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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...

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Need to get root on a Windows box? Plug in a Razer gaming mouse

Enlarge (credit: Razer) This weekend, security researcher jonhat disclosed a long-standing security bug in the Synapse software associated with Razer gaming mice. During software installation, the wizard produces a clickable link to the location where the software will be installed. Clicking that link opens a File Explorer window to the proposed location—but that File Explorer spawns...