Cybersecurity Single host saw 70,000 servers hit with Ebury backdoor Malware operators “have established a significant presence in data centers worldwide”
slack Slack privacy furore: Company updates legals, says no customer data used to train genAI. Communicating RAG/ML is hard. Engineering, legal and communications need to sit down and thrash this out in a growing number of companies.
slack Slack is scraping your messages and files to develop AI by default "To develop AI/ML models, our systems analyse Customer Data (e.g. messages, content and files) submitted to Slack..."
Members only OpenAI What a cluster! OpenAI's lead engineer quits. Fresh hire seeks monster-Kubernetes wranglers
News AWS’s new CEO started as an intern: Faces slowing growth, AI battle Spitting feathers about an obsession with stochastic parrots? Matt Garman's view is likely to be customer-shaped.
meta A requiem for Workplace by Facebook: The CIO’s leftfield choice "It became a Fortune 500-heavy, frontline-friendly business by accident. We thought only tech companies would use Workplace, until Clay Johnson, back then CIO of Walmart, told us he wanted Workplace for 100% of their employees"
Oracle Oracle goes vegan: Dumps Terraform for OpenTofu Oracle E-Business Suite tells customers to shift to latest update built on open source. We guess OpenTofu is enterprise-ready!
UK government UK.gov ministers clam up on just how decrepit their IT systems are Succession of secretaries serve up cut and paste answers on progress identifying "red-rated" systems
TikTok TikTok promises AI labels, as its lawyers fight “unconstitutional” divestment Act ByteDance spins up new “Influence Operations Intelligence” team in a further bid to head off complaints.
ransomware Fresh Black Basta TTPs revealed as CISA says CNI hit Ransomware group using "Backstab" to kill EDR processes.
AI UK’s new supercomputer comes online, awaits further 5,280 GPUs Government has also joined Europe's EuroHPC programme; encourages researchers to tap large pot of cash.
Members only DWP A hard reset: UK’s digital “Pension Dashboard Programme” stumbles Costs climb $54 million as government department calls for project owner to “develop a deliverable plan” with “robust governance”
Wales UK's first national SOC opens in Wales -- local authorities encouraged to onboard 18 local authorities along with fire and rescue services to get onboarded to centrally funded Security Operations Centre.
healthcare One of the US's largest hospital providers, Ascension, fired IT staff in a cost-cutting drive; now it’s sucking up a cyber attack "Unusual activity on select technology network systems" causes nationwide medical chaos as doctors lose access to EMR.
AI Microsoft just released an “air-gapped” LLM for spies: GCHQ doesn't sound wild about the tech... "Every time someone breathlessly gets excited about how LLMs do reasoning, it turns out it was..."
boomi Boomi boss says AI means enterprise apps must learn to reason or die Leads users to the mile high city to prep for AI boom
Zscaler Zscaler breach: Says single test server exposed, downplays risk "No impact or compromise to our customer, production and corporate environments" -- but were credentials stolen?
Cisco $100m in fake Cisco kit running "unauthorised modifications" made it into sensitive military installations, businesses "Unauthorized modifications to both the hardware and the software of these devices..."
Lockbit Lockbit “leader” revealed, as indictment suggests Boeing was hit with a $200m ransom demand "The average number of monthly LockBit attacks has reduced by 73% in the UK since February’s action..."
Microsoft Microsoft announces long-awaited “external authentication methods” for Entra ID EAMs require at least a Microsoft Entra ID P1 license but will let customers plug a wider range of third-party identity providers directly into Microsoft's backbone identity systems.
OpenAI OpenAI will pay to scrape Stack Overflow data; surface it with links That's the sound of a lifeline being thrown...
Microsoft Microsoft unleashes new Deputy CISOs, will tie leadership compensation to security AWS’s CISO sniffs that “our security culture starts at the top”