IBM
LzLabs vs IBM: The latest from court
The latest from London’s Technology & Construction Court as companies clash over mainframe migration software.
Cobalt Strike
Cobalt Strike takedown likely to make Sliver even more popular
Brute Ratel, Sliver and other alternatives are less well-known and mature than Cobalt Strike but increasingly adopted.
OpenSSH
Pre-auth RCE to root in OpenSSH server: 700,000 instances exposed
RHEL 9 affected, Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE push fixes
crowdstrike
CrowdStrike bug maxes out 100% of CPU, requires Windows reboots
"Note: This is 100% of a single core. In an 8-core system for example, an additional 12.5% of unexpected total CPU load would be experienced..."
Intel
Intel’s touts “revolutionary” optical compute interconnect (OCI) chiplet
Global semiconductor sales expected to hit a record $611.2 billion in 2024
Gartner
Platform Engineering: Lessons, queries from the First Hype Cycle
"A linear hype cycle really doesn’t reflect the variety of pathways organisations can take to productivity
Cybersecurity
CISA breach: Hackers gained access to chemical sector's vulnerability assessments
Cybersecurity agency's cybersecurity appliance breached (yes, everything is broken) but no exfiltration seen says CISA
ransomware
Chip firm Marvell in "third-party" data breach as LockBit resurfaces
Criminals offer no proof of Federal Reserve breach claim
OpenAI
OpenAI buys Rockset to make AI “more helpful” in the enterprise
Together, the companies will work on solving "hard database problems that AI apps face at massive scale" and help businesses extract actionable intelligence from their data.
AI
Apple’s AI approach: More model, security details pending says Cupertino, as Musk stirs the pot
From a home-grown, 3b parameter on-device model to the use of its "Talaria" tool, Apple is innovating quietly on AI. Details? Well...
vulnerabilities
Microsoft updates mitigation for critical “wormable” bug
256,000 devices believed publicly exposed. But are MSMQ bugs really attacked in the wild?
AWS
Big Iron to Big Cloud? AWS builds out mainframe migration offering with application testing toolkit
On-demand pricing for AWS Mainframe Modernization Micro Focus Runtime using a M2.m6i.8xlarge instance clocks in at $88.80/hour, for what it's worth. Cheaper options are available.