Patch Tueday
Critical vulnerability and creepy Wi-Fi bug fixed on a rather tame Patch Tuesday
"It’s not clear how many affected systems are exposed. Now would be a good time to audit your networks to ensure TCP port 1801 is not reachable.”
Oracle
Oracle declares itself a "high-growth cloud business" after record-breaking Q4
"I started talking about this tipping point four years ago, and you've seen it continue to play out in our results since then.”
cybersecurity
Arm GPU vulnerability under active attack
So far in 2024, Arm has highlighted eight vulns affecting its Bifrost GPU and 10 impacting Valhall.
News
Adobe privacy crisis deepens as users threaten “Nightshade” attacks
"They think they can use anything you upload for AI training purposes? I'm filling up my entire 20 GB storage with poisoned images..."
Microsoft
Microsoft's "power" may cause "harm" to cloud market competition, watchdog warns
"Customers are left with no economically reasonable alternative but to choose Azure, even if they prefer the prices, quality, security, innovations and features of rivals."
cybersecurity
How CISOs can make sure a cyber insurance claim pays out
Leading insurer highlights “shocking blind spots” that “happen over and over again on a daily basis” to invalidate claims.
News
Warning over Azure Service Tags vulnerability backed by infosec pros
Tenable research "revealed an attack surface most users of Azure service were probably not accounting for..."
News
NHS will fail to count death toll of London hospital cyberattack, CEO warns
"Right now, *no one* has died from a cyberattack that has targeted or shut down a hospital, but actuarial data shows that more than 300 people *probably* died as a result of WannaCry"
News
Adobe joins Microsoft in admitting it's now basically spyware
Updated terms give Adobe the right to “access your content through both automated and manual methods”.
Databricks
Databricks' new open data type wins praise from Goldman's CDO
But Apache Hudi chief sounds a cautionary note over this week's $1 billion "Tabular" acquisition
Monzo
Monzo finally turns a profit, ramps up tech spend £18.5m
The challenger bank has made big investments in tech and is committed to building its own native systems to own every part of its stack