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A Surrey man has been jailed for 32 months after admitting to launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against an African telco. Daniel Kaye, 30, of Egham, told the Blackfriars Crown Court that back in 2016 he took a monthly salary from Liberian company Cellcom to carry out a sustained DDoS against their rival telco Lonestar. According to the National Crime Age...

Internet of Things (IoT) is now the number one target for hackers all over the world. This is according to a new report from F5 Labs, which claims hackers are shifting their focus from web and application services, as well as email servers. Most attacks are coming from Brazil (18 per cent of them), followed by China and Japan. On the receiving end is mostly Spain, who had su...

Immersive Labs, a cyber security training platform founded by a former GCHQ researcher, has raised $8m (£6.2m) in Series A funding led by Goldman Sachs. The Bristol-based startup was launched by James Hadley (pictured) in 2017 after he ran a cyber summer school for teenagers on behalf of the UK’s signals intelligence agency. Hadley had noticed that the most successful classe...

Despite the proliferation of cyber security products and services claiming to be driven by artificial intelligence, the application of the technology is being overlooked by research, a study shows Cyber physical systems, privacy, internet of things (IoT) devices and cryptography make up the bulk of cyber security research, a survey of 1,200 global research projects reveals. ...

In June, AT&T sold a large global data center portfolio to investor Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. The companies closed the $1.1 billion transaction last week, when Brookfield also announced the launch of a new company, called Evoque Data Center Solutions, which will provide colocation services out of the 31 facilities it gained through the deal. The transaction echoes ...

Amazon Web Services has been chosen as the cloud provider of a portal for the UK government which will enable government departments and local councils to procure goods and services online. The new government portal is being built by a small public sector-focused development team called The Dextrous Web, which - in consultation with the Cabinet Office’s procurement body, the...

Alibaba's cloud computing unit has opened a second data centre in Indonesia, doubling its local capacity and pushing its global coverage to 55 availability zones across 19 regions. The launch comes 10 months after the Chinese vendor announced its first site in the ASEAN market last March and is part of a network of eight international data centre regions in the Asia-Pacific,...

Equinix, Inc. the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that it has closed a transaction for the purchase of a commercial building at Vierenkamp 1, Hamburg, Germany, from Aspen REG 1. Management GmbH for $11 million (€9 million). Equinix will invest another $25 million (€22 million) to redevelop the space in phase one. The facility, which will be re...

Despite being embroiled in the midst of a trade war between China and the United States, Huawei is showing no signs of slowing down its innovation. On Tuesday the company revealed a new chipset for data centres purported to be more powerful and more efficient than its peers, and now the Chinese tech giant has unveiled its new data centre switch ‘built for the AI era’, the Cl...

GTT Communications, Inc. the leading cloud networking provider to multinational clients, announced this week that Robert Westervelt has been appointed senior vice president for channel sales for the Americas division. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Westervelt was vice president for channel sales for the East region. Mr. Westervelt will lead GTT’s indirect channel sales acros...