Month: November 2016
Mirai botnet attacks 900,000 German broadband routers
Windows 10 Edge security easily bypassed through protocols
Software-defined storage is the answer to vendor lock-in, says IT chief
Software-defined storage is one method of avoiding vendor lock-in, according to an IT chief from the charity sector. The view emerged from a recent IT Leaders Forum from V3's sister site Computing on...
Surrey County Council extends BT PSN contract for two years
Ransomware attack demands $70,000 from San Francisco subway
San Francisco's Muni subway was unable to take payments from travellers over the weekend after ransomware infected the network, costing the city thousands in lost revenues. According to Motherboard, the...
Snoopers’ Charter backlash will see repeal of law discussed in parliament
Over 120,000 people have signed a petition to request the repeal of the Investigatory Powers Bill (IP Bill) that is set to become law in the coming months. The Open Rights Group (ORG), which organised...
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Microsoft Azure bug put Red Hat instances at risk
A flaw in Microsoft's Azure cloud platform could have been exploited by an attacker to gain admin rights to instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and storage accounts hosted on Azure. The vulnerability...