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GLASGOW, Scotland — When the House of Representatives passed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill late Friday night, it took the largest congressional action to confront climate change in U.S. history. The bill contains $150 billion for clean energy advancement and adaptation to the effects of climate change, surpassing the 2009 economic stimulus package, which spent $90 billion on clean energy development and deployment. The new package also includes $73 billion for modernizing the U.S…. Source link

Facebook’s (FB) week went from bad to worse Monday when the social networking giant’s apps went dark worldwide for roughly six hours. In a post written Monday afternoon, Facebook VP of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan blamed the outage on a configuration error on the “backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication.” That error, Janardhan writes, had a cascading effect on Facebook’s entire network, both… Source link

The Russian internet giant Yandex experienced an extreme Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for several days, in August and September. The attack recorded at about 22 million requests per second (RPS) is believed to be the largest DDoS attack in the history of the internet, according to the Russian publication Vedomosti. Cyber security company Cloudflare confirmed the attack adding that the worst volumetric DDoS attack it ever recorded was 17.2… Source link

Russian software giant Yandex confirmed at the end of last week that it succeeded in repelling a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took place last month and at the beginning of this month, claiming that it was the biggest attack of its kind in history. One of the products marketed by the company is a service for protection against such attacks.  According to an official statement by the company, the attack – in which the malicious actors tried to flood the computer system… Source link

The Russian tech giant Yandex announced this week that in August and September it was the victim of the internet’s largest-ever recorded distributed denial-of-service or DDoS attack, according to Reuters. This is an attack in which hackers try to flood a network with unusually high volumes of data traffic in order to paralyze it. The attack began in August and reached a record level on September 5. However, Yandex successfully defended against even that largest barrage.  “Our experts did… Source link

The Russian Internet giant Yandex says it repelled the largest DDoS (denial-of-service) attack in history. The cyberattack included more than 20 million requests per second (RPS), according to the company’s blog on the website Habr.  The source of the attack was a new botnet, which Yandex named “Meris.” Yandex observed signs of the appearance of the new botnet back in late June. The company estimates that “Meris” consists of between at least 56,000 infected devices, but says the… Source link

Russian internet giant Yandex has been targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that started last week and and it reportedly continues this week. A report in Russian media says that the assault is the largest in the short history of the Russian internet, the RuNet, and that it was confirmed by a U.S.-based company. RuNet is the Russian segment of the internet, created to function independently of the worldwide web. Its purpose is to maintain the unified… Source link

Battalion Chief Sergio Mora reacts as the Dixie Fire tears through Plumas County, Calif., on Wednesday. (Noah Berger/AP) Nichoel Farris had been living on an apple farm in Greenville, Calif., for four years with her husband, Paul. The farm, located in the High Sierra of Northern California, about 150 miles north of Sacramento, was where they grew sunflowers, raised chicks, rode horses and grew apples. Now all that’s left is a pile of ash and blackened tree trunks. The Dixie Fire, driven by… Source link

The Company’s Global Telesat Communications Unit Approved as an Alibaba Gold Supplier as it Expands Global Sales Activities AVENTURA, FL / ACCESSWIRE / July 13, 2021 / Orbsat Corp (NASDAQ:OSAT)(NASDAQ:OSATW) (“Orbsat” or “the Company”), a global provider of IoT and connectivity solutions through next-generation satellite technology, today announced that its Global Telesat Communications (GTC) unit has entered into an agreement with Alibaba.com, the B2B (Business-to-Business) e-commerce… Source link

Fresh coronavirus outbreaks in Southern China are threatening to create new bottlenecks at America’s largest port again, even as the recovery in Western economies help to dramatically reduce its inventory. In an interview with Yahoo Finance Live, Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka said he expected to see “a little bit of a lull” with roughly a third of its cargo coming in from the Pearl River Delta in the Guangdong Province. “What we’re seeing is that 50% of normal… Source link