Las Vegas didn’t fold during CrowdStrike outage

Sin City’s chief information officer says incident response playbooks and muscle memory limited the incident’s impact locally.

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AWS updates its edge computing solutions with new hardware and Local Zones

AWS today closed out its first re:Invent keynote with a focus on edge computing. The company launched two smaller appliances for its Outpost service, which originally brought AWS as a managed service and appliance right into its customers’ existing data centers in the form of a large rack. Now, the company is launching these smaller […] Continue reading AWS updates its edge computing solutions with new hardware and Local Zones

Las Vegas Students’ Personal Data Leaked, Post-Ransomware Attack

A researcher said he discovered an open data cache with names, grades, birthdates and more, after the Clark County School District refused to pay the ransom. Continue reading Las Vegas Students’ Personal Data Leaked, Post-Ransomware Attack

Ransomware And Zoom-Bombing: Cyberattacks Disrupt Back-to-School Plans

Cyberattacks have caused several school systems to delay students’ first day back – and experts warn that new Covid-related threats will continue plaguing classrooms. Continue reading Ransomware And Zoom-Bombing: Cyberattacks Disrupt Back-to-School Plans

DEF CON is Canceled. Wanna Buy a Bridge?

We’re told DEF CON 28 is canceled. But obviously we’re not stupid enough to fall for that old trick.
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Google Cloud announces four new regions as it expands its global footprint

Google Cloud today announced its plans to open four new data center regions. These regions will be in Delhi (India), Doha (Qatar), Melbourne (Australia) and Toronto (Canada) and bring Google Cloud’s total footprint to 26 regions. The company previously announced that it would open regions in Jakarta, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Seoul and Warsaw over the course of […] Continue reading Google Cloud announces four new regions as it expands its global footprint

Google Cloud opens its Seoul region

Google Cloud today announced that its new Seoul region, its first in Korea, is now open for business. The region, which it first talked about last April, will feature three availability zones and support for virtually all of Google Cloud’s standard service, ranging from Compute Engine to BigQuery, Bigtable and Cloud Spanner. With this, Google […] Continue reading Google Cloud opens its Seoul region