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We have come to think of hackers as being coding geniuses who never get anything wrong. Yet to the dismay of some victims, we are learning that even the best hackers make coding mistakes. A case in point is a recently discovered variant of Power Worm. Power Worm is a...
In the latest twist on cloud computing news, Google stands ready to take high-speed internet access to the next level with a full-scale launch of Project Loon next year. If the project meets expectations, Google may have an airborne flotilla of high altitude balloons providing internet access to areas of...
The latest DDoS attack launched against Talk Talk made all of the media rounds over the weekend. At first, the attack was advertised as being far more serious than it really was, leaving millions of Talk Talk customers wondering whether or not their identities would be stolen and their finances...
Drive by the National Guard base in Bluffdale, Washington - just south of Salt Lake City - and you will notice a group of nondescript buildings that seem anything but out of place at a US military installation. However, among those buildings is a $1.7 billion data centre operated by...
Over the last five years, the UK government has been working hard to ensure that its goal of ninety-five per cent of households being connected to superfast broadband by 2017 is met. The whole effort has been in contract with just one company – BT. However, on October 12th (2015)...
The new amendment to the Information Law No. 242-FZ forbids storage of Russian citizens’ personal data outside of Russia. The change has posed new challenges to many foreign and domestic companies which already store their users’ data in borderless clouds. According to the Russian authorities, up to 2.4 million companies...
Social network giant Facebook has teamed up with French satellite operator Eutelsat in a bid to boldly go where no social network has gone before. Star Trek connotations aside, the deal is a deadly serious attempt by Facebook to beam - from space - free internet to those parts of...
To those of us residing in the United Kingdom, America’s system of taxation can be downright confusing – federal taxes, state taxes, city taxes … the list goes on. However, the latest taxation amendment in Chicago should have us all – and by all we mean anyone/thing connected to digital,...
Data Centres are critical in today’s society with almost every aspect of our activities being in some way reliant upon the internet and transfer and storage of electronic data. Governments, Utilities, Banks, businesses & the general public rely on Data Centres for their Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Cyber defence...
As the threat of cyber-attacks continues to increase unabated, the government has been telling British businesses that it is in their own and, by extension, the British public’s, best interests to increase spending on online security. This comes on the back of a recent survey that discovered an astonishing ninety...
Russia is by no means a dominant force in the worldwide data centre industry. Its entire market share, globally speaking, is less than 0.5%. However, things are changing in that part of the world. Russian construction of new data centres has been picking up over the last five years. Furthermore,...
More than a few eyebrows were raised earlier this year when hackers revealed they had breached the Ashley Madison adult dating site and stolen personal data relating to tens of millions of subscribers. Things were made worse when that data was finally dumped online a couple of weeks ago. The...