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]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]Starting from the beginning. DNS is the service that converts the web site address that you type in your browser like WWW.CNN.COM into the numbers, like 2a04:4e42:200::323:, that the Internet needs in order to connect you to that web site. DNS was invented because they didn’t think the web would be really popular if you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While there are plenty of private companies that were compromised by the SolarWinds attack, more importantly, many federal government departments and agencies including Treasury, State, the Nuclear Management folks, the FAA and others were compromised and information was stolen. Congress is getting into the act; we will see if anything positive happens or Congress loses […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Now that the power is mostly back on in Texas and the majority of people can drink the water, the what-iffing begins. This is relevant because Texas is far from alone. They just got caught this time and they will be pilloried – for the most part appropriately – as a result. #1 – According […]
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