Cybersecurity
Ray-Ban maker saw $272 million stolen by cybercriminals -- behind it was a romance scam
Company blames JPMorgan for AML failings, sues it for recovery
Cybersecurity
"Caught by the Fuzz" -- These free tools for hackers are also good for application security QA
Analysis by The Stack of over 90,000 vulnerabilities revealed a sharp growth in bugs associated with widely known “CWEs” – or potentially exploitable weaknesses that can occur in architecture, design, code, or implementation and which could potentially have been caught upstream in a secure development process. One control is to
Enterprise IT
Southwest Airlines’ $825m writedown is not a salutory tale about technical debt for CIOs
Failure to invest in modernising its IT estate contributed to what Southwest Airlines anticipates will be a colossal $825 million writedown in Q4, after it cancelled 6,700 flights between December 21 to December 31. The airline exposed the losses in an SEC filing ahead of its Q4 earnings, saying
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Starling Bank CEO aims fire at "tech bros", to quadruple pre-tax profits
Anne Boden aims fire at "tech bros"
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Rackspace blames Microsoft over ransomware attack
Exchange admins have been playing whac-a-mole and still getting pwned...
Cybersecurity
CircleCI warns users to "immediately rotate all secrets" amid credential abuse evidence
Updated January 6, 11:00 BST: CircleCI has updated its advisory which deserves revisiting. CircleCI is calling on customers to “immediately rotate any and all secrets” after a security incident. The breach appears to have occurred around December 21 and to have gone unnoticed over the Christmas period. Credentials stolen
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Amazon to sack 18,000; taps $8bn loan. CEO Jassy: “We’ll be scrappy”
Amazon is cutting over 18,000 jobs, CEO Andy Jassy has confirmed – saying he was pressed into revealing the news before contacting employees “as one of our teammates leaked this information externally.” The majority of the 18,000 Amazon job cuts will be concentrated in Amazon Stores and HR, including
Enterprise IT
Big Blue rings channel changes: But where's that IBM Platinum list?
Where's that list of platinum partners?
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Job of the Week: CDIO, Thames Valley Police
As The Stack’s article on digital forensics challenges emphasised, both the opportunity for technology to transform policing and the headwinds – restrictive budgets, organisational sclerosis, change fatigue, technology debt, siloes – against it are significant. For those keen on a genuinely meaningful challenge at the highest level, however, there are few
Enterprise IT
Psst: Your Windows 8.1 boxes are a week from blocking fresh installs of Microsoft 365 apps
No Extended Security Update for this OS...
Enterprise IT
Deloitte wins £2.3m "digital forensics" contract as police devices backlog mounts
Police face a backlog of 25,000 unexamined devices...
Enterprise IT
From the “Great Resignation to the Great Retention” in 2023
Talent retention will be a core challenge of 2023. Here's what you should consider.