Federal Government
White House unveils cyber workforce initiative
The Biden Administration has introduced a new initiative that would aim to see the US government expand both its training and hiring for tech jobs
Avaya
Man admits to $88m Avaya piracy scheme
A guilty plea has been entered in the case of a business owner who sold dodgy unlock codes for telecoms devices
cyber essentials
What essentials? UK businesses remain "unaware" of NCSC cybersecurity certification
Less than 2% of UK private businesses are NCSC certified- and half of the SMEs don't even know about certification schemes
AWS
AWS to charge for dwindling supply of IPv4 addresses
AWS says that starting February 2024 it will be charging customers to run public IPv4 addresses in an effort to encourage IPv6 migration
CEO
Amidst job cut plans and digital transformation, BT appoints its first female CEO
The Telia CEO will start her term at BT at the end of January 2024
Cloud
Citi CTO spearheads new pan-industry ‘Common Cloud Controls’ project at FINOS
Citi, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, LSEG, Natwest Group, and RBC are all participating amid concerns at the opacity of public cloud security and resilience tests and controls.
News
Revisiting *that* Google outage: Fire, flooding, (then running out of water) and a “regional Spanner” failure
Fire-fighting was not helped by Global Switch’s fire suppression system “running out of water”. The incident also introduced water and soot contamination. Google Cloud’s affected racks had to be taken apart, thoroughly cleaned and reassembled before they could be restarted.
Microsoft
Three years after Slack's complaint, European Commission confirms formal Teams bundling investigation
Slack had alleged that Microsoft “created a weak, copycat product and tied it to their dominant Office product, force installing it and blocking its removal"
News
Tough new SEC cyber risk disclosure rules have left kicking and screaming in their wake
The US Chamber of Commerce had fumed that the SEC’s “unprecedented micromanagement of companies’ cybersecurity programs is misguided"
central government
Job of the Week: Chief Data Officer, HMG
Role up your sleeves, gird your loins, dust off those "outstanding influencing, negotiating and conflict resolution skills"
News
Kaspersky reports third exploited Apple zero day in 5 weeks
"Operation Triangulation" continues after the Russian security firm was hacked by a sophisticated adversary using a zero-click iOS chain...
banks
HSBC breached this banking rule 12,200 times. Regulators sigh wearily
"HSBC’s processes, systems and staff were not capable of detecting and reporting these breaches until December 2022. The inability for HSBC to determine the scale of these breaches due to the inadequacy of its systems and processes is a further concern."