News
"The worst security flaw in a long time" is about to land. With 20 billion curl installations, be worried
Could a pending curl vulnerability be the next Log4j?
AI
ICO slaps Snap over AI chat
ICO suggests a "worrying failure" to assess privacy risks but says "no conclusion should be drawn" it issues a preliminary enforcement notice over ChatGPT-based chatbot...
MGM
The MGM hack: A $100m hit
"The Company currently believes that its cybersecurity insurance will be sufficient to cover the financial impact to its business as a result of the operational disruption..."
Cloud
AWS, Azure face cloud competition probe over concentration, data egress concerns
"High profitability, a concentrated market structure and limited levels of switching are likely indicators that cloud providers are not facing sufficiently strong competitive constraints."
CISO
JPMorgan’s Global CISO urges use of Sigstore, Alpha-Omega in open source security drive
Multinational's Global CISO touts critical work being done by the OpenSSF and tools like its Security Scorecard...
Cybersecurity
The State Department is running 27,000 end-of-life systems but its CIO has been hamstrung...
Two new women in charge as CIO and CISO aim to stop the rot
open source
Bad Behaviour and Dirty Downloads: 2.1 billion OSS packages with known vulns downloaded this year.
Strikingly, only 11% of open source projects are ‘actively maintained'. Should you be worried? Well, probably, yes.
emerging tech
Scientists make DNA computer breakthrough
The “biocomputing” approach relies on exploiting biomolecular interactions to work – yet most systems to date have only been able to implement a specific algorithm...
open source
Buffer overflow bug gives root on potentially millions of Linux boxes
Do you, or do you not, need to get your knickers in a twist? Well, that depends on your risk tolerance..
Private 5G
The Ryder Cup: A "travelling circus" replete with private 5G and 800 Wi-Fi 6E points
Michael Cole, CTO of the European Tour group, points to importance of private 5G, as HPE rolls out solar-powered
Cybersecurity
Progress Software blasts “irresponsible” POC disclosure for CVSS 10 bug amid attacks
A fair gripe, or shooting the messenger?
CTO
MongoDB hires AWS veteran Jim Scharf as new CTO
Rapidly growing company had struggled to find the perfect CTO fit after co-founder Eliot Horowitz's departure.