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📡AWS announced a new AWS Direct Connect location at the Equinix BA1 data center near Barcelona, Spain, enabling private, direct connectivity to all public AWS Regions (excluding China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This is the first Direct Connect site in Barcelona and the third in Spain, offering dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps circuits with MACsec encryption available. Direct Connect enables private physical connections between AWS and customer data centers or colocation facilities, delivering a more consistent network experience than the public internet.

🔒UpGuard discovered and secured a publicly accessible rsync server holding roughly three terabytes and millions of files belonging to the Oklahoma Department of Securities. The exposed content included personal records, large email archives, virtual machine images, investigative files, and administrative credentials that threatened the agency’s network integrity. UpGuard notified state personnel and public access was removed on December 8, 2018.