Microsoft
20,000+ EOL Exchange Servers are still sitting there and sucking it up
Attacks on Exchange Server Attacks in 2022 were so rife that threat groups were observed cleaning up .aspx and .bat files to remove other attackers
Citrix
Boeing shares ransomware incident TTPs as Citrix Bleed attacks ramp up
Hey criminals! Fire an HTTP GET request. Grab system memory including session cookies issued post-authentication. Don't worry about logs. Pillage and loot. Thanks, Citrix.
New Relic
New Relic warns its 15,000 customers of cyber incident
Incident comes weeks after the Application Performance Monitoring firm was taken private in a $6.5 billion buyout
NVIDIA
NVIDIA sees a sovereign AI infrastructure race – as Europe plans 24,000-chip supercomputer
"National investment in compute capacity is a new economic imperative... countries are awakening to the need to invest in sovereign AI infrastructure" says Jensen Huang
Post Office
Post Office spunks a fresh £36 million on Fujitsu Horizon after cloud migration fails
When your digital transformation failure is associated with "total corporate psychopathy, a mad Kafka-esque nightmare"
NHS
Palantir lands £330 million NHS "Federated Data Platform" contract
"Each NHS organisation will be the data controller for their ‘federated’ platform instance. The use of the data will always remain under the full control and protection of the NHS
vmware
Broadcom to close VMware buyout this week. Nervous? Consider this...
"There is a lot of anxiety about the Broadcom-VMware acquisition around pricing, support and other issues"
OpenAI
Sam Altman joins Microsoft as Nadella pounces - and OpenAI appoints former Twitch CEO
"We’ve learned a lot over the years about how to give founders and innovators space to build independent identities and cultures within Microsoft"
Ubuntu
Canonical’s newly GA “MicroCloud” aims to take a small bite out of vSphere
MicroCloud can scale from three servers to around 50-node clusters and it is lightweight enough, claims Canonical, to run on a developer laptop.
OpenAI
OpenAI abruptly fires CEO Sam Altman -- days after Microsoft briefly blocked access to ChatGPT over "security and data" concerns
Altman was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
cybersecurity
New report sheds light on “Scattered Spider”’s ability to take over identity providers
The group "register their own MFA tokens [and] add a federated identity provider to the victim’s SSO tenant and activate automatic account linking..."
developers
Code quality: Is this indicator of a well-run software business going overlooked by investors?
"The significance of code quality goes beyond mere functionality—it reflects the development team's culture and, by extension, the potential for scalability and synergy generation..."