British telecom providers face fine when using Huawei equipment
Telecommunication companies in Great Britain may face a large fine if they choose to ignore a ban on the usage of equipment made by Huawei. The policy is part of a new law put forward this week.
The fine is 10 percent of turnover or 100,000 pounds (€112.000) for every day the companies ignore ... Read more
Redis is now the most popular database within AWS
Redis, an open-source NoSQL database, is currently proving to be the most popular database within Amazon Web Services' offering. In other cloud providers, the database is a lot lower in the ranks.
The claim is made by Sumo Logic, a company focused on the development of analysis software and with... Read more
Nutanix stock price rises after better earnings than estimated
Nutanix shares have spiked in after-hours trading after the company topped estimates of its first-quarter financial results and followed that up with a clear outline of what the next three months will be like.
The data center software and services company reported a loss before stock compensatio... Read more
New SEO scam: WordPress malware sets up fake shops on existing sites
Attackers also poison the victim's keywords and SERP ranking.
There is a new cybercrime gang at work these days. Their modus operandi: take over vulnerable WordPress sites to install hidden e-commerce stores and wreak other havoc. The malefactors appear to be doing this to hijack the original si... Read more
Security Report: Web app attacks are up 800% compared to 2019
All categories of attacks have increased as hackers adapt their tactics to the pandemic world.
CDNetworks, a leading CDN and cloud security provider, has released their State of the Web Security for H1 2020 Report. The Report describes a massive increase in cyber attacks in 2020 compared to 2019... Read more
Second antitrust lawsuit against Google in the U.S.
The antitrust lawsuit is setup by seven states and could come as early as December.
A bipartisan group of U.S. states plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google as early as next month. The swift action could potentially beat a more widely anticipated lawsuit from a different group of stat... Read more
Microsoft improves privacy policy based on EU advice
Microsoft has added two new guidelines to its privacy policy. They are mainly aimed at dealing with data requests from governments. In doing so, the company claims to go well beyond the recommendations set by the European Data Protection Board.
In a blog post, Microsoft promises that if it recei... Read more
Study finds that an AI’s machine language still lacks common sense
"Two dogs are throwing Frisbees at each other" sounds good to the AI, but not to us.
Despite advances in natural language processing, an AI still doesn’t have the common sense to understand human language, according to a new study.
A team of computer scientists from the University of South... Read more
Manchester United is the victim of cyber attack
The British football club Manchester United has been hit by a cyber attack. It appears to be a ransomware attack, but it is not clear whether the attackers managed to steal anything.
The football club posted a message on its website, simply saying that a cyber attack has taken place and it has t... Read more
New Rubrik Andes version is much faster at performing backups
Rubrik has released a new version of Andes. With version 5.3 the company has implemented several optimizations to speed up the backup process. The backup platform has also received improved support for some cloud solutions.
Performance
In a press release, Rubrik claims that Andes 5.3 is 10 ti... Read more