Instead of buying expensive hardware and software to ensure security of their network, companies have started opting to outsource the security services and concentrate on their core businesses. The rising use of cloud based service is ultimately increasing the use of managed services in the industry.

A statement on a Twitter account attributed to a former Cardinals scouting executive convicted of hacking into the Astros’ computer system said Houston had earlier “unauthorized access” into the St. Louis computer system.

In January 2017, not long after Starbucks announced that it planned on hiring 10,000 refugees over the next five years in response to President Donald Trump’s immigration ban, an image appeared purporting to show a #WelcomeRefugees promotion from the company: The image was also posted to the r/The_Donald section of Reddit on 31 January 2017, along with messages encouraging other members to spread it on social media to see if people would fall for it: This image is, of course, a hoax. It is based on a real Starbucks advertisement from 2014; whoever created the fake #refugeeswelcome promotion simply deleted the original text of the genuine Starbucks advertisement and substituted their own.

There’s a new object storage server that has been introduced as an open source alternative to Amazon S3 and other API-compatible services. Minio , written in Go and available under the Apache license, allows unstructured data to be stored on a pool of drives of your choosing.