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Brit watchdog pushes to rein in Microsoft and AWS with ‘strategic market status’
Regulators around the globe pay attention as results of 21-month cloud probe published Britain's competition regulator says Microsoft and AWS are using their dominance to harm UK cloud customers and proposes to designate both with strategic market status (SMS) to take action against them.…
Users left scrambling for a plan B as Dropbox drops Dropbox Passwords
Read-only in weeks, deleted forever in months Dropbox has given users of its password manager until the end of October to extract their data before pulling the plug on the service.…
Minnesota governor calls in the troops after St Paul cyberattack
'This was a deliberate, coordinated, digital attack' Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has activated the state's National Guard and declared a state of emergency in response to a cyberattack on the city of Saint Paul.…
Palo Alto Networks inks $25b deal to buy identity-security shop CyberArk
The lure? Identity security and privileged access management tools to verify humans and... machines Palo Alto Networks will buy Israeli security biz CyberArk in a $25 billion cash-and-stock deal confirmed today.…
Ransomware gang sets deadline to leak 3.5 TB of Ingram Micro data
Distie insists global operations restored despite some websites only now coming back online The cybercriminals claiming responsibility for Ingram Micro's ransomware attack put a deadline on leaking its data nearly a month after the raid.…
CISA caves to Wyden, agrees to release US telco insecurity report – but won’t say when
The security nerds' equivalent of the Epstein files saga The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Tuesday finally agreed to make public an unclassified report from 2022 about American telecommunications networks' poor security practices.…
Raspberry Pi RP2350 A4 update fixes old bugs and dares you to break it again
5 V-tolerant GPIO opens the way to some intriguing retro-nerdery The Raspberry Pi team has released an update to the RP2350 microcontroller with bug fixes, hardening, and a GPIO tweak that will delight retro hardware enthusiasts.…
War Games: MoD asks soldiers with 1337 skillz to compete in esports
Troopers to swap radios for Turtle Beaches in preparation for ‘21st century challenges’ The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is doubling down on its endorsement of esports by tasking the British Esports Federation to establish a new tournament to upskill existing servicepeople in the digital skirmishes.…
Microsoft spotlights Apple bug patched in March as SharePoint exploits continue
Look over there! Amidst its own failure to fix a couple of bugs now under mass exploitation and being abused for espionage, data theft, and ransomware infections, Microsoft said Monday that it spotted a macOS vulnerability some months ago that could allow attackers to steal private data. Redmond…
Security pros are drowning in threat-intel data and it’s making everything more dangerous
Plus, 60% don't have enough analysts to make sense of it Too many threats, too much data, and too few skilled security analysts are making companies more vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to the IT and security leaders tasked with protecting these organizations from digital threats.…