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Thomas Kurian’s arrival at Google Cloud in early 2019 after more than 22 years at Oracle marked a significant shift in Google’s thinking, putting an emphasis on expanding its cloud’s business use by enterprises as the key to making up ground on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure in the booming global cloud market. Google Cloud has closely followed that enterprise drumbeat over the past two-plus years, building out its infrastructure, extending its each from the cloud… Source link

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan could make terrorist attacks inside the U.S. and abroad more likely, according to an intelligence report distributed yesterday to government and law enforcement agencies. “We assess domestic and foreign violent extremists probably are attempting to exploit the US withdrawal from and deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan to inspire attacks and recruit like-minded extremists online,” reads the Department of Homeland Security report, dated Aug…. Source link

Ransomware cyberattacks have skyrocketed, and no part of the economy is safe. From infrastructure companies like Colonial Pipeline to meat producers like JBS to a huge attack linked to Russia just over the Fourth of July weekend, the attacks have escalated. According to George Kurtz, CEO of cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike (CRWD), the company is seeing a “massive” increase in ransomware attacks. And they’re targeting everything from private businesses to government entities. “Ransomware… Source link

Hate crimes against Asian Americans have increased within the year in the United States and the NBA community is condemning the racist attacks. There’s one important figure who is speaking out. Rich Cho broke racial barriers in 2010 when he was named the general manager of the Portland Trail Blazers, the first Asian American to be hired in that role in the NBA. “The past year has been such a sobering time in the area of racial injustice, particularly as these issues affect the Black… Source link

The U.S. government is acknowledging for the first time that right-wing extremists were responsible for the majority of fatal domestic terrorist attacks last year, according to an internal report circulated by the Department of Homeland Security last week and obtained by Yahoo News. A review of last year’s domestic terrorist incidents by a DHS fusion center — which shares threat-related information between federal, state and local partners — found that although civil unrest and… Source link

After falling 16 votes shy of Cooperstown in his ninth year on the ballot, controversial pitcher Curt Schilling is requesting his name be removed from Hall of Fame consideration and lashing out at various people involved in the process. Shortly after this year’s Hall of Fame tallies were announced Tuesday and Schilling finished at 71.1 percent, below the necessary 75 percent, he published a letter to the Hall of Fame on his Facebook page. In it, he took aim at fellow candidates Barry Bonds… Source link

ATLANTA — Just two days before the Georgia runoffs that will determine the leadership of the Senate and one day before a rally on behalf of the Republican candidates, President Trump has continued to unload on the GOP officials leading the state. In an extraordinary development, Trump attempted to cajole Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, according to the Washington Post, which published audio of their call on Sunday. “So look. All I want to do is this. I just want… Source link

An ongoing malware campaign is blasting the Internet with malware that neuters the security of Web browsers, adds malicious browser extensions, and makes other changes to users’ computers, Microsoft said on Thursday. Adrozek, as the software maker has dubbed the malware family, relies on a sprawling distribution network comprising 159 unique domains with each one hosting an average of 17,300 unique URLs. The URLs, in turn, host an average… Source link

A high school football player in Texas was escorted from the game by police on Thursday. (Ben Hasty/Reading Eagle via Getty Images, file) A high-stakes Texas high school football game turned ugly on Thursday when a defensive lineman attacked an official after being ejected from the game. Edinburg High School took on PSJA High School with a berth in the state playoffs on the line. The Monitor’s Andrew McCulloch was on the scene to cover the game and documented the attack. During the first… Source link

By Jessica Davis November 23, 2020 – Two new phishing campaigns have been spotted in the wild using legitimate Google services and social engineering in an effort to appear as legitimate emails and are capable of bypassing security measures, according to reports from Microsoft and Armorblox. For the first campaign, Microsoft took to Twitter to warn Office 365 users that hackers were targeting enterprises… Source link