Boeing
Boeing hack confirmed amid data breach boasts by Lockbit
"We are actively investigating the incident and coordinating with law enforcement and regulatory authorities.”
AI
Biden's AI Executive Order to create standards for identifying "AI-generated content and authenticating official content"
Order also demands "strong new standards for biological synthesis screening" and follows UK concerns around
AWS
How to Shrink EBS Volumes
"Unfortunately, the size of an existing EBS volume cannot be decreased. Instead, it is possible to create a smaller volume and move the data using tools such as rsync, at the cost of pausing the system’s write operations during the migration..."
ransomware
English-speaking ransomware group expanding ops, deploying diverse tools, threats
Both blunt and more advanced social engineering approaches used for initial access; the group also has sophisticated hands-on-keyboards capabilities and a diverse toolset.
ransomware
Was this the most vanilla ransomware attack ever?
"VPNs pose a threat to enterprise security. They create a path in the network perimeter and provide access to network resources after authentication..."
Azure
Azure West Europe wobbles after generator failover fail
Upstream utility disturbance triggers brief bout of sweating with "a small amount of storage nodes" needing to be recovered manually in the wake of the Azure incident,
Uber
Uber takes 4,500 stateless services to a new platform as cloud migration work continues
The shift has teed it up for the ongoing cloud migration with autoscaling and efficiency efforts and says the new platform means “service teams are largely distanced from the infrastructure detail of this transition.”
Vodafone
Vodafone wins £52 million gas CNI network contract
The contract, effective early September, will see Vodafone link National Gas operational control centres, critical national infrastructure (CNI) data centres and remote sites
Cisco
Incident response exercises urged after mass Cisco device exploitation
Cisco says patch pending October 22 for what transpires to have been two discrete zero days...
AWS
AWS’s S3 data replication falters in US-EAST-1 as hyperscaler tackles "backlog"
" our engineers have been focused on mitigating the impact of the delayed replication through changes made to replication subsystems, resource adjustments and other modifications"
nuclear
UK nuclear firms get code red warning over cybersecurity failings
Cybersecurity failures "escalated…to significantly enhanced attention"
Banking
Goldman Sachs stung as it dumps fintech, commercial real estate losses mount
Commercial real estate losses show scale of "remote work" damage on CRE area.