The EU is gearing to force big tech companies to share customer data with significantly smaller competitors. The Financial Times reported the story on Wednesday and cited an early draft of the ‘Digital Services Act’ regulations. Amazon and Google shall not use data collected on the platform ... Read more
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Businesses have not yet mastered the deployment of privileged access management. In the UK and the US, the improper management of privileged access leaves many businesses at risk of ransomware attacks, data breaches and other malicious attacks. In a new report from Forcepoint, which involved mor... Read more
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New "Ground Station as a Service" (GSaaS) is designed to compete with Amazon Web Services. Companies with satellites can use Microsoft's ground stations to connect to their satellites. Microsoft used Ignite 2020 as the stage to debut Azure Orbital, a service which helps satellite sector customer... Read more
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The EU continues to take the fight to the tech giants, deploying a new array of legal powers contained in the block's updated Digital Services Act. Thierry Breton, the EU's bad boy of technology oversight, is at it again. As the EC's Commissioner of Internal Market, Breton is responsible for "th... Read more
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Google is now banning ‘stalkerware' apps from the Play Store starting October 1st. However, the apps can still be offered if specified for use in tasks like tracking children or for enterprise use in some specific conditions. Stalkerware apps give third parties the ability to track a user’s ... Read more
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Heatwaves and storms are increasing humidity levels in Europe and threatening to wreak havoc on data center performance. The weather patterns in Europe, as in many parts of the world, are becoming increasingly volatile. In a new report by Aggreko, the weather patterns in Europe could introduce s... Read more
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Oracle is trying to persuade users of JSON document-based databases to migrate to its own cloud-based Autonomous Database service. For this purpose, the cloud and data giant introduces the Oracle Autonomous JSON Database service. With the introduction of Oracle Autonomous JSON Database, users of... Read more
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Google commissioned new research on how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected IT budgets in the market and found that 60% of all enterprises that were surveyed expect no change or an increase in their spending this year. The 40% left, said that they anticipate a reduction in spending, due to the co... Read more
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A lawsuit, targeting the photo-sharing app Instagram, claims that Facebook has been illegally harvesting biometrics data of the app’s users. Last month, Facebook offered to pay $650 million to settle a lawsuit where the accusation was about illegal biometric data harvesting. In the previous la... Read more
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There are a lot of AWS S3 storage buckets that can expose their stored data at any moment due to misconfiguration, according to an investigation by Truffle Security. AWS S3 storage buckets are a common way of storing files in AWS. The buckets can be viewed online by anyone with no prior authenti... Read more
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