AWS Amazon’s “Rufus” shows it eating its own AI dogfood, as AWS closes in on $100B run rate; Q comes to Glue "You can ask Amazon Q for Data Integration to ‘read JSON files from S3, join on ‘accountid’, and load into DynamoDB’ and in response, it will return an end-to-end data integration job that can perform that action"
Cloudflare Cloudflare says hackers stole source code, breached Atlassian and AWS environments Incident forces huge hygiene effort, as Cloudflare rotates 5,000 credentials, triages 4,893 systems, reimages and reboots every machine after compromise.
Ivanti Ivanti 0day fest continues with fresh bugs, attacks, as CISA tells federal agencies "just disconnect" "Threat actors have recently developed workarounds to current mitigations and detection methods and have been able to exploit weaknesses, move laterally, and escalate privileges without detection..."
Members only AI Red RAG to a Bull? Generative AI, data security, and toolchain maturity. An ecosystem evolves... "Here's where people end up in RAG hell, with a bunch of unfamiliar tools and in many cases immature tools...”
Sponsored Developers drive Vodafone’s modernisation through cloud-native apps Vodafone is creating hundreds of new cloud-native apps, underpinned by a multi-cloud database which is giving the telco giant resilience and the ability to innovate at speed and scale.
News Gen AI-powered cybersecurity? Maybe get identity management fixed first Sysdig research shows companies still not getting it right when shifting left
AI AI sends cloud earnings soaring, brings customers rushing for Google, Microsoft Nadella: "We now have 53,000 Azure AI customers – over one-third are new to Azure over the past 12 months"
cyberattack Hack back: US disconnects Volt Typhoon "This actor is not doing the quiet intelligence collection and theft of secrets... they can disrupt major services if, and when, the order comes down,"
SolarWinds SolarWinds howls back at SEC, accuses agency of "revictimization" Software firm calls for dismissal of SEC action
patch Patch now: Critical Jenkins exploits released POCs validated, over 45,000 instances still publicly exposed after critical Jenkins vulnerability disclosed.
CFTC US commodities market regulator wants traders to ratchet up resilience Just how do you make trading places more secure
News Washington demands hyperscalers report foreign users of AI hardware, software Policy targets China, will likely hit Europe
Microsoft How Russian spooks hacked Microsoft, the gap in its “morally indefensible” response, and what CISOs can learn from the attack Expect to start hearing more about MS Graph...
Kubernetes A NASDAQ-listed firm left its Kubernetes clusters perilously exposed. 1,000+ have fallen into the same trap. Here’s why Google says "we've taken several steps to reduce the risk of users making authorization errors with the Kubernetes built-in users and groups, including..."
Big Data Turn of the century UK pols say it's time to turn NHS health data into a 'competitive asset' "If you’re selling data to the highest bidder, the people who buy it will be those who can make the most money, not who will do the most good for the NHS..."
FTC Feds to businesses: Preservation rules don't vanish with "ephemeral" messages "This preservation responsibility applies to new methods of collaboration and information sharing tools, even including tools that allow for messages to disappear via ephemeral messaging capabilities"
Members only ransomware EquiLend confirms ransomware attack has crippled $2.4 trillion NGT trading platform.
open source New Harvard study finds Open Source is worth up to $8.8 trillion "Any time you spend on building that software to operate is time taken away from building the services that customers really want and will pay for. Open source software helps companies get to their goals faster..."
Members only Broadcom VMware clarifies portfolio rationalisation after deleting a post that shocked customers "We appreciate our customers and partners who shared their input on the communications to help us bring more clarity..."
cybersecurity $2.4 trillion securities platform owner hacked. EquiLend admits "unauthorised access" "We are working methodically to restore the involved services as quickly as possible"
email Next for The Bear: Hacking HPE inboxes "Cozy Bear" gained unauthorized access to HPE’s cloud-based email environment
Sponsored Banks are sitting on a data goldmine: Firstly though, they need to unlock it... Stored procedures in Sybase-based applications that have become a "humungous monster" do not make that easy. One banking multinational is testing the switch to MongoDB...
Ministry of Defence MPs warn MoD over 42-year-old software, flag concern at Boeing’s “fat, juicy” contracts "Crikey! I'll believe that when I see it."
vulnerabilities Exploit released for fresh Fortra GoAnywhere bug: CVSS 9.8 and again, nasty. Patch up. A 10-line exploit is now widely available. Unpatched instances *will* come under attack.