The investment in Hekima is intended to help the company tackle the local scarcity of tech skills …read more Source:: ZDNet

Information for IO is hidden in the virtual stars. …read more Source:: CNet

The average number of days it takes for organisations infected with ransomware to restore networks is now up to over 16 days. …read more Source:: ZDNet

DirecTV is racing to move its Spaceway-1 satellite out of the geostationary arc after the 15-year-old satellite suffered a crippling battery malfunction that the company fears could cause it to explode. From a report: DirecTV told the U.S. Federal Communications Commission that it does not have time to deplete the remaining fuel on Spaceway-1 before…

Facebook, Amazon and Apple spent record amounts on lobbying in 2019, with Mark Zuckerberg’s social-media company leading the so-called FAANG companies in outlays aimed at influencing Washington, according to disclosures filed this week. From a report: Facebook shelled out $16.7 million last year, well above its 2018 total of $12.6 million, its disclosures show. Amazon…

Plus: Brit biz bloke splurged £40m on Autonomy High Court defence Ex-Cabinet minister David Davis has called for former Autonomy exec Mike Lynch’s potential US extradition to be halted – at least until judgment in the lengthy UK civil case brought against him by HPE.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Only up for five hours, but that’s plenty of time for the wrong person to spot it An AWS engineer reportedly published “personal identity documents and system credentials including passwords, AWS key pairs, and private keys” to a public GitHub repository by accident.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

A fair number of hackers reach that awkward age in their careers – too old for manual pick and place, but too young for a full-fledged PnP machine. The obvious solution is to build your own PnP, which can be as simple as putting a suction cup on the Z-axis of an old 3D-printer. Feeding…

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The critical flaw exists in Cisco’s administrative management tool, used with network security solutions like firewalls. …read more Source:: Threatpost