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Six alleged drug criminals will go free thanks to a ransomware attack on a small Florida city, it was revealed this month. Continue reading Ransomware wipes evidence, lets suspected drug dealers walk free
A ransomware attack against the police department in Stuart, Florida last year had an unexpected consequence; the police officers had to drop several cases after losing important evidence. When a ransomware attack hits an institution or company, expect… Continue reading Ransomware Attack in Florida Forces Prosecutor to Drop Charges in Drug Cases
Attorney General Barr and President Trump are demanding Apple unlock the mass shooter’s iPhone. Apple replies: You can’t break just 1 phone. Continue reading Apple says no to unlocking shooter’s phone; AG and Trump lash back
What kinds of businesses might be able to operate in space? Well datacenter are one potential target you might not have thought of. Space provides an interesting environment for datacenter operations, including advanced analytics operations and even artificial intelligence, due in part to the excellent cooling conditions and reasonable access to renewable power supply (solar). […] Continue reading OrbitsEdge partners with HPE on orbital datacenter computing and analytics
“Here’s our new bank account number,” the scammers said. When the real construction firm sent their invoice, payment was made to the crooks. Continue reading Florida city sends $742K to fraudsters as it bites the BEC hook
A friend heard a couple arguing but couldn’t make out what it was about. Police hope that Alexa might have a better idea. Continue reading Police interrogate Alexa for clues in fatal spear-stabbing
One of the most interesting (and confusing) news announcements of Microsoft’s Build developer conference earlier this year was the first public demo of the company’s Fluid Framework. Fluid is meant to make building collaborative real-time editing experiences easier for developers, but Microsoft is also building it into some of its own tools like Office and […] Continue reading Microsoft launches the first public preview of its Fluid Framework for collaborative editing
At its annual Ignite event in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft today announced that Azure FarmBeats, a project that until now was mostly a research effort, will be available as a public preview and in the Azure Marketplace, starting today. FarmBeats is Microsoft’s project that combines IoT sensors, data analysis and machine learning. “The goal of FarmBeats […] Continue reading Microsoft Azure gets into ag tech with the preview of FarmBeats
Posted by Ratnesh Pandey, Alex Holland and Toby Gray. In June 2019, Microsoft issued warnings about a phishing campaign delivering a new variant of the FlawedAmmyy remote access Trojan (RAT), and a spike in the exploitation of CVE-2017-11882&… Continue reading Protect Before You Detect: FlawedAmmyy and the Case for Isolation
After suffering a ransomware attack that crippled municipal systems, the city of Lake City in Florida, USA, has fired its director of information technology. As the (updated) story goes, Lake City was initially hit without a ransom demand from the atta… Continue reading Lake City fires its IT director after paying hackers $460K in ransom