Green MSP calls on Scottish government to stop spending £4.7ma year with AWS after Amazon …

A Freedom of Information request recently published on the Scottish government’s website revealed that in 2018/19, it spent £2.5m with AWS.

Responding to claims made in the TV report, a spokesperson for Amazon said: “We think it’s important to set the record straight: we do not send items to landfill in the UK.

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The errors didn’t point to a precise problem so I spent every second I wasn’t editing Register copy experimenting, trying to exhaust all avenues to prevent hauling the computer off to someone much better at this stuff than me.

As I gently, and I really do mean gently, placed the stupid glass panel from the side of my tower onto the tiled kitchen floor, it exploded into hundreds of thousands of tiny shards.

Redmond said it traced the intrusion to a member of a team it calls Nobelium, the suspected Kremlin-run crew that used tainted SolarWinds Orion updates to snoop on organizations around the world.

It appears Microsoft was investigating a wider phishing campaign orchestrated by Nobelium when it discovered one of its own support agents had been hooked by the gang, handing the miscreants access to internal tools.

Andrii Kolpakov, 33, a Ukrainian national, was cuffed by authorities in Lepe, Spain, in 2018, and extradited to the US in 2019.

FIN7 injected malware into the networks of thousands of American food, hospitality, and gaming chains to steal customers’ financial details.

While its desktop sibling has had its ups and downs over the years, Windows Server has soldiered on behind the scenes.

Consisting of four daisy-chained flaws, the vulns have a combined CVSSv3.1 score of 8.1 and allow remote code execution at an early stage of booting a vulnerable system by authenticated attackers.

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