Just few weeks after “SolarWinds” massive hack attack based on source code modification, EYE a cybersecurity company based in Holland, found an “accidentally” open backdoor in some of Zyxel’s firewalls and AP controllers. The latest firmware contains the root user name and password for the SSH and web interface. Anyone who know the user name and password can take remote control of the system! It’s highly suggested to disable external SSH and Web management until firmware update. Based on ZDnet more than 100.000 devices are affected!

Below the links to

• EYE control original found the issue https://www.eyecontrol.nl/blog/undocumented-user-account-in-zyxel-products.html
• Zyxel’s security advisory contains the list of affected devices https://www.zyxel.com/support/CVE-2020-29583.shtml
• ZDnet’s article https://www.zdnet.com/article/backdoor-account-discovered-in-more-than-100000-zyxel-firewalls-vpn-gateways/

Let’s send this record with the next Voyager spaceprobe

Booting a PC from Vinyl for a Warmer, Richer OS

On October 29 ’20 Canalys posted the Q3 2020 cloud market shares.

Some interesting points

• The cloud market growing with rates above 30%. Pandemic is an acceleration catalyst for cloud adoption.  
• It is clearly a two-horse race between AWS and Microsoft. Considering that the “Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI)” cloud contact sticks to Microsoft ($10 Billion Value) the gap between the 2^nd and 3^rd place will be unbridgeable.
• Vendors like Oracle, IBM etc. are below 6% following Alibaba Cloud, leader in Chinese cloud market a key player in Asia Pacific area.
• Europe has no serious presence in this market and hopes to change this picture with projects likes Gaia-X    

Workforce. Workplace. Workstyle. It’s all changed. Following the pandemic, organizations are grappling with how to create the most effective and safe environment from the office to remote work. HPE’s Rohit Dixit joins us to discuss the technological and cultural impact of a hybrid workplace.

Podcast: https://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/576836/78822800

Source (HPE): The Many Futures of Work (Ep. 8)

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