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One in six UK households struggles to afford broadband, a poll by Citizens Advice found. Source:: BBC News – Technology

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Timestream can now be used for workloads that are subject to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA),… Read More »Amazon Timestream can now be used for workloads subject to HIPAA, ISO, and PCI DSS

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now enables you to assign a configuration set to an email identity, such as a specific email domain or… Read More »Amazon SES now lets you assign a configuration set to an email identity

From the ObamaPad to Joe Biden’s Apple Watch and Peloton, being president can be a tech challenge. Source:: BBC News – Technology

Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now available in the Africa… Read More »Amazon FSx is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions

U.S. and Bulgarian authorities this week seized the darkweb site used by the NetWalker ransomware cybercrime group to publish data stolen from its victims. In… Read More »Arrest, Seizures Tied to Netwalker Ransomware

Starting today, AWS CodePipeline is now available in the Europe South (Milan) Region. Source:: Amazon AWS

Families loaded up on the latest technology and growth in China rose. Source:: BBC News – Technology

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer now analyzes AWS Secrets Manager resource-based policies to help you discover secrets that can be accessed publicly… Read More »Discover, review, and remediate unintended access to Secrets Manager secrets using IAM Access Analyzer

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports encryption of data at rest and node-to-node encryption on existing domains, enabling organizations hosting sensitive workloads to meet stringent security… Read More »Amazon Elasticsearch Service extends encryption at rest and node-to-node encryption to existing domains

Linux users should immediately patch a serious vulnerability to the sudo command that, if exploited, can allow unprivileged users gain root privileges on the host… Read More »Serious 10-year-old flaw in Linux sudo command; a new version patches it

AWS Security Hub is now integrated with Cloud Storage Security: Antivirus for Amazon S3. Cloud Storage Security uses the AWS Security Finding Format (ASFF) to… Read More »AWS Security Hub adds 1 new integration globally and adds 5 integrations to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Starting today, you can launch Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server on Amazon EC2 R5d and Amazon EC2 M5d instance types with… Read More »Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports tempdb on local instance store with R5d and M5d instance types

Police from the UK, EU, and North America take down a notorious cyber-crime web. Source:: BBC News – Technology

Mozilla this week upgraded Firefox to version 85, adding to its overarching emphasis on privacy by isolating supercookies that some sites rely on to track… Read More »What’s in the latest Firefox upgrade? New defense against supercookies

Today, law enforcement agencies from around the world successfully wrested control of the Emotet botnet away from its operators. They also took new unprecedented steps… Read More »Emotet Botnet Takedown | Avast

Today, law enforcement agencies from around the world successfully wrested control of the Emotet botnet away from its operators. They also took new unprecedented steps… Read More »Emotet Botnet Takedown | Avast

Cloudflare’s network keeps growing, and that growth doesn’t just come from building new data centers in new cities. We’re also upgrading the capacity of existing… Read More »Automating data center expansions with Airflow

Smart home technology is changing our homes. Today, we live side by side with no shortage of smart devices which make our daily lives easier in various… Read More »Reinforcing Smart Home Security | Avast

Smart home technology is changing our homes. Today, we live side by side with no shortage of smart devices which make our daily lives easier in various… Read More »Reinforcing Smart Home Security | Avast