NCSC
UK’s NCSC starts using honeypots to detect, smash brute force campaigns
As well as setting up honeypots to identify and target brute force attacks, the NCSC also took down 24,407 web shells in 2022.
MOVEit
Fuzzy Thinking: Yet more critical SQL Injection bugs in MOVEIt Transfer
You're tired? Everyone's tired. Just patch promptly please.
QKD
HSBC joins BT, Toshiba's commercial Quantum Key Distribution network - but beware hackers with lasers
Dust off your math, review the literature with some strong coffee; envision a future fresh from a William Gibson novel...
HMG
One SaaS to rule them: HMG takes £215m ERP contract for 29 agencies to market. Winner takes all.
A "combined single instance SaaS Solution along with a Systems Integrator" please -- but you can propose some different contracting models and bid teams...
cloud security
Reimagining cloud-native security for developers and platform owners
Even with ‘traditional’ configuration of resources in the cloud - and Kubernetes becomes a more extreme example of this – what is crystal clear is that security cannot stay outside of the development and DevOps teams."
Cybersecurity
Malvertising: Threat actors are duping downloaders using... Google Ads and SEO
Threat actors are using SEO to trick users into downloading ransomware.
retail
Nike hits 500 million app users
"Our fastest-growing channel" says CEO and former technology executive John Donahoe
vulnerabilities
This critical vulnerability is an “open door into your network” and being exploited. Why didn’t RUCKUS Networks register a CVE?
CVE-2023-25717 is being exploited and affected products have been pulled into a new botnet...
GovTech
CivTech: Scotland to digitize licensing, opens up tech spend to SMEs
Scotland's government has announced nine digitization tenders worth £10 million for its CivTech challenge.
Snowflake
Snowflake is launching a fully managed container service: Just don't say "Kubernetes"...
Customers will be able to run containerised applications inside Snowflake, with the company provisioning Kubernetes clusters. "We want to make Snowflake the iPhone for data applications" says co-founder Benoit Dageville.
Snowflake
5 key announcements from Snowflake Summit 2023
Improved Apache Iceberg integrations (managed and unmanaged); support for containerised applications as a managed service inside Snowflake (hello, Kubernetes) and more...
machine learning
With $1.3 billion MosaicML acquisition, Databricks sets itself up for open source generative AI fight
Databricks has agreed the deal just weeks after releasing Dolly 2.0, a 12 billion parameter open source language model, as a battle begins for dominance of open source generative AI workflows and platforms.