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WEBIBM and Oracle to support 280,000 users after winning mega ERP govt tech contract. Pair of industry giants set to take on £711M upgrade supporting four UK departments. Public Sector 3 days | 23.
Twitter leak: 200m+ account database now free to download
WEBThu 5 Jan 2023 // 21:30 UTC. Updated More than 200 million Twitter users' information is now available for anyone to download for free. This latest data dump, which includes account names, handles, creation dates, follower counts, and email addresses, turns out to the be same — albeit cleaned up — leak reported last month that affected more ...
BOFH Archive - The Register
WEBEpisode 1 Er, I mean, droid. In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the OFFICE OF NEVERMORE. BOFH 22 Jan 2021 | 75. BOFH: Time for the MMOCC. You know, the Massively Moronic Online Christmas Call. Episode 10 This year, starring an utterly, er, empowering personal presence guru.
Unauthorized access at HealthEquity affects 4.3M people
WEBConnor Jones. Mon 29 Jul 2024 // 13:45 UTC. HealthEquity, a US fintech firm for the healthcare sector, admits that a "data security event" it discovered at the end of June hit the data of a substantial 4.3 million individuals. Stolen details include addresses, telephone numbers and payment data. The incident began in March but was only detected ...
AWS hits $100 billion revenue run rate, expands margins
WEBMay 1, 2024 · The CEO also noted that 85 percent of current IT spend is for on-prem tech. So AWS has plenty of room for growth even as it approaches $100 billion annual revenue. For perspective, Dell's full year revenue for FY24 was $88.4 billion – down from $102.3 billion the year before. Even at 17 percent growth, AWS is doing far better.
Microsoft patches CVE-2024-38063 IPv6 RCE vulnerability
WEBAug 14, 2024 · Six ransomware gangs behind over 50% of 2024 attacks. Microsoft listed four vulnerabilities as publicly disclosed, albeit not yet exploited, so maybe put these high on your to-patch list: CVE-2024-38200 – a Microsoft Office Spoofing Vulnerability with a 6.5 CVSS rating. CVE-2024-38199 – a Windows Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Service RCE ...
BT puts old phone books online - The Register
WEBNov 29, 2007 · BT is putting its entire archive of old phone books online for genealogists, or anyone else, to browse, and a commercial genealogy company is opening up access to all UK burial records since 1538. The phone books date back to 1880 and contain 280 million names. They can be used to track down relatives, but you can also use the service to find ...
FCC finally set to do something about SS7 vulnerabilities
WEBApr 2, 2024 · The FCC appears to finally be stepping up efforts to secure decades-old flaws in American telephone networks that are allegedly being used by foreign governments and surveillance outfits to remotely spy on and monitor wireless devices. At issue are the Signaling System Number 7 (SS7) and Diameter protocols, which are …
Google's 'Be Evil' business transformation is complete
WEBMon 1 Nov 2021 // 09:27 UTC. Opinion Ten days ago, a New York judge revealed the full prosecution filings in a multi-state antitrust lawsuit against Google – one of many against the company, and of many more against the ad tech giants. There's too much to digest in a handful of days, and early headlines have concentrated on the claims that ...
About that misguided call for a 7-Zip boycott • The Register
WEBJun 27, 2022 · Analysis A blog post calling for a boycott of the well-known 7-Zip compression app is attracting some discussion on Reddit. However, it seems criticism for Igor Pavlov and his FOSS compression app 7-Zip is somewhat overblown and may reflect the anti-Russian sentiment of the times. 7-Zip has been around since 1999 and during that two-decade span ...