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Starting today, you can package, encrypt, and originate on demand video using AWS Elemental MediaPackage. The same just-in-time packaging features that you use for live channels are now available for video on demand (VOD) content. This means you can package file-based video and live video to multiple distribution formats and protect content with multiple digital …

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Photo by Serge Kutuzov / Unsplash Are you based in Moscow? Cloudflare is partnering with Yandex to produce a meetup this month in Yandex’s Moscow headquarters. We would love to invite you to join us to learn about the newest in the Internet industry. You’ll join Cloudflare’s users, stakeholders from the tech community, and Engineers …

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Canada is not Google’s lab rat, say those protesting plans to build a smart city in Toronto. Source:: BBC News – Technology

This week we saw mostly new variant of existing ransomware being released and nothing particular ground breaking released. Of particular interest was a story released by ProPublica about how ransomware recovery companies just pay the ransomware developers rather than actually decrypting your files using their own in-house technology. […] Source:: BleepingComputer

Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 announced the idle disconnect timeout feature. With this feature, you can automatically disconnect an idle user after a configurable period of time, ensuring your streaming instances are being actively used. Your user will receive a notification informing them if they are about to be disconnected due to inactivity. If your user …

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Sophos is reporting that if their business products are installed on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, installing the May 2019 Patch Tuesday updates may cause Windows to hang on the update screen showing “Configuring 30%”. […] Source:: BleepingComputer

Amazon GuardDuty adds two new threat detections. These new detections represent the latest in a continuously growing library of fully managed threat detections available for customers who enable Amazon GuardDuty in their AWS accounts. With 25 added since launch, Amazon GuardDuty now supports 54 active finding types. Source:: Amazon AWS

Microsoft says that a known issue will block Windows 10 from booting after trying to restore the system to a restore point created before installing a Windows 10 update. […] Source:: BleepingComputer

Today, AWS added a third Availability Zone (AZ) to the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region to support the high demand of our growing Korean customer base. Source:: Amazon AWS

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB application code, drivers, and tools that you do today to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB and enjoy improved performance, scalability, and availability without having to …

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports R5 instances in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland) Read More »

TeamViewer confirmed today that it has been the victim of a cyber attack which was discovered during the autumn of 2016, with a cyberespionage group of Chinese origins that dropped the Winnti backdoor possibly being the one which orchestrated the attack. […] Source:: BleepingComputer

The German software company behind TeamViewer, one of the most popular software in the world that allows users to access and share their desktops remotely, was reportedly compromised in 2016, the German newspaper Der Spiegel revealed today. TeamViewer is popular remote-support software that allows you to securely share your desktop or take full control of …

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Europol takes down cybercrime supermarket In a joint effort by six countries, Europol led a complicated international operation to take down the GozNym malware cybercriminal network. The network preyed on over 40,000 victims from whom it attempted to steal a collective $100M. A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh indicted ten members of the criminal network …

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Windows updates released this month are causing some GOV.UK sites to become unreachable due to the GOV.UK TLD being added to Microsoft’s HSTS preload list. This causes Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer to only connect via HTTPS, which some of GOV.UK the sites do not support, and thus making them unreachable. […] Source:: BleepingComputer

Cisco upgraded three remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities impacting the web management interfaces to critical severity with a CVSS base score of 9.8 after initially rating them as high with a base score of 8.8 when the advisories were first published on May 15. […] Source:: BleepingComputer

It’s Friday, and the Humble Store’s offering some dirt-cheap gaming gratification to kick off the weekend. The Humble Lego Games Bundle includes a total of eight games available as Steam codes, and paying just $12 or more unlocks every one. Don’t delay, though: This Humble Bundle expires on Tuesday, and a portion of the proceeds …

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Newsbeat is one of the first to get a look at the newly announced Minecraft augmented reality game Source:: BBC News – Technology

JavaScript Cold starts The performance of applications on the web platform is becoming increasingly bottlenecked by the startup (load) time. Large amounts of JavaScript code are required to create rich web experiences that we’ve become used to. When we look at the total size of JavaScript requested on mobile devices from HTTPArchive, we see that …

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US prosecutors claim a “deceptive” scheme was used to take control of valuable net addresses. Source:: BBC News – Technology

Over 12,000 unsecured MongoDB databases have been deleted over the last three weeks, with only a message left behind asking the owners of the databases to contact the cyber-extortionists to have the data restored. […] Source:: BleepingComputer