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Revisiting *that* Google outage: Fire, flooding, (then running out of water) and a “regional Spanner” failure

Fire-fighting was not helped by Global Switch’s fire suppression system “running out of water”. The incident also introduced water and soot contamination. Google Cloud’s affected racks had to be taken apart, thoroughly cleaned and reassembled before they could be restarted.

Teams bundling competition European commission

Slack had alleged that Microsoft “created a weak, copycat product and tied it to their dominant Office product, force installing it and blocking its removal"

New SEC cybersecurity rules include disclosure details on incidents, board of directors

The US Chamber of Commerce had fumed that the SEC’s “unprecedented micromanagement of companies’ cybersecurity programs is misguided"

british government chief data officer cddo cabinet office

Role up your sleeves, gird your loins, dust off those "outstanding influencing, negotiating and conflict resolution skills"

apple zero day reported by kaspersky

"Operation Triangulation" continues after the Russian security firm was hacked by a sophisticated adversary using a zero-click iOS chain...

HSBC breached this banking rule 12,200 times. Regulators sigh wearily

"HSBC’s processes, systems and staff were not capable of detecting and reporting these breaches until December 2022. The inability for HSBC to determine the scale of these breaches due to the inadequacy of its systems and processes is a further concern."

Microsoft's 2023 earnings in brief

$10.7 billion in Q4 CapEx was "both the data centers… plus CPUs and GPUs and networking equipment" with spending to accelerate, said CFO Amy Hood.

Thales' $3.6 billion buyout of Imperva is timely...

Imperva, generating ~$500 million in revenues, has suffered from executive churn in recent years that has caused some “adverse impact on Imperva’s roadmap execution."

NetScaler vulnerability, CVE-2023-3519 IOCs

Attackers dropped a webshell, collected and exfiltrated Active Directory data, then ran into some healthy obstacles...

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