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08 May 2024
National Security Agency warns against paying ransoms
By Arielle WaldmanRob Joyce and David Luber discussed how the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare exemplified the cons of paying ransom demands.
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08 May 2024
Experts highlight progress, challenges for election security
By Alexander CulafiInfosec professionals at RSA Conference 2024 discussed digital and physical security challenges for election cycles across the globe in a post-COVID landscape.
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08 May 2024
Databricks adds vector search, new LLM support to AI suite
By Eric AvidonThe data lakehouse pioneer is targeting model accuracy with the GA of vector search capabilities that help customers find the data needed to train advanced analytics applications.
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29 Jan 2024
Credit Karma preps 'Zero-touch' Argo Rollouts
By Beth PariseauThe Intuit subsidiary is in the process of moving to a homegrown event-driven progressive delivery platform and has already contributed some related code upstream.
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29 Jan 2024
Google Cloud teams up with Singapore government on AI initiatives
By Aaron TanOver 100 generative AI use cases have been tested through the AI Trailblazers programme, among other initiatives to spur AI adoption and build AI talent in the city-state
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25 Jan 2024
Cisco updates AppDynamics with Smart Agents to tackle sprawl
By Cliff SaranAs application architectures becomes more distributed, monitoring becomes increasingly complex – Cisco has a plan for simplification
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25 Jan 2024
Bugcrowd sees surge in vulnerability submissions, led by public sector
By Alex ScroxtonCrowdsourced vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty platform Bugcrowd says it saw a 151% uptick in submissions related to government and public sector organisations in 2023
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24 Jan 2024
WebKit vulnerability sparks Apple’s first major security update of 2024
By Alex ScroxtonA zero-day in the open source WebKit browser engine that powers Safari has sparked Apple’s first major patch roll-out of the new year
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24 Jan 2024
Inside Cisco’s security platform strategy
By Aaron TanRaj Chopra, senior vice-president of Cisco’s security business, outlines the company’s security platform strategy and how it brought different products together into a single platform
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24 Jan 2024
Critical vulnerability exposes Fortra GoAnywhere users
By Alex ScroxtonFortra GoAnywhere MFT users must take steps to address a newly disclosed zero-day vulnerability without delay
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24 Jan 2024
Salesforce’s bug bounty programme paid out $3m in 2023
By Alex ScroxtonEthical hackers disclosed more than 4,000 vulnerabilities to Salesforce last year through its bug bounty programme, and received over $3m in rewards
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23 Jan 2024
Docker Build Cloud claims speed boost for dev workflows
By Beth PariseauDocker ships a managed service that pushes container image builds to AWS and adds shared caches to customers' existing dev tools.
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23 Jan 2024
GitHub: Top tips to make software developers more productive
By Cliff SaranStudy highlights importance of good documentation and processes, as well as fewer work distractions
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22 Jan 2024
Upgraded Arabic large language model is twice as big
By Pat BransTechniques that were used to double the power of what was already the largest LLM for Arabic can now be applied to other languages whose native speakers do not yet have access to AI
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22 Jan 2024
Fujitsu agrees to support former subpostmasters’ families beyond financial redress
By Karl FlindersFujitsu will meet with victims of the Post Office scandal and their representatives to discuss what the IT giant can do for them beyond financial redress
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19 Jan 2024
Fujitsu boss admits to missed opportunities to prevent miscarriages of justice
By Karl FlindersConcerns of an expert witness in subpostmaster trials were ignored by Fujitsu
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19 Jan 2024
Fujitsu boss describes Post Office behaviour as 'shameful and appalling'
By Karl FlindersThe UK head of Fujitsu said he does not know why the Post Office did not reveal information about Horizon software errors to defendants during prosecutions
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18 Jan 2024
Anger sparked by TV drama forces Fujitsu to put public sector contract bidding on hold
By Karl FlindersIt is not just the UK government that has been forced to act quickly amid public anger, as a wounded Fujitsu stalls government contract bidding
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17 Jan 2024
Data on Kubernetes Community aims at K8S storage scaling solution
By Antony AdsheadDoKC works on community solutions for Kubernetes. It aims to develop storage scaling automation for the containerised platform outside the orbit of the big vendors
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17 Jan 2024
Singapore proposes governance framework for generative AI
By Aaron TanAI Verify Foundation and Infocomm Media Development Authority have proposed a governance framework for generative AI to address the risks and concerns about the emerging technology
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16 Jan 2024
Kaspersky shares Pegasus spyware-hunting tool
By Alex ScroxtonKaspersky has developed a way of easily exposing the presence of Pegasus spyware on iOS devices and believes its methodology may also help users identify other such surveillance malware
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12 Jan 2024
Post Office scandal inquiry hits mainstream after dramatic start to year
By Karl FlindersLong-running statutory public inquiry restarts with hugely increased interest following ITV’s dramatisation of the two decades-long scandal
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11 Jan 2024
Analysts anticipate fresh wave of enterprise technology M&A
By Beth PariseauCI/CD vendor Harness acquired Armory, reports surfaced of private equity takeover talks for PagerDuty, and that's just the start of more M&A to come, industry experts predict.
