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Why DNS protection should be the first step in hybrid cloud security
Securing today’s hybrid cloud environments is a formidable challenge. Cloud adoption is on the rise as businesses everywhere, across all sectors, digitalize, modernize and evolve. The hybrid cloud model has become the de facto standard used by nearly three-quarters of businesses. Hybrid cloud environments combine the use of public and…
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Startup claims to offer holy grail of remote connectivity — hybrid access that outperform VPN, SD-WAN and ZTNA solutions by 30x or more
A new start-up has came forward with quite a bold claim – its remote connectivity offering outperforms VPNs, SD-WAN, and ZTNA solutions, by at least 30 times. While it’s not something we could independently verify at this time, if the claim has any truth to it, it would be the…
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Google wants to offset its data center pollution using wind power
In an effort to become more sustainable, Google has confirmed its largest ever deal to secure offshore wind energy for its European data centers. The cloud computing giant’s power purchase agreements with CrossWind and Ecowende, which are joint ventures between Shell and Eneco, will support two new wind farms off…
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Google switches on its first Africa cloud region
In a significant move aimed at supporting and promoting digital transformation in Africa, Google Cloud has announced the operational readiness of a new cloud region placed in Johannesburg, South Africa – its first on the continent. The announcement explains how AWS high-performance, secure, and low-latency cloud services are now available…
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VPN users beware — security flaws are being exploited to spread dangerous malware
Users of Ivanti’s Connect Secure (ICS) virtual private network (VPN) devices beware – the solutions carry two high severity vulnerabilities that are being chained together to deliver the Silver malware. First things first – the two vulnerabilities being abused here are tracked as CVE-2023-46805, and CVE-2024-21887. The former carries a…
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Spreadsheet fanatic builds a CPU within Microsoft Excel that has a display but can’t run Excel or Doom — and no, it doesn’t work in the cloud just yet
Microsoft Excel is well known for its versatility (it can even run first person classic shooter Doom) – but who knew the spreadsheet software could also be used to build a functioning CPU? It might sound ridiculous, but that’s precisely what a YouTuber named Inkbox has done, as demonstrated in…
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