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Police infiltrate shady DDoS-as-a-service marketplace DigitalStress
Officers "covertly and overtly accessed" communication platforms to spy on would-be attackers' conversations
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Microsoft
Why the Microsoft and CISPE deal is bad news for European cloud providers
"Both parties are happy with the deal, proclaiming that it will bring more competition to the cloud computing market. It’s hard to see how."
American Express
American Express to spend $6 billion on marketing in 2024, as AI, AP data give confidence
The company is using "AI to enhance the effectiveness of our sales and marketing engine
supercomputer
Supercomputer cluster planned for site of shut-down European fusion reactor
Project aims to support AI compute demands with new "large scale" data centres on campus that once housed the world's most advanced fusion research facility
Dell
Dell lands £50 million per year NHS contract
Investment comes as Spring budget confirmed £3.4 billion funding for NHS technology
crowdstrike
Crowdstrike promises RCA as C++ null pointer claim contested
"We are committed to identifying any foundational or workflow improvements" says EDR firm.
Google facing antitrust investigation in Italy
Watchdog set to probe practices to determine if they "constitute a misleading and aggressive commercial practice."
cybercrime
Mandiant warns of 'sustained campaign' by China's ATP41 threat group
Threat actor decrypts malicious payloads and executes them in memory, leaving 'minimal forensic traces.'
Outages
CrowdStrike’s unholy cluster is terrible news for CISOs
AWS EC2 Windows instances also borked with Crowdstrike's manual mitigation not working. Guidance available but...
crowdstrike
Crowdstrike CEO apologises after content update "defect" caused global blue screen of death outage
"I don’t think it’s too early to call it: this will be the largest IT outage in history," celebrity cybersecurity specialist announces
NVIDIA
Nvidia acquires its fourth Cloud AI startup this year
“We are at the iPhone moment of AI..."
SolarWinds
SolarWinds and its CISO not off the hook over “materially misleading” security statement
"Flat falsehoods" says district judge of public security statement -- but dismisses multiple other SEC claims.