Cybersecurity Dridex crimeware is back with a vengeance - and now it's dropping ransomware too. Malicious Excel docs are the most common dropper.
Cybersecurity NSA: DNS-over-HTTPS "no panacea". NCSC: Handy if *we* run it, though. DoH can "bring issues to enterprises, including a false sense of security" says NSA.
ESG/ClimateTech One to watch #2: Carbon management startup Persefoni. "Like GDPR in 2017. People know they need to comply, but not how..."
Featured Is Nigeria an overlooked IT outsourcing gold mine? From power to connectivity, cost and more, here what you need to know.
Enterprise IT TSMC ups CapEx to $28 billion, touts imminent start of 3nm chip production; 5G opportunities. Smartphones dominate, but HPC and IoT chip demand are rising.
Cybersecurity NSA's Anne Neuberger lands key Biden administration cybersecurity role New team will "prepare for and respond to the full spectrum of threats"
Enterprise IT FCA warns firms on remote working compliance: urges tight ship on call recording "There is a real risk of loss of monitoring and surveillance capability"
Cybersecurity A critical bug in Microsoft Defender has been actively exploited in the wild. 0day is one of 83 CVEs in Patch Tuesday
Cybersecurity NIS 2: Winds of change blowing as Europe sharply tightens up cybersecurity requirements. EU will carry out "coordinated security risk assessments of specific critical ICT services, systems or products supply chains"
Featured Sensitive data accessed after "malicious attack" on New Zealand's central bank "It will take time to understand the full implications of this breach"
Cybersecurity Fresh warning to businesses over rising "Egregor" ransomware threat. Not an executable, but a DLL executed using Windows’ rundll32.exe utility. To evade sandbox detection it only...
Cloud Serverless row erupts as "sneaky" cloud credentials shift triggers user concerns. "Most people would never happen on this readme..."
ESG/ClimateTech Climate risk data is a hot mess. These open source pioneers want to set things straight. "This is a thorny problem that we have to solve"
Featured Dr Michael Gorriz, Group CIO, Standard Chartered, on going all-in on the cloud in 2021. "With core banking, we plan to have 15 countries in the cloud by the end of 2021"
Cybersecurity Security experts warn over federal network risk following storming of US Capitol "The first port of call will be to count inventory..."
Cybersecurity SolarWinds update: US intelligence community says attack likely Russian in origin - confirms circa 9 gov't agencies hacked after supply chain compromise "Compromise will... require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate"
Enterprise IT Puppet CEO Yvonne Wassenaar is gearing up to take the company public. Here's where she's focussing attention. "People tend to commingle public cloud with cloud native..."
Featured 5 things to know about the CIA's website redesign, from a Gucci connection to a font row. The designer's previous clients include Kanye, Gucci, Red Bull.
Cybersecurity There's a critical bug in this router: but the vendor doesn't want to know. Plus ça change plus c'est la même chose?
Featured "Don't be evil: unionise" - Alphabet, Google workers form historic union amid rising staff discontent "Of course our employees have protected labour rights that we support..."
Cloud *Cough* All your Amazon CloudFront RTMP distributions are about to be deleted. "Happy New Year. We just deleted all your RTMP distributions. Suck it up. They were broken anyway!"
Cybersecurity Thin Clients, Full Fat CVSS 10 Security Vulnerabilities Dell Wyse ThinOS 8.6 and prior versions contain a brace of CVSS 10 critical vulnerabilities, that could give a remote, unauthenticated attacker the ability to -- in Dell's own words -- "manipulate the configuration of any target specific station" and "gain access to sensitive
Featured The WHO Academy: From sexual health to hackathons, the pressure is on to deliver. The WHO Academy aims to reach 10m health workers by 2023. First, it needs to build hundreds of courses -- and a software platform.
Cloud Palantir's controversial "membership" of EU sovereign cloud project GAIA-X sparks outrage (and confusion) "The decision on all applications is yet to be made"
Enterprise IT Mainframe to Linux: still a howling headache? "The way COBOL is being talked about is a red herring"