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CDK Global cyberattack impacts thousands of US car dealerships

Car dealership software-as-a-service provider CDK Global was hit by a massive cyberattack, causing the company to shut down its systems and leaving clients unable to operate their business normally.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 19, 2024
- 01:58 PM
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Hosting firm's VMware ESXi servers hit by new SEXi ransomware

Chilean data center and hosting provider IxMetro Powerhost has suffered a cyberattack at the hands of a new ransomware gang known as SEXi, which encrypted the company's VMware ESXi servers and backups.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 03, 2024
- 05:58 PM
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Cloudflare Dashboard and APIs down after data center power outage

An ongoing Cloudflare outage has taken down many of its products, including the company's dashboard and related application programming interfaces (APIs) customers use to manage and read service configurations.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 02, 2023
- 12:13 PM
- 0
Cisco warns of bug that lets attackers break traffic encryption

Cisco warned customers today of a high-severity vulnerability impacting some data center switch models and allowing attackers to tamper with encrypted traffic.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 06, 2023
- 06:35 AM
- 4
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UK heat wave causes Google and Oracle cloud outages

An ongoing heatwave in the United Kingdom has led to Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud outages after cooling systems failed at the companies' data centers.
- Lawrence Abrams
- July 19, 2022
- 04:07 PM
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Hetzner lost customer data and gave 20€ as compensation

Hetzner Online GmbH, a German cloud services provider, told some customers this week that their data had been irreversibly lost and were provided a 20€ compensation in online credit.
- Bill Toulas
- April 14, 2022
- 10:12 AM
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Russia faces IT crisis with just two months of data storage left

Russia faces a critical IT storage crisis after Western cloud providers pulled out of the country, leaving Russia with only two more months before they run out of data storage.
- Bill Toulas
- March 15, 2022
- 12:52 PM
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Over 20,000 data center management systems exposed to hackers

Researchers have found over 20,000 instances of publicly exposed data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software that monitor devices, HVAC control systems, and power distribution units, which could be used for a range of catastrophic attacks.
- Bill Toulas
- January 29, 2022
- 11:08 AM
- 1
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- April 09, 2021
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VMware fixes authentication bypass in data center security software

VMware has addressed a critical vulnerability in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance that could allow attackers to bypass authentication after exploiting vulnerable servers.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 01, 2021
- 12:58 PM
- 0
OVH data center fire likely caused by faulty UPS power supply

OVH founder and chairman Octave Klaba has provided a plausible explanation for the fire that burned down OVH data centers in Strasbourg, France.
- Ax Sharma
- March 12, 2021
- 02:45 AM
- 0
OVH data center burns down knocking major sites offline

In a major unprecedented incident, data centers of OVH located in Strasbourg, France have been destroyed by fire. Customers are being advised by the company to enact their disaster recovery plans after the fire has rendered multiple data centers unserviceable, impacting websites around the world.
- Ax Sharma
- March 10, 2021
- 03:08 AM
- 5
Ransomware forces hosting provider Netgain to take down data centers

Cloud hosting and IT services provider Netgain was forced to take some of their data centers offline after suffering a ransomware attack in late November.
- Lawrence Abrams
- December 08, 2020
- 06:13 PM
- 0
Intel’s Ice Lake Xeon processors get new security features

Intel today revealed data security and privacy upgrades that will be introduced to the upcoming 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors code-named Ice Lake and built to power data center platforms.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 14, 2020
- 09:00 AM
- 1
Equinix data center giant hit by Netwalker Ransomware, $4.5M ransom

Data center and colocation giant Equinix has been hit with a Netwalker ransomware attack where threat actors are demanding $4.5 million for a decryptor and to prevent the release of stolen data.
- Lawrence Abrams
- September 10, 2020
- 11:32 AM
- 0
Cisco fixes severe flaws in data center management solution

Cisco today has released several security updates to address three critical authentication bypass, buffer overflow, and authorization bypass vulnerabilities found to affect Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) and multiple Cisco SD-WAN software products.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 29, 2020
- 01:46 PM
- 0
U.S. Data Center Provider Hit by Ransomware Attack

CyrusOne, a large data center provider in the U.S., announced on Thursday that some of its systems were affected by a ransomware attack.
- Ionut Ilascu
- December 06, 2019
- 06:02 AM
- 0
Chinese Cyber-Espionage Group Hacked Government Data Center

A Chinese-linked cyber-espionage unit has hacked a data center belonging to a Central Asian country and has embedded malicious code on government sites. The hack of the data center happened sometime in mid-November 2017, according to a report published by Kaspersky Lab earlier this week.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- June 15, 2018
- 10:00 AM
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