ransomware Fresh Black Basta TTPs revealed as CISA says CNI hit Ransomware group using "Backstab" to kill EDR processes.
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.
Members only 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.
AI Microsoft just released an “air-gapped” LLM for spies: GCHQ doesn't sound wild about the tech... "Every time someone breathlessly gets excited about how LLMs do reasoning, it turns out it was..."
boomi Boomi boss says AI means enterprise apps must learn to reason or die Leads users to the mile high city to prep for AI boom
Zscaler Zscaler breach: Says single test server exposed, downplays risk "No impact or compromise to our customer, production and corporate environments" -- but were credentials stolen?
Cato Networks The Big Interview: Cato Networks CSO Yishay Yovel We stab a fork in an acronym soup and come up with something meaty.
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.
OpenAI OpenAI will pay to scrape Stack Overflow data; surface it with links That's the sound of a lifeline being thrown...
Microsoft Microsoft unleashes new Deputy CISOs, will tie leadership compensation to security AWS’s CISO sniffs that “our security culture starts at the top”
Bank of England "We expect greater engagement" Bank of England cracks whip over operational resilience “Less than a year out from the March 2025 deadline… there is still considerable work to be done for many FMIs.”
Ivanti Gird your loins, there’s a new pre-auth RCE in Ivanti boxes landing "Code execution in 0 seconds (3 seconds to be more accurate), no limitation, no authentication..."
Members only ransomware After CEO’s testimony, 3 vital lessons from Change Healthcare’s $1.6 billion ransomware attack
AWS An attacker could run you up a huge AWS bill just by sending rejected requests to an S3 bucket and there’s little you can do about it AWS has promised action over “Denial of Wallet” risk
Cybersecurity Managing cybersecurity in local government - multiple hats, fewer tools Falkirk Council shows where to find the next generation of tech bairns
AWS A $100 billion AWS and 5 key cloud takeaways from Amazon’s earnings CapEx looks set to pass $60 billion
NSA NSA IT staffer lands 21 years for "Russian" document sale One month on the job; 21 years in prison.
News Brussels hits Meta with 'formal proceedings' over election inteference fears EU worries content moderation opaque, political debate throttled, and disinfo ads generating cash
LLMs Adobe’s new generative AI model won’t give you an image of Donald Trump or Taylor Swift Adobe uses a "multi-layered, continuous review and moderation approach to block and remove content that violates Adobe’s policies"