US hard liquor giant Brown-Forman is the latest high-profile victim of ransomware criminals. Even if the company’s name doesn’t ring a bell, some of its products are well-known to spirits drinkers world-wide: Brown-Forman is a multi-billion dollar business that owns Jack Daniel’s whiskey, Finlandia vodka and other global brands. Read more…

Smaller Data Center Providers Hang On, Hold Fast. America’s local and regional data centers have been operating on full alert. And it’s been three months for them, not two. Day One for many of America’s regional and metropolitan data center providers may have been Monday, February 3, 2020. Just over two weeks earlier, the State of New York issued a warning to its clinical laboratories and healthcare facilities to prepare for a potential outbreak of a mutated animal virus, linked to a seafood and animal market in Wuhan, China. Read more…