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11 Jan 2024
Cisco fixes high-impact flaw in unified comms platform
By Alex ScroxtonCisco unified comms customers are urged to patch a critical vulnerability in Unity Connection, a messaging and voicemail product
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10 Jan 2024
Hundreds of subpostmasters to have convictions quashed in blanket exoneration
By Karl FlindersThe government has chosen to introduce legislation that will enable it to exonerate hundreds of subpostmasters as a group
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10 Jan 2024
Windows Kerberos, Hyper-V vulns among January Patch Tuesday bugs
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft starts 2024 right with another slimline Patch Tuesday drop, but there are some critical vulns to be alert to, including a number of man-in-the-middle attack vectors
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10 Jan 2024
CES 2024: Sony announces development of spatial content creation system
By Joe O’HalloranSony is developing a device equipped with extended reality head-mounted display and controllers dedicated to interaction with 3D objects
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09 Jan 2024
Former Post Office CEO hands back CBE amid public backlash
By Karl FlindersFormer Post Office CEO hands back her CBE after public backlash following dramatisation of her role in Post Office Horizon scandal
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09 Jan 2024
‘Hero’ subpostmaster accuses government of diversion tactics through ‘weaselly’ statistics
By Karl FlindersCampaigning subpostmaster calls out government’s use of ‘weaselly’ statistics to hide its slow progress
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09 Jan 2024
Fujitsu gets stay of execution as MPs support exoneration of wrongfully convicted subpostmasters
By Karl FlindersFujitsu will have to wait until the end of the Post Office Horizon scandal public inquiry to hear how MPs will punish it
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02 Jan 2024
China’s UNC4841 pivots to new Barracuda ESG zero-day
By Alex ScroxtonThe Chinese state threat actor behind a series of cyber attacks on Barracuda Networks customers embarked on a campaign targeting the supplier’s email security products in the run-up to Christmas
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02 Jan 2024
Cloudflare eyes GenAI workloads with Workers AI
By Aaron TanCloudflare’s Workers developer platform is touted to make it easier for organisations to deploy GenAI capabilities at the edge to speed up inferencing
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27 Dec 2023
Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2023
By Aaron TanOrganisations across the region have continued to shore up their cyber security posture while investing in infrastructure to pave the way for emerging technologies like GenAI
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21 Dec 2023
Immigration clampdown could worsen UK IT skills shortage
By Brian McKennaThe UK government’s recent clampdown on immigration could exacerbate the IT skills shortage in the country, especially in web design and development
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21 Dec 2023
Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2023
By Alex ScroxtonRansomware gangs dominated the cyber criminal underworld in 2023, a year that will prove notable for significant evolutionary trends in their tactics
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20 Dec 2023
'No hiding place' for those responsible for Post Office Horizon scandal
By Karl FlindersMPs want individuals to be held to account for their roles in causing the Post Office Horizon scandal, which destroyed thousands of lives
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19 Dec 2023
DevSecOps pros prep for GenAI upheavals in 2024
By Beth PariseauGenerative AI models have been a hot topic of discussion in 2023, but their real-world impact on each of the major IT disciplines is just beginning.
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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 software development stories of 2023
By Cliff SaranThere have been two main trends driving software development this year: artificial intelligence and low-code/no-code tooling
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19 Dec 2023
Top 10 cyber security stories of 2023
By Alex ScroxtonThe past 12 months have seen the security agenda dominated by the usual round of vulnerabilities, concerns over supply chain security and more besides, but it was the chaotic state of global geopolitics that really made an impact
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14 Dec 2023
Developer burnout caused by flawed productivity metrics
By Cliff SaranSoftware development methodologies that provide a framework to improve productivity may be inadvertently leading to project delays and stress
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13 Dec 2023
Microsoft’s Christmas present for cyber teams: no zero-days
By Alex ScroxtonBarely 30 vulnerabilities, and no zero-days, have been fixed in the final Patch Tuesday drop of 2023
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13 Dec 2023
Inside the Singapore government’s cloud journey
By Aaron TanThe Smart Nation Group’s chief digital technology officer outlines the government’s cloud journey, including its approach to cloud migration and how it came to host mission-critical workloads on AWS
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12 Dec 2023
Top IT predictions in APAC in 2024
By Aaron TanGenerative AI will continue to leave its mark on many areas in business and IT, along with other trends such as sustainability, cyber security and smart factories that are expected to shape the region’s technology landscape in 2024
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11 Dec 2023
Docker adds shift-left tests in AtomicJar Testcontainers buy
By Beth PariseauDocker stressed its commitment to maintaining the Testcontainers open source project at a time when shift-left testing has become a mainstream priority for enterprise developers.
