Last week, some of Microsoft’s apps were knocked offline in an intentional cyber-attack, it said in an update. The company’s attempts to stop the hack amplified it. That meant that some of its apps and features were offline for much of 31 July. It came just days after Windows PCs were hit by a huge outage that brought much of the world to a standstill, cancelling flights and delaying hospital appointments. That was the result of a bug in cybersecurity software made by third-party company Cro
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Maybe some of our readers are old enough to remember Avon’s catchphrase, “Avon calling!” The Avon ladies show up at your door and rang the doorbell to sell your mother cosmetics. “Avon is Reeling.” A misconfigured cloud server at global cosmetics brand Avon was recently discovered leaking 19 million records including personal information and technical logs. Researchers at SafetyDetectives said they found the Elasticsearch database on an Azure server publicly exposed with no password protection o
