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Coinbase erroneously reported 2FA changes to 125,000 customers
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Coinbase erroneously reported 2FA changes to 125,000 customers

Enlarge / On Friday afternoon, Coinbase sent email and SMS text messages to 125,000 customers, erroneously telling them that their 2FA settings had been changed. (credit: SOPA Images) Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase sent an automated message to a large number of its customers on Friday, saying “your 2-step verification settings have been changed.” Unfortunately, the message...

Not enough backup power: AT&T and T-Mobile suffer big outages in Louisiana
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Not enough backup power: AT&T and T-Mobile suffer big outages in Louisiana

Enlarge / LaPlace, Louisiana: Jacqueline Smith waits with her mother Lucille Matthew for transportation after they were rescued from their flooded neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida on August 30, 2021. (credit: Getty Images | Scott Olson) AT&T today said that only 60 percent of its network in Louisiana is working as Hurricane Ida...

A bad solar storm could cause an “Internet apocalypse”
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A bad solar storm could cause an “Internet apocalypse”

Enlarge / Even if the power comes back after the next big solar storm, the Internet may not. (credit: Jean Claude Moschetti | REA | REDUX) Scientists have known for decades that an extreme solar storm, or coronal mass ejection, could damage electrical grids and potentially cause prolonged blackouts. The repercussions would be felt everywhere...

“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure
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“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure

Enlarge / Cosmos DB is a managed database service offering—including both relational and noSQL data structures—belonging to Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure. (credit: Microsoft) Cloud security vendor Wiz announced yesterday that it found a vulnerability in Microsoft Azure’s managed database service, Cosmos DB, that granted read/write access for every database on the service to any attacker...