Microsoft has a unveiled a set of services it hopes will alleviate security concerns with its public cloud service. Known as Azure Confidential Computing, the service is currently in an early access test and aims to provide security for cloud data while it is in use by cloud applications. The idea, says Microsoft, is to keep the data away from threats while it is crunched on the server and sent to the application. “While many breaches are...

Over the last nine months, dozens of U.S. power companies were compromised by an organized hacking group to the extent that some of them could have sabotaged and shut down production and distribution, according to Symantec, a cybersecurity company that discovered the attack. In some cases, this involved access to details about how the company operated, engineering plans and equipment, in some cases even down to the level of controlling valves,...