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| | | | | Garmin Begins Recovery From Ransomware Attack | | BBC | The American GPS and fitness-tracker company Garmin is dealing with the aftermath of a ransomware attack, the BBC has confirmed. Owners of its products had been unable to use its services since Thursday. However, some of its online tools are now being provided in a "limited" state, according to its online dashboard. | | Microsoft Will Pitch Virtualized Windows-as-a-Subscription Service | | Computerworld | According to a job opening posted by Microsoft last month, the service will "change the way millions of enterprises consume Windows Desktops and applications." ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley first reported on the job listing and its likely implications. | | Google Sued by ACCC for Expanded Personal Data Use Without Consent | | Neowin | The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has taken legal action against the tech giant Google over the allegation that the company failed to properly inform the customers on how their data is being used and did not get the consent of customers when expanding its personal data use and privacy policy. | | FBI Warns of New DDoS Attack Vectors: CoAP, WS-DD, ARMS, and Jenkins | | ZDNet | The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent an alert last week warning about the discovery of new network protocols that have been abused to launch large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The alert lists three network protocols and a web application as newly discovered DDoS attack vectors. |
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| | | AWS EBS Volumes Aren’t Safe from Failure, Backup to S3 | | CloudSavvy IT | EBS is a block storage service offered by AWS. If you’re running an EC2 instance, you’re definitely using it, as it serves as the storage disk for your server. However, it’s not safe from failures, and you should still do regular backups. | | 5 Things DevOps Teams Must Do to Support Remote Workers | | ITProToday | DevOps, which originated in the late 2000s, is by now a mature and established discipline. It’s no longer evolving as rapidly as it did in its early years. Yet there is one force that is likely to drive a new round of innovation among DevOps practitioners: The need to provide IT support and servers to remote workers. |
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| | | New Device Management API Available in Beta | | G Suite Updates | Google is launching a beta for a new API to manage company-owned and personal mobile devices and desktop devices. It will work for devices managed via fundamental management, endpoint verification, Drive File Steam, and enhanced desktop security for Windows. |
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