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Cloud storage provider Box is down in a 'critical' outage, preventing customers from accessing their files. The outage started at approximately 9 AM ET, with the company stating that it is a critical outage impacting logins, uploads, downloads, and API calls.
"Multi-cloud computing offers huge benefits but makes IT far more complex," said Bernie Hoecker, partner, Enterprise Cloud Transformation leader, ISG. "Enterprises that have made the leap are adopting increasingly powerful tools to manage that complexity." Cloud observability platforms are increasingly essential as multi-cloud complexity increases, the report says.
See multiple layering of clouds in a blue sky can mean you are in line to receive eternal happiness. If only that was true in the complex world of IT, where multi-cloud compute environments are rapidly becoming the norm.
An ex-First Republic Bank cloud engineer was sentenced to two years in prison for causing more than $220,000 in damage to his former employer's computer network after allegedly using his company-issued laptop to watch pornography. Miklos Daniel Brody, 38, of San Francisco, pleaded guilty in April to two charges of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act after obtaining information from and intentionally damaging a protected computer, and one charge of making false statements to a government agency.
Miklos Daniel Brody, a cloud engineer, was sentenced to two years in prison and a restitution of $529,000 for wiping the code repositories of his former employer in retaliation for being fired by the company. First Republic Bank was a commercial bank in the U.S., employing over seven thousand people and having an annual revenue of $6.75 billion.
Webinar In the natural world, there are ten different kinds of cloud - a rare simplicity in meteorological terms. Multi-cloud environments in particular spawn a lot of complexity, and their continuous evolution can also create cyber security blind spots.
Australia is building a top-secret cloud to host intelligence data and share it with the US and UK, which have their own clouds built for the same purpose. The three clouds were discussed on Monday by Andrew Shearer, Australia's director-general of national intelligence, at an event hosted by the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, DC. "We are working very hard on a top-secret cloud initiative," Shearer told the event, adding that it will interoperate with similar infrastructure already operated by the US and UK, and mean sensitive data can be shared "Near instantaneously."
Threat actors can take advantage of Amazon Web Services Security Token Service (AWS STS) as a way to infiltrate cloud accounts and conduct follow-on attacks. The service enables threat actors to...
Nearly all organizations rely on the cloud to store sensitive data and run critical systems. 93% agree that zero-trust segmentation is essential to their cloud security strategy.
A ransomware infection at a cloud IT provider has disrupted services for 60 or so credit unions across the US, all of which were relying on the attacked vendor. This is according to the National Credit Union Administration, which on Friday told The Register it is fire-fighting the situation with the credit unions downed this week by the intrusion.