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"
Financial Services
Financial services "most attacked" as hacker dwell time dwindles, tactics change
"The second most prevalent vulnerability was CVE-2022-21587, a critical unauthenticated file upload vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite..."
News
IRS faces mountain of legacy IT systems issues, risking "disruption of critical operations"
The IRS "uses more than 600 applications, many of them more than 20 years old, custom-built and loosely integrated."
AI
AI is helping hyperscalers “burn” customer money: In the real world, CIOs, spies fret
Alphabet CEO: We see "clear paths to AI monetization". GCHQ Chief Data Scientist: Beware "automation bias"
IBM
Epic court clash looms over IBM mainframe migration software
LzLabs denies licence breach claims over "reverse engineering"
Ubuntu
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS lands with 12 years of support, Active Directory, other additions
“Improved syscall performance, nested KVM support on ppc64el, and access to the newly landed bcachefs filesystem" < Do you speak the lingo?
IBM
"Red Hash"? IBM vows to run the Red Hat playbook after $6.4 billion HashiCorp buyout
Red Hat's book of hybrid cloud business is now $2.8B ARR