A new flaw has been discovered by security researchers that could enable hackers to install backdoors on the firmware of bare-metal cloud servers that stay active even when the customer using the hardware has been re-assigned elsewhere. Called “Cloudbourne”, the vulnerability was first discovered by researchers at the Eclypsium Research Team, who detailed their findings […]
Archives for 2019
Cisco and Telenor Group Extend Partnership To collaborate on Cloud, Security and Open vRAN for 5G
Barcelona – Mobile World Congress – February 27, 2019 – Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and Telenor Group CEO Sigve Brekke met today to further strengthen the companies’ strategic collaboration by signing a Joint Purpose Agreement 2.0. Together, Cisco and Telenor Group will expand their joint innovation across cybersecurity, cloud and the digital workplace, and willexplore Open Virtualized RAN […]
Quickbooks launches MTD suite for small businesses
Quickbooks has made its Making Tax Digital suite widely available for small businesses and accountants, which includes software that will allow users to continue to file VAT using spreadsheets. The updated tools will ensure that anyone filing a VAT return using the tools will be compliant with the government’s new digital tax legislation, set to […]
Sauce Labs doubles down on EU growth with Frankfurt data centre
Sauce Labs has launched a virtual data centre in Germany and expanded its London office to keep up with European data demands, the company has announced. It’s a reflection of the company’s success in the EMEA region and, after doubling its European workforce, it now needs office space to support its rapid growth. “Since establishing […]
‘Cloudborne’ IaaS Attack Allows Persistent Backdoors in the Cloud
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Linux security: Cmd provides visibility, control over user activity
There’s a new Linux security tool you should be aware of — Cmd (pronounced “see em dee”) dramatically modifies the kind of control that can be exercised over Linux users. It reaches way beyond the traditional configuration of user privileges and takes an active role in monitoring and controlling the commands that users are able to run […]
India will be the test ground for new features: Spotify India head
FILE- This March 20, 2018, file photo shows the Spotify app on an iPad in Baltimore. Music streaming service Spotify is buying podcast companies Gimlet and Anchor as it looks to take on Apple’s popular iTunes’ podcasting platform.Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) After a year long wait, Swedish music streaming major, Spotify finally launched in India, amid […]
Inmarsat and Microsoft team up on network-sharing deal
Inmarsat and Microsoft have announced a joint collaboration that will see the former’s customers transfer data collected via their IoT solutions to the latter’s Azure IoT platform. Businesses in the agriculture, mining, transportation, and logistics sectors will be able to connect the data they’ve collected with cloud-based apps to gain more insight into their customers, […]
Alibaba Cloud debuts new data intelligence tools
Alibaba Cloud has introduced a set of tools it claims will make it easier for businesses to take advantage of data intelligence and gain greater insight into the running of their business. Businesses in the retail, fin-tech, logistics, media and entertainment, digital branding, and marketing sectors are expected to be the primary beneficiaries of the […]
ICANN urges adopting DNSSEC now
Powerful malicious actors continue to be a substantial risk to key parts of the Internet and its Domain Name System security infrastructure, so much so that The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is calling for an intensified community effort to install stronger DNS security technology. Specifically ICANN is calling for full deployment of […]