Austria’s Ministry of Economy kicks out Microsoft, moving 1,200 staff to Nextcloud in 4 months 🕒

EU-based cloud ensures GDPR & NIS2 compliance 🇪🇺
Hybrid setup keeps Teams only for external use; all internal collaboration now on Nextcloud 🔒
Smooth rollout earns positive employee feedback 👍

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#TechNews #OpenSource #Privacy #Cloud #DataSovereignty #Nextcloud #EU #FOSS #CyberSecurity #IT #Government #Software #Innovation #Digital #Security #Linux

Good News! Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud

The BMWET migrates 1,200 employees to sovereign cloud in just four months.

^{Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)}

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#OpenAI Signs $38 Billion #Cloud Computing Deal With #Amazon

After signing agreements to use computing power from #Nvidia, #AMD & #Oracle, OpenAI is teaming up with the world’s largest cloud computing company.

#tech #AI #law #antitrust #technocracy #plutocracy
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Apple Siri lauscht dauerhaft. Ist das neu? Nein.

Apple ist eine US-Firma wie alle anderen. Apples Sprachassistentin Siri ist ein Sprachassistent wie alle anderen. Wie alle anderen lauscht Siri dauerhaft (und nicht nur auf das Codewort), und wie alle anderen hat Apple das lange abgestritten. Aber auch hier beruht die viel gerühmte "KI" darauf, dass Menschen tausende Mitschnitte auswerten. Auf der Basis der Aussagen eines Whistleblowers wurde in Frankreich eine Klage gegen Apple wegen Verletzung der Privatsphäre eingereicht. Jetzt ermittelt die Staatsanwaltschaft Paris, und zwar die Abteilung Cyber-Kriminalität

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#Allgemein #Empfehlung #Hintergrund #Mobilfunk #Warnung #apple #closedsource #cloud #KI #privacy #privatsphäre #spionage #UnplugTrump #verbraucherschutz

With the AWS outage, now is a good time to re-read The Eternal Mainframe

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#aws #outage #cloud

The internet was initially designed to be fault tolerant and resilient. Even if one route was down, a package should be able to find another way to it's destination, that's what it was designed for. And it worked, because the internet is decentral.

With the advent of the cloud, everything should have become even more reliable. No more outages, because it's in the the cloud and cloud is always better than on prem.

Well, this morning I figured out that some of our communication platforms were not working as expected. Also some other SAAS solutions we are using had issues. And now it turns out that there is a global outage of AWS.

Can it really be a good option, when everything in the world relies on a handful of central cloud service providers? I doubt it...

But this gives us a first taste of what happens, when we only rely on a few central providers or providers all based in one country.

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#cloud #aws #outage

Amazon Web Services: Global Outage on Monday Morning

Various internet services were experiencing outages. This was due to disruptions in Amazon Web Services cloud services.

^{Dirk Knop (heise online)}

The DOJ just seized $15B from a “pig butchering” 🐷 scam so large it reads like fiction. But the worst part isn’t the money — it’s that much of it ran on forced labor. People are trafficked into compounds, running fake romances to scam others online. What’s striking is the scale: well-educated professionals lost life savings to criminals who themselves were victims. It’s a grim feedback loop of exploitation, loneliness, and tech-enabled deceit.

⚠️ $15B seized from crypto scam
💔 Forced labor behind the fraud
🔐 Victims on both sides of the screen
🌍 FBI: “Human suffering” at global scale

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#Cybercrime #HumanTrafficking #OnlineSafety #Fraud #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity #RomanceScam #PigButchering

Feds seize $15 billion from alleged forced labor scam built on “human suffering”

Scams like this one net billions from well-educated victims.

^{Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)}

F5 says nation-state hackers breached its systems and stole BIG-IP source code and vulnerability data. That’s as serious as it sounds. Even though F5 says there’s no evidence of exploitation, this is a goldmine for anyone looking to weaponize zero-days or craft supply chain attacks. The company brought in Mandiant and CrowdStrike, rotated creds, hardened access controls, and says the threat is contained — but this one will ripple far and wide.

TL;DR
⚠️ Source code and vuln info stolen
🧠 Long-term access in dev environment
🔐 No customer data compromised
🧩 Zero-day risk still on the table

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#cybersecurity #breach #threatintel #infosec #security #privacy #cloud

F5 Breach Exposes BIG-IP Source Code — Nation-State Hackers Behind Massive Intrusion

F5 confirms nation-state breach exposing BIG-IP source code and vulnerabilities; containment completed, customers urged to update.

^{The Hacker News}