cyber risk
New metrics for Operational Technology exposure include whether the "consequences of the vulnerability meet definition of IEC 61508 consequence categories of "marginal," "critical," or "catastrophic."
Microsoft
Back in 2021 Microsoft boasted of shielding a customer from a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack originating from 70,000 sources. It has not shared such detail on this successful incident that it its services...
MOVEit
Hackers "often breach the Department’s defensive perimeter and roam freely within our information systems"
open data
"Progress in developing open data enablers (such as data infrastructure, data culture and capabilities, collaboration) has been limited across the water sector" warns the regulator.
domains
From .zip firestorm to .killedbygoogle
cybersecurity
Attackers demonstrated such sophisticated persistence capabilities that Barracuda and Mandiant have urged users to dump affected appliances irrespective of patch level.
Quantum computing
"These coherence times are unprecedented for superconducting processors of this scale and allow the circuit depths accessed in this work..."
registry
"It is clear that the internet is so, so brittle" and possibly held together with duct tape
AWS
AWS admitted that “customers may also have experienced issues when attempting to initiate a Call or Chat to AWS Support” during the incident. What happened to recent architectural changes designed to avoid this?
vmware
The threat group has also used a wide range of attacker scripts to get vpxuser credentials, enumerate ESXi hosts and their guest VMs, and manipulate connected ESXi host firewall rules in order to steal data.
GOV.UK
Government promises a new "National Biosurveillance Network" that would join up "syndromic, epidemiological and promising environmental surveillance capabilities" in a new "Biothreats Radar" but promised funding is far from huge...
Oracle
A new cuddly Oracle has *also* been busy miniaturising its infrastructure to do more with less, and can now run OCI from just 10 racks, says Safra Katz