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The fire at the OVH datacenter in Strasbourg also impacted the command and control infrastructure used by several nation-state APT groups and cybercrime gangs. OVH, one of the largest hosting providers in the world, has suffered this week a terrible fire that destroyed its data centers located in Strasbourg. The French plant in Strasbourg includes 4 data centers, SBG1, SBG2, SBG3, and SBG4 that were shut down due to the incident, and the fire started in SBG2…

Cyber-criminals’ illegal activities have been disrupted by a severe fire at the Strasbourg data centers of one of the largest web-hosting providers in the world.  The fire began at 00:47 on March 10 in a room of data center SBG2, which belongs to OVHcloud. SBG2 was completely wiped out in the blaze, which also destroyed four rooms of data center SBG1 and caused a shutdown of the servers in SBG3 and SBG4.  It took over 100 firefighters working…

What is probably the best open source password manager on the market has added a new feature that will make using the tool even better. Image: Jack Wallen The developers of the Bitwarden password manager are always looking to improve their software. When their PR guys reached out to me last week to let me know of a new feature, you can bet I was all ears. Said feature isn’t a deal maker or breaker,…

A lawsuit accusing Google of collecting data from users who are browsing the internet in “incognito mode” will go ahead. The suit, brought against the tech giant in June 2020, alleges that even when consumers turn off data collection in Chrome, their personal data is gathered by other Google tools. According to the complaint, “Google tracks and collects consumer browsing history and other web activity data no matter what safeguards consumers undertake to protect their data…

Leading information security event Infosecurity Europe will now take place July 13-15 2021 at London’s Olympia, organizer Reed Exhibitions has announced today (March 15). The news follows a statement made by the company on February 24 explaining that the event, originally due to take place June 8-10, would be delayed until later in the year due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic situation. Today’s announcement outlined that Reed Exhibitions will be taking all the appropriate steps…