Enterprise IT
The Big Interview: Pleo CTO and Monzo veteran Meri Williams
On business continuity, microservices, and masking...
Cybersecurity
Novel cloud attack pivoted from K8s to Lambda, pulled IAM keys from Terraform
A recent attack tracked by researchers at cloud security company Sysdig saw the attackers use an exposed Kubernetes container to move laterally to the victim’s AWS account – gaining initial access by exploiting a public-facing service in a self-managed Kubernetes cluster hosted inside an AWS cloud account. The company'
Enterprise IT
Bloomberg, Man Group team up to develop open source "ArcticDB" database
"Build it or buy it?" That's been answered here...
Cybersecurity
Server backup vulnerability piggybacked to live systems
Open source bug leads to server backup bug leads to... crime.
Cybersecurity
New LastPass breach post-mortem raises questions
Attackers targeted DevOps engineers' home devices...
Enterprise IT
5 leadership lessons for CIOs from Manchester United's Erik Ten Hag
Nurture, Discipline, Analytics...
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Fracture: A taster of IT guru Jerry Fishenden's plan to fix state IT
Jerry Fishenden lays out his vision of how to fix digital government in his new book, Fracture...
Enterprise IT
A Spark of recognition: Databricks’ Dael Williamson on wet work, finops, data maturity
Look at Dael Williamson’s profile and you might wonder, briefly, how he wound up as a Chief Technology Officer: There’s the degree in molecular biology and the masters in structural biology and the research position in structural bioinformatics; here is someone perhaps trying to save the world, who
Cybersecurity
Pentagon CIOs slapped over cloud security by auditors days before 3TB of emails exposed
Days before the exposure this week of over three terabytes of military emails owing to misconfigured Azure services, the US Department of Defense (DoD)’s Inspector General had warned Pentagon CIOs that their teams were not properly reviewing documentation designed to ensure military cloud security – and running systems with unmitigated
Cybersecurity
IBM high speed file transfer software exploited by hackers
A pre-auth RCE in IBM Aspera Faspex is being exploited in the wild
Enterprise IT
Blair: Digital ID could help UK move to "proactive" service delivery
A powerful, cross-party axis between Labour and Conservative former leaders could put digital identity cards back on the table. The seemingly unlikely pairing of Tony Blair and William Hague back a new report that calls for the introduction of digital ID cards as well as broad technology-enabled changes to education,
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Big cloud service providers too often operating like bad old IBM
"I see tech vendors using customer naiveté to reproduce 1980s and 90s style lock-in and price gouging."