How a Brute Force Attack Unmasked a Ransomware Infrastructure Network

A routine RDP brute-force alert led to unusual credential hunting and a geo-distributed VPN-linked infrastructure. Huntress Labs explains how one compromised login unraveled a suspected ...
Princeton University

How a band of engineers anticipated the cloud and remade the internet

Distributed systems of servers now power almost everything we do online, from file sharing to video streaming to shopping.
Frontiers

Distributed Ledger Technology and Its Applications in IoT-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems

The Cyber-Physical System (CPS) nowadays relates to many commercialized and popularized technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT, IIoT), ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft: KB5070311 triggers File Explorer white flash in dark mode

Microsoft has confirmed that the KB5070311 preview update is triggering bright white flashes when launching the File Explorer in dark mode on Windows 11 systems. "After installing KB5070311, you might ...
SiliconANGLE

Exclusive: Panzura adds file-level geofencing and native S3 support to its global cloud

Panzura LLC, maker of a global cloud file system, is adding native Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 application programming interface compatibility and file-level geofencing to its CloudFS platform in ...
New Scientist

Google says its quantum computer can reveal the structure of molecules

Researchers at Google Quantum AI have used their Willow quantum computer to help interpret data from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, a mainstay of chemistry and biology research. The ...
T&D

Alliant Energy Charges Up 100 MW Battery Energy Storage System

Public utility Alliant Energy Corp. successfully integrated the Madison, Wisc.-headquartered utility’s first battery energy storage system, a 100 MW installation located adjacent to its 200 MW Grant ...
The New York Times

Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System

Federal officials are scrambling to assess the damage and address flaws in a sprawling, heavily used computer system long known to have vulnerabilities. By Adam Goldman Glenn Thrush and Mattathias ...
Computer Weekly

Broadcom unveils Jericho4 for distributed AI networking across datacentres

Even as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes indispensable for network operations and enabling tomorrow’s businesses, AI models are growing in size and complexity, with infrastructure requirements ...
ZDNet

Linux 6.16 brings faster file systems, improved confidential memory support, and more Rust support

The changes in the latest Linux kernel, Linux 6.16, may be small, but they include some significant ones. Linus Torvalds himself summed up this release as looking fine, small, and calm, but not ...
Nature

Optimization of Small File Management in Distributed File Systems

The proliferation of small files in distributed file systems poses significant challenges that affect both storage efficiency and operational performance. Modern systems, such as Hadoop Distributed ...