DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Cyber, Sebastian Moss, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Boeing outage significantly disrupts commercial and military production across US
Not believed to be a cyberattack
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Anthropic disables latest AI model after US order limits foreign access
Amazon's CEO warned the government about the model
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Bloomberg claims UK gov't considered destroying London data center with Chinese owners over spy concerns
Amid broader allegations of Chinese espionage and hacking claims
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Microsoft to increase European data center capacity by 40 percent, pledges to protect local customers over US threats
Brad Smith pens plea to European community after Trump hostility
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Data center power supply business Bender hit by ransomware attack
Production impacted, but no data was compromised
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Equinix CIO and CISO leave: "The two departures are not related"
Michael Montoya and Milind Wagle depart colocation giant
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CrowdStrike IT outage brought down 8.5 million Windows devices, will take time to recover
Software was more likely to be installed on enterprise and critical IT
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Think tank warns North Korea could use public cloud providers to train military AI
But it's unclear where they are currently using compute resources
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Schneider Electric Sustainability Business division hit by ransomware attack, customer data accessed
The situation is ongoing, unclear if company will pay hackers
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CBO finds no additional costs from Federal Data Center Enhancement Act 2023
Would improve physical and digital security of federal data centers
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Dish confirms cyber attack behind extended outage; data stolen
Likely a ransomware attack
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Major InterContinental Hotels Group outage blamed on "unauthorized activity"
Customers struggle to book as systems go offline
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TikTok’s chief security officer steps down, as US data is moved to Oracle
Amid claims the company sent user data to China
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Ukraine: Ukrtelecom hit by 15 hour outage due to cyberattack
Largest outage in Ukraine since Russia's war began
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Ukrainian troops seize Russian electronic warfare system, hand to US
Western forces will study the advanced system
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FCC labels Kaspersky, China Telecom, & China Mobile as "threats to US national security"
Does not mention the Ukraine war as the reason for the designation
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Toyota shuts down Japanese factory operations due to supplier cyberattack
Prime Minister promises to find out whether Russia was involved
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Russian government websites go down again in apparent cyberattack
As hacking collective Anonymous claims it is attacking Russia
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Nvidia reportedly hit by cyberattack, some systems go down
It is unclear how widespread the outage is
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US logistics giant Expeditors International goes down in major cyberattack
Likely further impacting strained supply chains
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Biden presented options over Russia's Ukraine invasion, including disrupting Internet connectivity, power supplies, or railroad switches
It would represent an unprecedented cyberattack
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Russian government websites go down after country invades Ukraine
We don't know who is behind the DDoS attacks
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As Russia invades Ukraine, Kharkiv and Kyiv Internet is disrupted, and websites come under attack
Internet services impacted as part of a wider invasion
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Ukrainian defense ministry and PrivatBank websites go down in targeted DDoS
Who on Earth could be responsible?
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China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology suspends Alibaba Cloud partnership over security lapse
Says it was not informed about a significant vulnerability
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Report: AWS uncertain about true cause of massive outage, internal note warns of firewall "overwhelmed by unknown source"
Not clear if it was an internal mistake, or something more nefarious
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Anonymous claims to have stolen "a decade's worth of data" from Epik, a webhost favored by the far-right
A huge hack of a controversial company
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Web Hosting Canada says unauthorized activity by third-party service provider caused major outage, data loss
We don't know if this was a disgruntled employee or a strange accident