Read This "I don't speak computer. What the f*** does this say?" Silicon Valley Covid billboard sparks debate, distaste. A public health message posted on a billboard in Silicon Valley has drawn a decidely mixed reaction, with the billboard, written in JavaScript, ostensibly encouraging people to wear masks, socially distance, wash hands and get tested -- but described as inadvertantly tragicomic by some, and worryingly elitist by others. The
Enterprise IT Atom bank CTO Rana Bhattacharya on migrating to GCP, deploying Kafka, and programming satellites... "We've been on a quite a massive transformation journey"
Enterprise IT ERP specialist appoints Dean Forbes as CEO - with a mandate for M&A. "Highly profitable and cash-generative"
Featured TSB COO Suresh Viswanathan on building an IT team, tackling an analogue legacy, and "innovating on the fly" "The gov't was innovating on the fly; we had to respond to that..."
Featured Revealed: SolarWinds hackers stole Microsoft Azure customer identity source code, more. "The search terms... indicate focus on attempting to find secrets"
Read This These North Korean hackers are the "world’s leading bank robbers", stealing $1.3b. DPRK's Canadian money launderer pleads guilty.
Cybersecurity Add "Emotional Intelligence" to the list of critical CISO traits. "A lot of security professionals have very strong opinions"
Featured This free AWS pentesting tool is more effective than Amazon's own. Open source security has a lot to give.
Read This Edenhouse, one of the UK's largest independent SAP partners, sells up. Independent SAP consultancies continue to get snapped up.
Enterprise IT Clock ticks on radical plans to overhaul, digitalise £290 billion in UK public procurement "A significant opportunity to foster institutional change"
Enterprise IT UK gov't inks £9m extension with Oracle as £64m ERP overhaul looms "Highly customised" system not getting swapped out earlier than 2023.
Enterprise IT Meet Robert Opp -- the United Nations' first Chief Digital Officer The UN's first CDO joins us to talk transformation, inclusion, and more.
Cybersecurity Security researcher hacks Apple, Google, Microsoft, after compromising upstream software packages. "Shopify's build system automatically installed a Ruby gem only a few hours after I had uploaded it, and then tried to run the code inside it."
Featured Dr Louise Beaumont: Financial services has long been a "fat complacent oligopoly with zero innovation" "Banks have a chronic imagination gap"
Cybersecurity Hacker gained access to a US water treatment plant, tried to poison water. FBI investigating after thwarted breach.
Enterprise IT UK chipmaker Dialog Semiconductor agrees to €4.9 billion cash buyout. Apple supplier agrees to all-cash deal.
Cybersecurity Another batch of critical bugs in Cisco products raises tough questions. Cisco product security continues to demand regular urgent patching from users: the company last week pushing out an advisory after multiple critical (CVSS 9.8) vulnerabilities were found in a family of VPN routers. The bugs grant any unauthenticated, remote attacker the ability to execute code as all-powerful root user.
Enterprise IT CloudBees appoints new CEO, eyes IPO, as it continues a pivot from Jenkins to cloud-based SaaS. "Look for us to be more acquisitive".
Read This "People yawn", says Jeff Bezos, stepping down as Amazon CEO. Andy Jassy's not yawning... AWS's CEO has big boots to fill.
Featured One to watch #3: Homomorphic encryption specialist Enveil "The AML use case kind of starts in the UK with the FCA"
Enterprise IT A major new ESG report casts light on a complex market: Our digested read. "Providers not only have an issue with timeliness, but also with accuracy and reliability"
Cybersecurity Millions affected by 10-year old bug in a Linux utility that gives root. Full root privileges on Ubuntu 20.04, Debian 10, and Fedora 33 demonstrated.
Cloud This AWS API bug lets you check permissions without generating logs in CloudTrail: It's not getting fixed. Some 645 different API actions across 40 different AWS services affected.
Enterprise IT Intel's Bob Swan is going out in style - but a sweeping shakeup is coming, Gelsinger suggests. Gelsinger: "We're not just interested in closing gaps."
Cybersecurity Malwarebytes the latest victim of SolarWinds attackers: Here's how the threat group is pivoting to Azure/O365 tenants - and how to secure them. Help yourself to a third free tool to audit AD permission.