DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Security & Risk, Alex Alley
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Sophos suffers security breach, second incident this year
The cybersecurity company revealed the breach in an email to clients
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Global Switch's fire safety 'malfunction' damages Sydney data center servers
Tenant TAB experienced an outage at the worst possible time for a bookies
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Oracle rolls out two Government Cloud Regions in the UK
The two Clouds will be linked via Oracle's private network
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TikTok CSO says app's services are separate from ByteDance's Chinese operations
He also took the time to clarify some of the big concerns about its security
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Falling power line knocks out network at Connecticut state data center
Investigations are underway as to what caused the transformer to fall
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Unisys data center failure downs Pennsylvania's state website
A host of Pennsylvania's services went down including voter registration
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FCC commissioner calls for greater scrutiny over 'adversary' submarine cable connections
With a focus on China
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Facebook claims potential data restrictions will force it to drop EU platforms
It also won an extension to legally challenge a suspension of EU-US data transfers
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Ireland's Eir remains committed to keeping Huawei in its 5G network
Until the EU says otherwise...
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Ireland to order Facebook to halt data transfers from EU to US
The legal drama that shook the EU and US digital relationship continues...
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New Chinese export policy threatens forced sale of TikTok US
So... checkmate?
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Walmart joins Microsoft in joint bid to buy TikTok
Big retail joins big tech
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Investment firm, James Hay Partnership's website and phones down after data center outage
The company has repaired the fault and its site and phones are back up and running
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TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer steps down amid political battle with US government
Authorities are forcing TikTok to sell up its US division or be blocked out of the US markets entirely
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Former Uber chief security officer charged with covering up hack
Hackers were paid $100,000 in Bitcoin to keep it all hush hush
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Report: Google Cloud sold $800m in cloud services to TikTok in 2019
TikTok seems to be under the sword of Damocles
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IBM settles 2006 National Defense University hacking case for $900k
The settlement was agreed in October
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Macquarie Government granted security clearance for Australian Defence Cloud contracts
Now on the Aussie Government's VIP list
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Microsoft buys data analytics firm ADRM Software
Azure's latest acquisition will help business, execs say
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Macquarie Data Centres to build secure government facility in Canberra, Australia
It should be finished by the end of the year
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British man jailed for arson on Vodafone 4G mast (that he thought was 5G)
He convinced himself the telephone mast was somehow linked to Covid-19
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Legal entity for Gaia-X established, European cloud platform now official
It's a bid to keep data safe and secure in Europe
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Cisco details SaltStack flaws that led to multiple hacks
Six servers were left vulnerable by a flawed software package
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Network monitoring company Kentik agrees $23m investment
The firm services some of the industry's biggest names
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Cisco to acquire Internet monitoring company ThousandEyes
The deal is estimated to be around $1bn
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Imperial College London agrees £5m sponsorship from Huawei
The money will be going to establish a "tech hub"
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Zoom acquires Keybase.io to tighten its own security measures
Zoom needed the experts from Keybase to optimize the platform's security
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ITU publishes guidelines to ease strain on comms networks
The UN agency for telecoms has also co-developed a tabletop simulation that can plot out emergency responses