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11 Dec 2023
Atlassian releases AI capabilities for Jira and Confluence
By Mary ReinesThe new capabilities show the rising prominence of software development copilots and lay the foundation for better knowledge management in an organization.
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06 Dec 2023
Google Gemini, AWS GenAI tools face uphill battle for devs
By Beth PariseauGoogle's Gemini model claims performance advantages over GPT-4, while AWS touts foundational model choice, but Microsoft still has the advantage in developer tools, IT pros say.
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06 Dec 2023
Government launches UK-wide Cyber Explorers Cup
By Alex ScroxtonSchoolkids across the UK are being called on to team up and defeat Herbert the Hacker in a new government-backed competition
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01 Dec 2023
Post Office lawyer with his fingerprints all over IT scandal spreads blame
By Karl FlindersSenior Post Office criminal lawyer was just following orders and claims his only mistake was believing those that told him the Horizon system was robust
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28 Nov 2023
CCRC refers two posthumous subpostmaster appeals to Crown Court
By Karl FlindersCCRC refers posthumous appeals against convictions to Crown Court for first time
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28 Nov 2023
Volume of unique malware samples threatens to overwhelm defenders
By Alex ScroxtonA massive increase in malware volumes could cause problems for security teams tasked with adapting their defences against them
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27 Nov 2023
NCSC publishes landmark guidelines on AI cyber security
By Alex ScroxtonThe NCSC and its US counterpart CISA have brought together tech companies and governments to countersign a new set of guidelines aimed at promoting a secure-by-design culture in AI development
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23 Nov 2023
North Korean APTs go all in on supply chain attacks, warns NCSC
By Alex ScroxtonThreat actors linked to the North Korean regime are becoming more adept at targeting software supply chains in the service of their cyber attacks
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23 Nov 2023
Australia ups ante on cyber security
By Stephen WithersAustralia’s new cyber security strategy will focus on building threat-blocking capabilities, protecting critical infrastructure and improving the cyber workforce, among other priorities
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21 Nov 2023
The ‘application generation’ demands more from developers
By Cliff SaranThe latest Cisco AppDynamics poll of consumers has identified a new breed of app user that has emerged post-pandemic
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20 Nov 2023
Software engineers worry about speaking out
By Cliff SaranA culture of fear exists in many software teams, preventing individuals from raising concerns over problems
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17 Nov 2023
IT pros wary as Microsoft Copilot juggernaut gains steam
By Beth PariseauMicrosoft is now 'The Copilot company,' along with GitHub. But concerns linger about the accuracy of AI-generated results, code lineage and long-term job security.
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16 Nov 2023
Cancer Research UK uses AWS for payments and trial search function
By Clare McDonaldCharity Cancer Research UK has been using AWS to make its donations platform more scalable, as well as making it easier for patients to find clinical trials
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15 Nov 2023
November Patch Tuesday heralds five new MS zero-days
By Alex ScroxtonMicrosoft pushes fixes for five new zero-days in its latest monthly update
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15 Nov 2023
How Gigamon is making its mark in deep observability
By Aaron TanGigamon CEO Shane Buckley talks up the company’s ability to inspect encrypted network traffic for malicious activity, how it stands out with its deep observability capabilities and the tailwinds that are fuelling its growth
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13 Nov 2023
Shawbrook Bank slashes mortgage processing time through low code
By Karl FlindersSpecialist business lending and savings bank is using Pegasystems’ low-code platform to rewrite and automate the customer journey
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10 Nov 2023
Orange Business shifts towards digital, aims to transform SD-WAN with VMware
By Joe O’HalloranBusiness services division of leading connectivity provider unveils strategy to offer end-to-end stack of digital solutions through B2B portfolio and strikes partnership with cloud computing company for software-defined wide-area network offer
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09 Nov 2023
Visa launches artificial intelligence advisory service
By Karl FlindersVisa is giving its customers the opportunity to tap into its global network of AI experts through its AI Advisory Practice.
