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Hey hackers! Grab some hardcoded Siemens crypto keys and go wild*
Per RATM: "Action must be taken. We don't need the key we'll break in"
Enterprise IT
Deutsche Bank turns to a known quantity as digital shakeup continues
Deutsche Bank has extended a contract with Kyndryl (previously IBM Infrastructure Services) to run its continental European core banking and mission critical IT infrastructures, in what the two described as one of the “largest and longest-running vendor contracts in the financial industry” at nearly 20 years together. Kyndryl will also
Enterprise IT
Eliot Horowitz wants to start a robotics revolution with Viam
Former MongoDB co-founder's latest brainchild launches public beta
CIO
The Big Interview: IFCO Systems CIO Kare Heikkila
You will likely have relied on IFCO Systems, even if you haven’t heard of them. The Munich-headquartered company provides reusable packaging for fruit, vegetables, meat, baked goods and beyond for supermarkets like Waitrose and Walmart. Its crates are used in over 2 billion shipments per year. (They typically last
Enterprise IT
US State Department names DoD veteran Dr Kelly Fletcher as CIO
The US Department of State has appointed Dr Kelly Fletcher as its new Chief Information Officer (CIO). She will lead a team of 2,700 IT professionals and oversee $2.5 billion of digital transformation programmes. Among those programmes is a recently signed $1.58 billion contract with Verizon to
Cybersecurity
Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan found guilty of concealing data breach
Note: There is no contractual indemnity clause that will cover criminal activity.
Cybersecurity
US agencies ordered to run asset discovery scans every single week
Knock Knock. Who's there? Multiple APTs, patch your shit.
Cybersecurity
Critical Akamai bug could have let hackers poison millions of major brands' websites
Absence of a bug bounty programme led to a “race against time” for customer bug bounties...
Cloud
AWS's new “Amazon File Cache” takes open source Lustre mainstream -- but it ain't cheap
It's big, it's fast and it's not cheap...
Featured
Credit Suisse crisis: Storm rages as bank eyes deeper restructuring, asset sales
Buckle your seatbelts...
Enterprise IT
The US Army is letting staff Bring Your Own Device. First up, the CIO
Yup, it's taken some heavy lifting...
Cybersecurity
Bolster your VMware ESXi security: Novel malware ecosystem identified
Malware avoids EDR, attains persistence, is highly stealthy