Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider.
The aerospace manufacturer, which has already consolidated its datacenter estate and uses services like Google Workspace, now wants to move key on-premises applications including ERP, manufacturing execution systems, CRM, and product lifecycle management (aircraft designs) to the cloud.
Read more…
Source: MSN News
Sign up for the Cyber Security Review Newsletter
The latest cyber security news and insights delivered right to your inbox
Related:
- Outlook.com hack much worse than initially thought
April 15, 2019
A hack that Microsoft said affected “some” of its users’ email accounts is much worse than initially thought, according to reports. On Saturday, the company confirmed that some users of its email services had been targeted by hackers. But the issue is thought to be much worse than previously reported as the hackers were able to ...
- 540 Million Facebook User Records Found On Unprotected Amazon Servers
April 3, 2019
It’s been a bad week for Facebook users. First, the social media company was caught asking some of its new users to share passwords for their registered email accounts and now… …the bad week gets worse with a new privacy breach. More than half a billion records of millions of Facebook users have been found exposed on unprotected Amazon cloud ...
- Email verification service takes itself offline after 800 million records get publicly exposed
March 8, 2019
An online email verification service has taken itself offline after approximately 809 million of its customers’ emails were exposed through an unprotected server. Researchers discovered a non-password protected MongoDB instance amounting to 150GB of data split across four separate collections last week. They analysed this exposed data, 808,593,939 records in total, and published their findings on Thursday. The exposed ...
- Data-Wiping Cyberattacks Plague Financial Firms
March 6, 2019
Over a quarter of surveyed financial institutions reported that they were targeted by destructive cyberattacks over the past year, bent on completely destroying data. That’s according to a new Carbon Black report unveiled at RSA this year. The report, “Modern Bank Heists: The Bank Robbery Shifts to Cyberspace,” outlines the top attacks that financial firms are facing ...
- Terrorists and politicians exposed by Dow Jones data leak
February 28, 2019
A Dow Jones watchlist of more than 2.4 million entities that its clients should consider ‘high-risk’ has been inadvertently leaked to the public, thanks to an incorrectly configured and unsecured Elasticsearch database. The database, which was hosted on AWS, was discovered by Bob Diachenko, a security researcher who has previously identified similar data breaches involving Veeam and contact aggregator Adapt.io. ...
- Flaw in Multiple Airline Systems Exposes Passenger Data
February 7, 2019
Researchers have discovered that multiple airline e-ticketing systems do not encrypt check-in links. The security faux pas could allow bad actors on the same network as the victim to view – and in some cases even change – their flight booking details or boarding passes. Security researchers at Wandera said that eight airlines have been sending ...