID Cryptojacking Operation Targets Uncommon AWS Services 18/09/2023 at 16:16 By A novel cloud-native cryptojacking operation has set its eyes on uncommon Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings such as AWS Amplify, AWS Fargate, and Amazon SageMaker to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. The malicious cyber activity has been codenamed AMBERSQUID by cloud and container security firm Sysdig. “The

Think Your MFA and PAM Solutions Protect You? Think Again 18/09/2023 at 16:16 By When you roll out a security product, you assume it will fulfill its purpose. Unfortunately, however, this often turns out not to be the case. A new report, produced by Osterman Research and commissioned by Silverfort, reveals that MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication)

Hook: New Android Banking Trojan That Expands on ERMAC’s Legacy 18/09/2023 at 16:16 By A new analysis of the Android banking trojan known as Hook has revealed that it’s based on its predecessor called ERMAC. “The ERMAC source code was used as a base for Hook,” NCC Group security researchers Joshua Kamp and Alberto Segura said in

California passes bill to set up one-stop data deletion shop 18/09/2023 at 15:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo Also, LockBit gets a new second stringer, AirTag owners find yet another illicit use, and this week’s critical vulns Infosec in brief  Californians may be on their way to the nation’s first “do not broker” list with the passage