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A poultry farm in northern England has been fined after a computer glitch caused tens of thousands of chickens to overheat and die.  The tragic incident at Hose Lodge Farm in Colston Bassett, Nottinghamshire, was caused by a “computer malfunction” in a broiler shed ventilation system on a warm spring day. Around 50,000 chickens were inside the shed on May 26 2020 when inlets on the side of the building closed for a scheduled rest period….

As the value and business criticality of data increases, so do the challenges of backup, recovery, and data management. These challenges are exacerbated by exploding data growth, increasing SLA requirements, and an evolving threat and compliance landscape. Although hybrid cloud environments provide businesses with greater agility, protecting and managing apps and data across the core data center, private cloud, and public cloud can prove increasingly complex and costly.  Many IT organizations that have cobbled together…

auxmoney began as a peer-to-peer lender in 2007, with the mission of improving access to credit and promoting financial inclusion. Right from the start, auxmoney leveraged cloud-enabled analytics for its unique risk models and digital processes to further its mission. This approach has seen auxmoney becoming Europe’s largest credit marketplace and leading digital-lending platform for consumer credit in just 15 years.   Its success is one of many instances illustrating how the financial services industry is…

Two partners in a San Francisco-based cryptocurrency trading fund have been charged with fraud after allegedly misrepresenting the fund’s technological capabilities and investment practices. San Francisco resident Japheth Dillman and 42-year-old David Mata, of Spokane Washington, both former general partners of Block Bits Fund I, LP, are accused of bending the truth to fraudulently obtain $960K from approximately 22 investors from at least June 2017 to July 2018. Dillman, founder and managing director of Block Bits Capital, LLC,…

Business appetite for cloud continues unabated, with most companies now relying on multiple clouds. At midpoint 2021, 73% of surveyed enterprises said they were using two public clouds, and 26% were using three or more. But multi-cloud for most means managing public cloud consumption along with a mix that can include private clouds, on-premises assets, and edge clouds. Organizations currently leveraging multi-cloud reported the following benefits from their most recent digital initiative: 42% faster time…

There is an erroneous assumption made by many of us that cybercrime is something that occurs in the shadows, that it is anonymous, perhaps only discussed in the far reaches of the deep web. However, there is more and more evidence coming to light of cybercriminals brazenly advertising their wares. Most notably, we have seen increased internet searches for the term RaaS (Ransomware as a Service). Think of this as an affiliate program, where skilled…

There is an erroneous assumption made by many of us that cybercrime is something that occurs in the shadows, that it is anonymous, perhaps only discussed in the far reaches of the deep web. However, there is more and more evidence coming to light of cybercriminals brazenly advertising their wares. Most notably, we have seen increased internet searches for the term RaaS (Ransomware as a Service). Think of this as an affiliate program, where skilled…