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The BBC posted an article yesterday stating a serious Amazon Web Services outage had been 'resolved' as Snapchat and banks were among sites adversely impacted for several hours during the day.
Quote: "Amazon ... said ... the issue "appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1"."
A contributor to the business section of the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning reported that Amazon, along with Microsoft and Google provide 70% of global cloud computing.
This prompted me to question which cloud services are used by our own company's supplier of web hosting and domain registrar services: Krystal Hosting.
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The BBC report that the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined outsourcing firm Capita £14m.
Reason: the personal data of 6.6 million people was stolen in a cyber-attack.
The ICO reportedly said Capita had "failed to ensure the security of processing of personal data which left it at significant risk".
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Read more: BBC report Capita fined £14m after millions had data stolen
Challenge: try running a business in the UK without submitting yourself to a Biometric Face Match aka Digital ID.
The UK Government recently announced that it intends to mandate a Digital ID for all adult UK citizens, without which they will not be able to work.
This is almost already the case for UK business owners.
Try opening a business bank account without a Biometric Face Match.
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We subscribe to The Hacker News Newsletter and recommend you do the same to keep abreast of news about cyber threats to your organsiation.
From time to time The Hacker News includes useful concise guides which address how to reduce the risk of succumbing to cyber attacks.
This week they published an article entitled "How one bad password ended a 158 year old business".
Its focus: how to build a more resilient defence against ransomware attacks.
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Read more: How one bad password ended a 158 year old business
If you have tried interacting with a chatbot then what Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo (our go to search engine) writes in his latest blog post will ring true.
He states "All the same privacy harms with online tracking are also present with AI, but worse.
Longer input invites more personal information to be provided, and people are starting to bare their souls to chatbots.
The conversational format can make it feel like you’re talking to a friend, a professional, or even a therapist.
While search queries reveal interests and personal problems, AI conversations take their specificity to another level and, in addition, reveal thought processes and communication styles, creating a much more comprehensive profile of your personality."
Gabriel cites several serious breaches by chatbots of Personal Data to underscore his concern:
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How often do you check the End of Life status of your phone and its operating system?
If you are like me then not very often.
But not any more because I have just received a wake up call whilst searching for a fix for my old smartphone.
With no quick fix on the horizon I decided to replace it.
Whereupon my use of a really useful phone spec comparison website indicated that not only my phone but also its operating system had recently reached End of Life.
Meaning: no more security updates for either!
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Read more: How often do you check the End of Life status of your phone and its operating system?
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