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AWS to Open Data Centers in New Zealand

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SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced plans to open an infrastructure region in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2024. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region will consist of three Availability Zones (AZs) and join the existing 81 Availability Zones across 25 geographic AWS Regions at launch. The Region will be owned and operated by a local AWS entity in New Zealand. Globally, AWS has announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Spain, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the new AWS Region in New Zealand. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region will enable even more developers, startups, and enterprises as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations to run their applications and serve end users from data centers located in New Zealand, ensuring that customers who want to keep their data in New Zealand are able to do so. AWS also released an economic impact study (EIS) that estimates it will create 1,000 new jobs through investment of NZ$7.5 billion (US$5.3 billion) in the new AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region with an estimated economic impact on New Zealand’s GDP of NZ$10.8 billion (US$7.7 billion) over the next 15 years. For more information, visit aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure.

“AWS supports thousands of organizations across New Zealand in their drive to innovate, succeed, and grow globally. AWS Cloud technology is providing new ways for government to further engage with citizens, for enterprises to innovate for their next phase of growth, and for entrepreneurs to build businesses and compete on a global scale,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, Vice President of Infrastructure Services, AWS. “Our investments reflect AWS’s deep and long-term commitment to New Zealand. We are excited to build new world-class infrastructure locally, train New Zealanders with in-demand digital skills, and continue to help local organizations deliver applications that accelerate digital transformation and fuel economic growth.”

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AWS to Open Data Centers in Israel

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SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced it will open an infrastructure region in Israel in the first half of 2023. The AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region will enable even more developers, startups, and enterprises as well as government, education, and non-profits to run their applications and serve end-users from data centers located in Israel. Additionally, the government of Israel announced that it has selected AWS as its primary cloud provider as part of the “Nimbus” contract for government ministries and subsidiaries. The Nimbus framework will provide cloud services to Israeli government ministries including local municipalities, government-owned companies, and public sector organizations with the aim of helping to accelerate digital transformation. It will be instrumental in driving innovation and enabling new digital services for the citizens of Israel. For more information, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/.

“The new AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region will empower more public and private institutions, innovative startups, and global companies to deliver built-for-the-cloud applications that help fuel economic development across the country. It is the latest in our list of AWS Regions across Europe and the Middle East, which includes existing regions in Bahrain, Ireland, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, and the UK as well as regions under development in Spain, Switzerland, and United Arab Emirates,” said Peter DeSantis, Senior Vice President of Global Infrastructure, AWS. “The new region is a continuation of our investment to support enterprises of all kinds, help startups scale and grow, enable technical skills development, and create cloud literacy. Cloud technology is at the heart of the Israeli government’s digital transformation program, and their approach highlights the importance of setting a strong course for cloud adoption and leading by example to re-invent citizen services.”

AWS Regions are comprised of Availability Zones, which place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to significantly reduce the risk…

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Emotet and Data Centers – What You Need to Know

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In January, an international group of law-enforcement agencies took down Emotet, the world’s top malware. Authorities took over its command-and-control servers and installed a kill switch that will automatically uninstall the malware on April 25.

This is good news. Emotet infections can cost up to $1 million per incident to remediate, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. But it doesn’t mean data center security managers can sit back, relax, and let the kill switch do its work.

Related: Microsoft Exchange Hack Could Be Worse Than SolarWinds

Once it embeds itself in a system, Emotet becomes a vector for additional infections. It opens doors on an enterprise network for other malware to walk through. It’s also a worm, so it will try to spread as far and wide as it can.

Now, while the command-and-control servers are down, is the perfect time for security teams to conduct full forensics sweeps, identify any instances of the malware in their systems, trace and shutdown the pathway it used to get into the systems, and track what else it installed and where else it managed to spread.

Related: The SolarWinds Breach Is Shaking Up Incident Response

“After the 25th [of April] you won’t have the evidence that Emotet was there,” Etay Maor, cybersecurity professor at Boston College and senior director of security strategy at Cato, told DCK. “But you might still be exposed because there might be other malware in your systems.”

What Is Emotet?

Emotet first popped up in 2014, when it was just a simple banking trojan. But it grew and evolved, becoming a key part of the “malware-as-a-service” ecosystem. Major cybercriminal groups piggybacked on the Emotet botnet infrastructure to spread their own malware, including ransomware.

“It brought in all its friends,” said Maor. “Whoever paid for the malware-as-a-service was able to get their malware on millions of devices.”

Emotet was also particularly good at evading defenses, including sandboxes. And, it was polymorphic. It changed automatically and constantly, evading signature-based antivirus defenses.

That’s not to say that antivirus software or sandboxes are…

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CYBER WARFARE: Israeli Coronavirus Vaccine Research Centers Hit In Multiple Cyberattacks – Yeshiva World News

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CYBER WARFARE: Israeli Coronavirus Vaccine Research Centers Hit In Multiple Cyberattacks  Yeshiva World News
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