News
Despite the low sophistication of the group’s toolset, it is a threat to governments in Europe because... a significant number of internet-facing applications are not regularly updated although they are known to contain vulnerabilities.”
meta
CapEx to hit up to $35 billion “with growth driven by investments in servers, including both non-AI and AI hardware
ransomware
Both blunt and more advanced social engineering approaches used for initial access; the group also has sophisticated hands-on-keyboards capabilities and a diverse toolset.
data breaches
Concern at IAM vendor Okta's response mounts as BeyondTrust details concerns, Cloudflare calls for customers to press harder on "further information regarding potential impact to your organization"
Microsoft
Copilots are everywhere as part of Microsoft's "platform transition" in the new world of AI.
AI
AI, says Microsoft, is "redefining our role in business applications” with partners adding Copilots as a “process transformation layer" on top of existing systems.
AWS
Announcement leaves AWS lagging Azure and OCI - with Oracle already running sovereign infrastructure in Frankfurt and Madrid with “no backbone network connection to other cloud regions”
Banking
Rules demand "a significant uplift in terms of new data sourcing... IT leadership will need to carefully manage cultural and technical integration between internal risk and compliance teams"
Matrix
Major overhaul of the open source communications protocol and standard looms, amid steady user base growth
ransomware
"VPNs pose a threat to enterprise security. They create a path in the network perimeter and provide access to network resources after authentication..."
Azure
Upstream utility disturbance triggers brief bout of sweating with "a small amount of storage nodes" needing to be recovered manually in the wake of the Azure incident,
Uber
The shift has teed it up for the ongoing cloud migration with autoscaling and efficiency efforts and says the new platform means “service teams are largely distanced from the infrastructure detail of this transition.”