Three workers at a Google Data Center have been critically burned following an explosion Three workers at a Google Data Center have been critically burned following an explosion Yesterday, an electrical explosion occurred at Google’s data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, leaving three people with severe burns. First responders immediately arrived at the scene and […]
The FBI has retrieved the $500,000 ransom paid by healthcare organizations to the Maui ransomware The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the successful seizure of approximately $500,000 worth of Bitcoin, which had been paid by American healthcare providers to the operators of the Maui ransomware strain. The seizure follows the discovery of Maui by […]
Elon Musk, the controversial entrepreneur and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is facing a massive $258 billion lawsuit over his involvement with the cryptocurrency Dogecoin. The lawsuit was filed by Keith Johnson, who alleges that Musk and his companies were part of a racketeering scheme designed to control the price of Dogecoin and deceive people […]
Microsoft’s May 2022 Patch Tuesday is underway, featuring fixes for a total of 75 flaws, including three zero-day vulnerabilities, with one being actively exploited. Eight of these flaws are classified as ‘Critical’ as they allow remote code execution or elevation of privileges. Of the 75 vulnerabilities, there are 21 elevation of privilege vulnerabilities, four security […]
Atlassian, a provider of cloud-based collaboration software, has attributed a prolonged partial outage to an update to a maintenance script. The outage, which began on April 5th, is still ongoing, affecting services including Jira Software, Jira Work Management, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Opsgenie Cloud, Statuspage, and Atlassian Access for some of its customers. Around 400 […]
If you own a Samsung Galaxy S20 smartphone, you may already have access to Samsung Cloud – a cloud-based solution that allows you to remotely store files from your Samsung mobile device. Samsung SDS handles the servers for Samsung Cloud, and this division operates in over 40 countries worldwide. However, note that Samsung will no […]
On Sunday, logistics company Expeditors International, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, announced that it had been hit by a cyberattack that had disrupted its global systems. The Fortune 500 company reported that most of its operating systems had been shut down, and its customers had been informed that their operations had been impacted. The company referred […]
Nowadays, safeguarding the security and integrity of data is a significant challenge for most companies. However, many employees do not seem to share this concern, as their data management practices are often inadequate. A recent report by Western Digital, based on a survey of 737 data managers and 1,467 data users in several countries, revealed […]
A Romanian affiliate suspected of being involved in ransomware attacks on multiple high-profile companies worldwide, including a large Romanian IT firm with clients from the retail, energy, and utilities sectors, was arrested by Romanian law enforcement authorities. The suspect, a 41-year-old Romanian national, was apprehended at his home in Craiova by the Romanian Directorate for […]
Google Cloud services have experienced their second significant outage in less than a week, with service disruption affecting thousands of major customers. The cloud networking issue occurred for around two hours and left millions unable to access web pages. The incident appeared to stem from a configuration change to Google Cloud’s load balancing services, briefly […]