Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackers Vast troves of highly sensitive police data are lying on Microsoft cloud platforms which an official UK security assessment deemed to be vulnerable to “compromise” by foreign actors and the US …
Three-storey GreenSquare datacentre in Hazelmere was to power cloud computing and the acceleration of AI Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A 15,000 sq metre datacentre near Perth will no longer go ahead after the developer withdrew plans amid community opposition over its …
ProPublica has a scoop : In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with a “lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall …
Encryption can protect data at rest and data in transit, but does nothing for data in use. What we have are secure enclaves. I’ve written about this before: Almost all cloud services have to perform some computation on our data. Even the simplest storage provider has code to …
The Washington Post is reporting that the UK government has served Apple with a “technical capability notice” as defined by the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, requiring it to break the Advanced Data Protection encryption in iCloud for the benefit of law enforcement. This is a big deal, and something …