Microsoft raises Azure availability, lowers prices

Microsoft has now promised to deliver a service-level agreement (SLA) of 99.99 percent availability, equivalent to a downtime of just 53 minutes per year.

This will come as a welcome increase from the 99.95 percent previously delivered, particularly given the number of Azure outages that have occurred in recent weeks.

Alongside this, the firm has introduced a new low cost performance level called S0, enabling more customers to benefit from features in the Standard Tier. The monthly cost of S0 will be $15 and will be available from November, when the new price scheme launches.

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Recovering Your Files from CryptoLocker Free Tool from FireEye

Your Locker of Information for CryptoLocker Decryption | FireEye Blog.

Kudo’s to FireEye for not only building and hosting this tool so consumers can get their files back but also for their effort to acquire a large number of the private keys that made this possible.  FireEye does some very great work and always acts honorably.

To help solve the problem of victims’ files still being encrypted, we leveraged our close partnership with Fox-IT. We developed a decryption assistance website and corresponding tool designed to help those afflicted with the original CryptoLocker malware.”

https://www.decryptcryptolocker.com/