Monday: Ransomware warning from Italy, ban on fiber optic superstructure demanded

The Italian cyber security authority ACN warns of a current ransomware attack affecting thousands of servers worldwide. Not only in Italy, servers in other countries were also compromised. The Federal Association for Fiber Optic Connections is also sounding the alarm, but because of the increasing superstructure of networks, especially in large cities, by Telekom. The first politicians are calling for a legal ban. First of all, the country should be supplied with fiber optics across the board, which has priority according to the federal government’s gigabit strategy – the most important reports in a nutshell.

Thousands of servers around the world are target one Cyber ​​attack with ransomware become. This reports the Italian cyber security authority and warns that organizations should take measures to protect their systems. How exactly these protective measures should look like, however, remains unmentioned. It is also unclear which vulnerabilities be addressed specifically. It just means that one Software vulnerability abused become. Italian institutions in particular are affected, but also Servers in other countries: Italy’s cyber security agency warns of worldwide ransomware attack.

He rings an alarm of a different kind Federal Association of Fiber Optic Connections. In a fire letter to Digital Minister Wissing, he warns that Germany, due to the uncoordinated fiber optic expansion threatened to miss the relevant targets set by the federal government. According to this, half of the members of the association who are expanding fiber optics refer to one double wiring or corresponding plans of Deutsche Telekom in their respective network area. Such superstructure activities were observed in Cologne, near Augsburg and in Munich: Telekom is building over existing fiber optic networks, the association is calling for a ban.

For the Digitizing framed slides in magazines there are special scanners, but such devices are expensive and slow. Now there is a new development that makes the work much easier: The Github project Filmolino SlideScan is a device for fully automated scanning of slides in magazines using a modified slide projector and one digital camera. It controls the slide projector and the digital camera via one cable release or one Infrared remote. c’t photography recreated it and tried it out: Fully automatic scanning of slides with a modified slide projector and camera.

First is the cloud there, then the cloud is gone. And often just a bit of one or the other. The – renewed – reason for these fundamental considerations is the partial Azure outage on January 25, 2023, just after 9 a.m. The error was fixed after around 45 minutes. However, there was still until noon Impact on the Services. This failure showed one thing above all: Current SLA (Service Level Agreements). no good guarantees for customers. Medicine shows how we can think better, explains the comment on the cloud failure in MS: Is the patient already dead or just injured?

Launched on February 5, 1983 “The flying eye” in the cinema. The action movie at one armed high-tech helicopter wants before government surveillance to warn. In “Blue Thunder“(original title) Los Angeles helicopter cop Frank Murphy is invited to test a prototype: A flying electronics laboratory features an onboard cannon that moves in sync with the helmet, night vision, x-ray eyes, high-powered ears, whisper mode, access to computer databases, and a cell phone. Big Brother and his invasion of privacy is the leitmotif of the film: 40 years of Blue Thunder – The flying eye.

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