China Threat group is installing a backdoor in compromised Cisco router firmware. NSA says get better kit "The modified firmware uses a built-in SSH backdoor, allowing BlackTech actors to maintain access to the compromised router without their connections being logged"
MongoDB MongoDB takes .local literally: Takes cloud DBaaS Atlas to the Edge, reveals new AI toolings "You can now deploy Atlas edge servers anywhere…that can be a factory, an oil rig, a mobile device or a sensor, all with seamless experience and integration"
cryptocurrencies Researcher hit with a Grand Jury subpoena after feds confuse crypto crook investigation with crime Sam Curry's work investigating a phishing website from his own IP address saw events escalate rapidly...
open source Open mapping is a critical resource for Petya Kangalova and that's helping in a lot of crises "Many people can at the same time, look at satellite images, choose a specific task and they can map priorities -whether it's building roads or other points of interest…"
serverless Confluent touts serverless Apache Flink, AI ambitions at "Current" Adrian Bridgwater was at Confluent's "Current" event in San Jose. He reports back on serverless Apache Flink services and a lot of AI ambitions around data streaming.
AWS Amazon swoops on AI hotshot Anthropic with $4 billion AWS to replace Google Cloud as favoured compute platform and all future Anthropic models to be offered via Amazon Bedrock
MGM Rebuilding MGM's IT will be a $100/hour Red Hat sysadmin with strong arms, on long shifts. Willingness to stack racks with 30 pounds of kit and get a Red Hat Certified System Administrator certification welcomed.
Big Interview The Big Interview: Fidelity's DevOps boss Topo Pal on bad shifts left, "love letters", more. "DevSecOps shouldn't mean that developers have to be security experts. They won't be, they can't be and it is a very bad idea to even have this expectation."
Cisco Cisco’s Splunk acquisition is risky as peers jostle, bills mount, users eye open source opportunities Splunk has a big target on its back and both established application performance monitoring rivals and upstarts are nipping at its heels.
Salesforce Salesforce faces incredulity over “net zero” claims "We believe that companies should be able to claim they’re net zero if they’re fully committed to decarbonization..."
News Signal aims to stop a quantum computer sliding into your DMs "We are augmenting our existing cryptosystems such that an attacker must break both systems..."
storage AI data storage strategies: A planetary and CTO challenge The latest GPU servers consume 6-10kW each, and most existing datacentres are not designed to deliver more than 15kW per rack. With energy and water demand...
Maps Revolutionising location data standardisation to drive the digital economy forwards The interoperability of shipping containers revolutionized the movement of goods across continents. This is what global digital mapmaking needs today.
Cybersecurity Las Vegas casino ransomware attacks: Okta in the spotlight as MGM slowly recovers "I think our biggest challenge was, and this is something we learned the hard way, was the password reset..."
Microsoft Microsoft exposed 38TB of private AI data, including passwords and secret keys Microsoft itself warns that it is "not possible to audit the generation of SAS tokens"
CIO The Big Interview: Community Fibre CIO Chris Williams "We've really stretched the use of it; I'd say it's great value..."
CI/CD CloudBees says it’s fixed janky Jenkins issues for scalability, reveals new Tekton-based cloud platform We could be in Jenkins, Kentucky...
Opinion Bringing your Microsoft workloads to AWS: Why and how you might want to do it... Microsoft Workloads run on-premises aren’t fit for purpose: High maintenance, not scalable, not agile. Is taking them to AWS the best option?
Databricks Databricks just raised a fresh $500 million from investors. Why? "We haven’t disclosed a specific timeline to reaching profitability, and we are continuing to invest aggressively"
Arm Arm's $52 billion IPO: As sales fall, RISC-V rises, will the fizz last? "SoftBank, you know, is not known as a poster child for good corporate governance"
Cybersecurity MGM Resorts’ ransomware attack started with a single phone call Social engineering allegedly led to MGM attack: $13 billion firm's cybersecurity "defeated by a 10-minute conversation"?
Oracle Larry Ellison: We’re rewriting $28 billion Cerner “a piece at a time” Comments come after a Veterans Affairs audit found that a $16 billion Cerner deployment had caused "patient harm"
utilities UK water companies go to market for open data platform Utilities want a platform “capable of enabling the easy publication of data in both a centralised and decentralised manner"