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Amazon Sites in Europe Suffer Outages, AWS Customers Not Affected: Netcraft

Amazon retail sites and streaming video services in Europe suffered a pair of outages on Sunday and Monday, Downdetector.co.uk reports. Sites affected included amazon.co.uk, amazon.de and amazon.fr, but not US-hosted amazon.com or any of the thousands of AWS customers, according to Netcraft. Continue reading

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Obama Proposes $14 Billion Cybersecurity Budget for Fiscal Year 2016

US President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.99 trillion budget for fiscal year 2016 on Monday that includes $14 billion for boosting cybersecurity programs in the country. Continue reading

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WikiLeaks Wants Answers After Google Handed Over Staff Emails to US DOJ

Lawyers for defendants in the WikiLeaks espionage case sent an open letter to Google on Monday demanding answers after Google informed three WikiLeaks staff on Friday that their information had been handed to the US Department of Justice to comply with a search warrant in April 2012. Continue reading

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Ting Brings Internet Service to City-Owned Fiber Optic Network in Maryland

Westminister, Maryland, is the latest city to bring Ting on as a network operator of its city-owned fiber optic network. In a council meeting on Monday, the city announced that Ting is the first service provider on its fiber optic network, and Ting said it will turn the city’s dark fiber “into an affordable, usable Internet service.” Continue reading

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US Military Social Media Accounts Hacked by ISIS Sympathizers Cyber Caliphate

The Twitter and YouTube accounts of US Central Command (CENTCOM) were hacked on Monday by the Islamic terrorist group Cyber Caliphate. CENTCOM oversees US military operations in the Middle East. Cyber Caliphate threatened additional attacks in the US after hacking two US news outlets a week ago. The group claimed… Continue reading

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