News NHS will fail to count death toll of London hospital cyberattack, CEO warns "Right now, *no one* has died from a cyberattack that has targeted or shut down a hospital, but actuarial data shows that more than 300 people *probably* died as a result of WannaCry"
CIO The Big Interview: City of Fort Lauderdale CIO Tamecka McKay On recovering from ransomware and floods; getting closer to the business, and prioritising investment with tight budgets.
News Adobe joins Microsoft in admitting it's now basically spyware Updated terms give Adobe the right to “access your content through both automated and manual methods”.
Members only Databricks Databricks' new open data type wins praise from Goldman's CDO But Apache Hudi chief sounds a cautionary note over this week's $1 billion "Tabular" acquisition
Veeam Veeam bites the bullet, embraces Linux Also new: Veeam Data Cloud Vault, and forthcoming support for MongoDB, EntraID backups.
Monzo Monzo finally turns a profit, ramps up tech spend £18.5m The challenger bank has made big investments in tech and is committed to building its own native systems to own every part of its stack
Veeam Amid ransomware epidemic, backup and security pros need to get closer "You have to get contained or they’ll discover and wipe your backups"
NYSE Software update bug triggers brief NYSE chaos, market feed data centre failover "CTA failed over to the secondary data center, which is operating on the previous version of the software."
Snowflake Snowflake: CrowdStrike and Mandiant say we're clean "This appears to be a targeted campaign directed at users with single-factor authentication"
hugging face Hugging Face left with split lip after someone punches way into Spaces secrets "We pledge to use this as an opportunity to strengthen the security of our entire infrastructure"
Snowflake Snowflake warns over “rapeflake” data breaches "The user must be left in the disabled state for 6 hours to fully invalidate any possible unauthorized access via this ID token feature."
vulnerabilities Check Point vulnerability far worse than thought – exploited in wild since April 106,000 customers publicly exposed, initial searches suggest.
WithSecure Deepfake CEO scams overblown - for now at least WithSecure CRO warns on post quantum cryptography, as mid-sized firms struggle with attacks on the edge
Sponsored The Big Interview - Pure Storage Founder and CTO John “Coz” Colgrove “I've talked to some of the largest companies in the world who say they budget their data centres in watts not dollars. They’ve got money flowing out of their ears, but they cannot get the power.”
cybersecurity The Big Interview: Eclypsium CEO Yuriy Bulygin An attacker shift toward black box appliances and lower layers of IT infrastructure has left organisations with a huge security gap
Cybersecurity Turf wars? NIST to fix NVD backlog by September – insists it’s right agency to run vulnerability database Update comes after CISA started enriching CVEs itself…
Cybersecurity EU shows "a complete lack of security thinking" says former Estonian president Estonian ex-prez Ilves and Columbia Law prof deliver stark warning to cyberpros
cybersecurity New North Korean threat group seen deploying custom ransomware Multiple Fortune 500 firms breached. Threat group uses remote IT staff, social engineering, trojanised npm packages, even a poisoned "tank game"
openuk The UK election manifestos and the importance of a tech mission "The parties could do worse than take a look at The Open Manifesto..."
central government Home Office may put child abuse database on the cloud "... it is now considered that removing these restrictions can be compliant with data protection requirements."
Banking A Citi popup showed a trader 711 alerts: They clicked it away – and generated $196 billion in trading orders by mistake 90% of controls on one trading desk were manual and key processes including trade pricing were "conducted manually, predominantly, in Excel spreadsheets..."
Kubernetes Containerise everything? What Nutanix’s evolution says about the changing face of IT – and the rise of the platform engineer The Stack spoke with the virtualisation specialist’s CEO and CTO
Members only google cloud Google praises UniSuper’s CIO after GCP error deleted $124 billion firm’s entire private cloud Post-mortem praises Aussie fund's good third-party backups, “speed and precision” from CIO’s team
Cybersecurity "Untrue": Zscaler CEO shoots down Broadcom buyout rumours Anonymous Substack post with AI signs put the fear of Tan in Zscaler staff
NVIDIA Jensen Huang: There’s 20,000 AI startups wanting our kit NVIDIA shrugs off analyst concerns about depreciating assets amid pace of platform evolution.