News
AWS’s new CEO started as an intern: Faces slowing growth, AI battle
Spitting feathers about an obsession with stochastic parrots? Matt Garman's view is likely to be customer-shaped.
Veeam
Veeam to offer Proxmox support
GA scheduled for Q3
Oracle
Oracle goes vegan: Dumps Terraform for OpenTofu
Oracle E-Business Suite tells customers to shift to latest update built on open source. We guess OpenTofu is enterprise-ready!
AI
UK’s new supercomputer comes online, awaits further 5,280 GPUs
Government has also joined Europe's EuroHPC programme; encourages researchers to tap large pot of cash.
DWP
A hard reset: UK’s digital “Pension Dashboard Programme” stumbles
Costs climb $54 million as government department calls for project owner to “develop a deliverable plan” with “robust governance”
Wales
UK's first national SOC opens in Wales -- local authorities encouraged to onboard
18 local authorities along with fire and rescue services to get onboarded to centrally funded Security Operations Centre.
healthcare
One of the US's largest hospital providers, Ascension, fired IT staff in a cost-cutting drive; now it’s sucking up a cyber attack
"Unusual activity on select technology network systems" causes nationwide medical chaos as doctors lose access to EMR.
Cisco
$100m in fake Cisco kit running "unauthorised modifications" made it into sensitive military installations, businesses
"Unauthorized modifications to both the hardware and the software of these devices..."
Lockbit
Lockbit “leader” revealed, as indictment suggests Boeing was hit with a $200m ransom demand
"The average number of monthly LockBit attacks has reduced by 73% in the UK since February’s action..."
Microsoft
Microsoft announces long-awaited “external authentication methods” for Entra ID
EAMs require at least a Microsoft Entra ID P1 license but will let customers plug a wider range of third-party identity providers directly into Microsoft's backbone identity systems.
MongoDB
MongoDB takes data streaming service GA
Plans to expand beyond Kafka in coming months.
ransomware
After CEO’s testimony, 3 vital lessons from Change Healthcare’s $1.6 billion ransomware attack
Two of America's most impactful cybersecurity incidents (Change Healthcare and Colonial Pipeline) began with attackers exploiting leaked credentials for VPNs with no MFA.