Vantage Data Centers comes to London with €560 million investment
Vantage Data Centers announced its start on the London market with the development of a 48MW datacenter campus valued at £500 million (about €560 million).
The new campus will be situated on nearly five acres (two hectares) in the PowerGate neighborhood of North Acton in the northwest part of... Read more
German antitrust authority cites Google for data processing violation
Germany's antitrust regulator, the so-called Bundeskartellamt, announced that it has issued objections against Google's data processing terms, ordering the tech giant to move to comply with national antitrust laws.
The agency said that "the new provisions for large digital companies (Section 19a... Read more
Twitter refutes reports of massive data breach
The social media giant claims the alleged data leak of 200 million users was not stolen by exploiting its systems.
This week Twitter officially responded to accusations of an enormous dataset of user email addresses being stolen from its systems and subsequently sold online.
Twitter's Privacy... Read more
Auth0 fixes RCE vulnerability in popular JsonWebToken library
The fix mitigates a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in a library that's used for 22,000 projects.
Authentication and authorization services provider Auth0 has fixed a remote code execution vulnerability in the 'JsonWebToken' open-source library. As reported by BleepingComputer, the fix... Read more
Kingsing malware exploits Kubernetes environments
Threat actors are using vulnerabilities in the PostgreSQL containers.
The Microsoft Defender for Cloud security team reports that Kinsing malware is actively breaching Kubernetes clusters. On January 5, Sunders Bruskin, a Security Researcher at Microsoft Defender for Cloud, detailed the methodol... Read more
European carriers form joint venture for ads based on digital IDs
Europe's largest telcos want to take the next step in commercializing digital identities. Four of Europe's largest telecommunications giants have filed a joint venture (JV) proposal with the European Commission.
Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, France’s Orange, Spain’s Telefónica and the UK’... Read more
VSCode Marketplace poses security risks, researchers warn
The online marketplace could easily host malicious VSCode extensions, Aqua Security says.
Researchers from Aqua Security have recently discovered that attackers can easily trick unknowing developers into downloading malicious files disguised as popular Visual Studio Code extensions. "In original... Read more
‘UK Prime Minister revives talks on Arm IPO’
The move comes after a failed attempt to bring the listing to London last year.
British Prime Minister (PM) Rishi Sunak has revived talks with Japan's SoftBank Group regarding a London listing for chip designer Arm, according to a report in the Financial Times.
While Arm is based in the UK, ... Read more
AWS adds default encryption to Amazon S3
All objects added to the storage service will now be encrypted by default.
AWS has announced that all objects added to Simple Storage Service (S3) will be encrypted automatically by default, effective immediately. This means that the Amazon Server Side Encryption (SSE) service will be applied au... Read more
Researchers find DoS vulnerabilities in Rust Hyper
The JFrog Security Research team has discovered and disclosed multiple DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerabilities in popular Rust projects such as Axum, Salvo and conduit-hyper.
In a recent blog post, JFrog says that all vulnerabilities stem from the same root cause, namely developers failing to se... Read more