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The insurance industry continues to throw up some intriguing job opportunities for ambitious IT professionals. The Stack's latest job of the week is at insurer Aviva, which is looking for a Head of IT Procurement. Aviva is a leading UK provider of insurance, wealth and retirement solutions, with

Boards must do more

A severe new Linux kernel vulnerability dubbed "Dirty Pipe" allows an attacker with read-only access mode to escalate privileges and gain root. The vulnerability exists in all Linux kernel versions from 5.8 forward. Exploitation is not challenging and although the attack requires local access the impact is

Google has agreed to buy Mandiant for $5.4 billion in cash -- a move that startled many market watchers after months of speculation that Microsoft was close to acquiring the cybersecurity company. The move comes just one year after Mandiant regained its independence, with FireEye in October 2021 selling

Elon Musk has warned that the Starlink terminals in Ukraine could be targeted by Russia, days after re-routing satellites over the embattled country and promising delivery of more receiver terminals. He said on Twitter: "Starlink is the only non-Russian communications system still working in some parts of Ukraine, so

"This is a big shift, and it's kind of concerning..."

Next Games runs on an Azure stack. Acquisition boosts Netflix' game ambitions.

Daxin malware has some really clever C2 techniques to exfiltrate intelligence