We are looking far afield for the future of data centers: in deserts, under the sea, and of course, in space. Data centers in strange places are steadily moving from the realm of imagination to reality. Lonestar Data Holdings, for one, recently achieved milestones in testing its commercial lunar data center in orbit. How does Lonestar’s most recent mission push us forward on the path to commercial data centers around and on the Moon? What are the unique challenges that must be solved for...

The US General Services Administration (GSA) announced plans for an overhaul of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). The new approach, dubbed FedRAMP 20x, will lean into automation to make “authorization simpler, easier, and cheaper while continuously improving security,” according to the GSA press release. InformationWeek spoke to four leaders in the private sector about the anticipated changes to FedRAMP, the potential impact, and how CIOs at government...

Attribution can be a tricky process. In the case of a DDoS attack, threat actors often employ botnets to direct a high volume of traffic to a target, overwhelming that network and disrupting its service. After outages at X caused allegedly by a DDoS attack, plenty of people asked who was responsible. Elon Musk cast blame on Ukraine, Politico reports. Cybersecurity experts pushed back against that assertion. Meanwhile, Dark Storm, a pro-Palestinian group, claimed responsibility, further...