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Microsoft says it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever recorded

The Verge

The attack targeted an Azure customer in Europe, and was 140 percent higher than the highest attack bandwidth volume Microsoft recorded in 2020. It also exceeds the peak traffic volume of 2.3Tbps, the previous largest attack, which was directed at Amazon Web Services last year.

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Amazon may launch healthcare business line with at-home COVID test and other diagnostic services

GeekWire

Amazon first started building out its internal COVID-19 testing lab with diagnostic equipment from third-party manufacturers in April 2020. Business Insider reported Monday that the company may offer at-home medical tests — including for COVID-19 — and a third-party marketplace for general home-diagnostics services.

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Seattle investors back Battlesnake, makers of a growing game that turns coding into competition

GeekWire

.” When the pandemic derailed in-person events in 2020, Battlesnake went completely online and gave programmers stuck at home the ability to connect with each other and compete for prizes. The community has grown to some 10,000 developers around the world.

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How commercial space stations could become the final frontier for data and cybersecurity

GeekWire

Meyerson’s experience in the space industry goes even further back than Blue Origin, taking in a six-year stint as senior program manager for Kistler Aerospace’s K-1 reusable launch vehicle (which never got off the ground) and 12 years as an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. ISPCS via YouTube).

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. He talked about his history and focus at Amazon in this 2020 conversation at the IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Microsoft Photo).

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