Since Apple doesn’t make a lot of money by selling your data to others (or selling targeted ads to others based on data that it captures), it loves poking Google in the eye about its data collection practices. Apple required “privacy nutrition labels” by vendors, including themselves, for all new releases of software distributed in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The fallout from the data center fire at OVH in Strasboug, France continues. OVH, the third largest cloud provider in the world, lost one of 4 data centers in their complex in Strasboug last week. One other data center in the complex was seriously damaged and two more were shut down due to water being […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After SolarWinds and after the Microsoft Exchange attacks, the feds have begun to outline their plans to improve cybersecurity. While there are no silver bullets in this business, it is a nice change to see the feds actively working to improve things. The way the feds have worked things in the past is to use […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Encrypted Phone Firm Sky ECC “Hacked” by Police Police have arrested 48 people and confiscated 14 tons of Cocaine and over a million Euros, after decrypting a half billion messages and listening in on the bad guys for several weeks. The phone company said that they don’t think the encryption was cracked, but rather, they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]OVHCloud is a French data center operator providing cloud services, dedicated server and managed bare metal computing. Unfortunately, early Wednesday morning they suffered a fire in their Strasbourg, France data center. The data center complex consisted of four buildings. This is what one of them looks like now. OVHCloud is the largest European cloud service […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The media continues to report on the Microsoft Exchange hack, likely perpetrated by China. Reports are that at least 30,000 Exchange servers in the United States are impacted and some people say that number is likely way underestimated. On top of that, the number of servers worldwide is maybe ten times that number. Given all […]
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