UniCredit was also hit with hacking incidents in September-October 2016 and June-July 2017. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Looks like some security staff were asleep at the switch Amazon has still not provided any useful information or insights into the DDoS attack that took down swathes of websites last week, so let’s turn to others that were watching.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

We’re unlocking productivity! Microsoft has defended a policy decision for its “Power platform” – part of Office 365 – to let end users bypass Office 365 admins and make their own licence purchases.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Microsoft officials said the company’s Azure Sphere microcontroller (MCU) and associated cloud security service will be generally available in February 2020. From a report: Microsoft also introduced new branding today for the ThreadX RTOS technology it acquired when it bought Express Logic in April 2019. Going forward, this product will be known as Azure RTOS….

White-hat hackers will now have the chance to win $20,000 for sniffing out remote code-execution flaws in industrial control systems. …read more Source:: Threatpost

With two months of 2019 still to go, Indian tech startups are already having their best year as a record amount of capital flows into the local ecosystem in a major rebound since the darkened funding environment of 2016. From a report: The unlisted tech startups in India have raised $11.3 billion this year, a…

Hayi wena! Jozi officials claim they’ll have 80% of systems back online as deadline expires Several hours past the payment deadline, Johannesburg has vowed not to give in to criminal hackers who demanded £29,000 (4 bitcoins) not to publish its data, four days after the South African city shut down its public sector networks in…

The New York Times: The letter was aimed at Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, and his top lieutenants. It decried the social network’s recent decision to let politicians post any claims they wanted — even false ones — in ads on the site. It asked Facebook’s leaders to rethink the stance. Facebook’s position on political…

The reboot keeps multiple elements of the 2004 original. …read more Source:: CNet

The database was open for approximately one week before the problem was discovered. …read more Source:: DarkReading