Iranian Strikes on Amazon Data Centers Highlight Industry’s Vulnerability to Physical Disasters

Multiple high-impact stories: Iranian-linked strikes (drone/kinetic) directly struck two AWS data centers in the UAE and damaged another facility in Bahrain, highlighting cloud provider vulnerability to physical attacks and the need for resilience/geo-redundancy. A patched Android security update addresses an actively exploited Qualcomm graphics integer overflow/wraparound zero-day that leads to memory corruption. Researchers disclosed “AirSnitch,” a Wi‑Fi vulnerability that can bypass client isolation to intercept data and perform machine-in-the-middle attacks. A vulnerability in Microsoft’s/