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
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
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"
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
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.
Microsoft
Microsoft’s new AI PCs will screenshot everything every 2 seconds
Redmond's new Arm-based line of computers feature essentially built-in keylogger for hackers and abusers: Lovely.
AI
Teenage founder's AI startup valued at $13.7 billion in $1 billion funding round
"We must build frontier data which is always pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities towards complex reasoning, agents, multimodality, and more."