On April 5th, 2021 with 27 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from The Record:
Code-hosting service GitHub is actively investigating a series of attacks against its cloud...
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On November 15th, 2020 with 46 comments
"A widely used hotel reservation platform has exposed 10 million files related to guests at various hotels around the world, thanks to a misconfigured Amazon...
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On October 12th, 2020 with 49 comments
At the end of September, Amazon debuted two especially futuristic products within five days of each other: a small autonomous surveillance drone, called Ring...
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On June 17th, 2020 with 24 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Amazon said its AWS Shield service mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever recorded, stopping a 2.3 Tbps attack...
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On May 9th, 2020 with 88 comments
A Forbes contributor notes that Belkin abruptly announced the end-of-life for its Wemo NetCams, which will discontinued on May 29 2020. But that's just the...
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On May 8th, 2020 with 74 comments
A Microsoft executive urged Amazon Web Services to "stand down on its litigation" opposing the award of the military's lucrative JEDI commercial cloud...
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On March 15th, 2020 with 39 comments
An anonymous reader quotes the "Naked Security" blog of anti-virus company Sophos:
Researchers have discovered another big database containing millions of...
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On February 22nd, 2020 with 15 comments
Personal information from more than 10.6 million people was published online this week, reports ZDNet -- all from people who'd stayed at MGM Resorts hotels...
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On February 1st, 2020 with 72 comments
Slashdot reader SpaceForceCommander shared Dice's new annual report on America's tech industry salaries based on a survey of over 12,800 "technologists":
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On January 19th, 2020 with 60 comments
ZDNet is reporting on a security breach leaking "a massive list of Telnet credentials for more than 515,000 servers, home routers, and IoT (Internet of Things)...
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On January 13th, 2020 with 25 comments
Adobe unveiled a cloud-based system to help clients build websites, bringing one of its last legacy products to the cloud almost a decade after shifting to...
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On August 9th, 2019 with 16 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: New research just presented at the Def Con security conference reveals how companies, startups and...
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On July 19th, 2019 with 30 comments
Cloud hosting provider iNSYNQ says it was hit with a ransomware attack that shut down its network and left customers unable to access their accounting data for...
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On May 22nd, 2019 with 29 comments
Millions of golfer records from the Game Golf app, including GPS details from courses played, usernames and passwords, and even Facebook login data, were all...
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On May 16th, 2019 with 20 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: ASUS' update mechanism has once again been abused to install malware that backdoors PCs, researchers...
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On December 4th, 2018 with 90 comments
Kubernetes has become the most popular cloud container orchestration system by far, so it was only a matter of time until its first major security hole was...
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On November 27th, 2018 with 101 comments
Just over a week after a global problem with its multi-factor authentication (MFA) service plagued a number of users, another Microsoft MFA outage is impacting...
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On October 23rd, 2018 with 130 comments
Amazon is learning how hard it can be to move off of Oracle's database software. From a report: On Prime Day, while the e-retailer was dealing with a major...
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On August 18th, 2018 with 83 comments
The systems and database administrator for a Fortune 500 company notes that while NFS is "decades old and predating Linux...the most obvious feature missing...
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On August 26th, 2017 with 164 comments
As in past years, "Open source is professionalizing, and employers are seeking staff with demonstrable skills," says the executive director of the Linux...
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On June 13th, 2017 with 348 comments
snydeq writes: From telling everyone they're your customer to establishing a cloud strategy, Bob Lewis outlines 12 "industry best practices" that are sure to...
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On February 24th, 2017 with 87 comments
ShaunC writes: In a bug that's been christened "Cloudbleed," Cloudflare disclosed today that some of their products accidentally exposed private user...
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On November 12th, 2016 with 45 comments
"Cloud repositories have become the hub of malicious web activities," warns one computer engineering professor. An anonymous reader quotes SC magazine:
A...
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On September 27th, 2016 with 116 comments
MojoKid writes: If you thought that the massive DDoS attack earlier this month on Brian Krebs' security blog was record-breaking, take a look at what just...
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On August 26th, 2016 with 30 comments
Dropbox is forcing a number of users to change their passwords after the cloud storage company found some account details linked to an old data breach. "The...
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On August 6th, 2016 with 19 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes The Stack: The Google cloud platform, Google Compute Engine, now allows customers to create their own encryption keys as an...
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On June 18th, 2016 with 262 comments
"Paper forms are a security risk", warns the web site for CareMonkey, which maintains digital and up-to-date medical information in the cloud "for any...
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On June 11th, 2016 with 86 comments
Orome1 quotes a report from HelpNetSecurity: Bitdefender has discovered that encrypted communications can be decrypted in real-time using a technique that has...
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On February 22nd, 2016 with 27 comments
itwbennett writes: It only takes one day of online credentials being available on the Dark Web before login attempts will start, according to security company...
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On February 8th, 2016 with 86 comments
snydeq writes: InfoWorld's Peter Wayner takes a look at the new services and pricing models that are making cloud computing more powerful, complex, and cheaper...
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