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08 Nov 2023
Intel exec affixes OpenSSF, CNCF open source security efforts
By Beth PariseauIntel's Arun Gupta, now governing board chair of both the CNCF and OpenSSF, discusses his plans to bring all three organizations together to improve open source security.
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08 Nov 2023
SAP touts Business Technology Platform as foundation for S/4Hana migrations
By Aaron TanSAP claims its Business Technology Platform can help customers ease their transition to S/4Hana and lay the foundation for artificial intelligence initiatives
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07 Nov 2023
Post Office disclosure failures delay Horizon scandal inquiry again
By Karl FlindersMany of the 300,000 emails unearthed could be relevant to evidence from future and past witnesses in the Post Office scandal inquiry
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07 Nov 2023
Behind the scenes, Spotify's Backstage a work in progress
By Beth PariseauSpotify-created Backstage, now a CNCF project, is popular as enterprises add developer portals to internal platforms, but setup is hard, and getting dev buy-in can be even harder.
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07 Nov 2023
Researchers ‘break’ rule designed to guard against Barracuda vulnerability
By Alex ScroxtonVectra AI researchers found that a Suricata rule designed to detect exploitation of a dangerous Barracuda Email Security Gateway flaw was not entirely effective
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07 Nov 2023
VMware consolidates AI push at Explore in Barcelona
By Antony AdsheadVMware’s vision is of ‘cloud smart’ enterprises that run on-premise, in multiclouds and in the ‘edge cloud’, with secure and compliant generative AI fuelling efficient business processes
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06 Nov 2023
NatWest taps IBM skills for generative AI
By Karl FlindersNatWest and IBM are developing generative AI capabilities to expand the capabilities of the bank’s virtual customer assistant
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06 Nov 2023
Netherlands starts building its own AI language model
By Kim LoohuisDutch government allocates €13.5m to develop an open artificial intelligence language model according to national values and guidelines.
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03 Nov 2023
Executive interview: Sergio Gago, Moody’s
By Cliff SaranWhy should companies invest in quantum computing? We speak to Sergio Gago, managing director for artificial intelligence, machine learning and quantum at Moody’s
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02 Nov 2023
IT pros size up Microsoft Radius app developer platform
By Beth PariseauAs the platform engineering era dawns, enterprises seek better ways to tie apps to distributed infrastructure across clouds. But can Azure's owner build multi-cloud consensus?
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02 Nov 2023
Admins told to take action over F5 Big-IP platform flaws
By Alex ScroxtonTwo vulnerabilities in the widely used F5 Networks Big-IP platform are now being exploited in the wild
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02 Nov 2023
SAP lays out generative AI strategy
By Aaron TanSAP is incorporating generative AI capabilities into software development and the Hana database, prioritising data privacy and use cases that drive efficiency and cost savings for customers
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01 Nov 2023
Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson on her AI Safety Summit goals
By Alex ScroxtonAs the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park takes place, Computer Weekly caught up with Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson to find out what one of the UK’s most prominent AI advocates wants from proceedings
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31 Oct 2023
SEC sues SolarWinds, alleging serious security failures
By Alex ScroxtonSolarWinds and its CISO have been charged with fraud and internal control failures by the US authorities amid allegations of a series of cyber security failings leading up to the 2020 Sunburst attacks
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31 Oct 2023
How much is enough to support those who maintain open source?
By Cliff SaranWithout the ongoing work of developers, open source projects would become stale and riddled with unfixed bugs and security issues. We look at the issues of funding and fairness
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27 Oct 2023
Google launches bug bounties for generative AI attack scenarios
By Alex ScroxtonGoogle expands its bug bounty programme to encompass generative AI and takes steps to grow its commitment to supply chain security as it relates to the emerging technology
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26 Oct 2023
LaunchDarkly feature management adds built-in workflows
By Beth PariseauLarge enterprises use feature management to cope with traffic spikes and speed up releases but must plan carefully to avoid technical debt. LaunchDarkly updates could help.
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26 Oct 2023
Rancher founders' new venture recasts Kubernetes management
By Beth PariseauWhile Rancher focused on simplifying Kubernetes management, Acorn Labs looks to remove it entirely from developer workflows by embedding it within a new kind of application image.
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26 Oct 2023
Facebook pins future on Quest 3 and AI development
By Cliff SaranParent company Meta has focused on establishing Twitter rival Threads and its new augmented reality headset Quest 3
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24 Oct 2023
Cisco hackers likely taking steps to avoid identification
By Alex ScroxtonCisco confirms that a drop in detections of devices compromised by two zero-days was likely the result of reactive measures taken by the threat actors to avoid discovery
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24 Oct 2023
Research team tricks AI chatbots into writing usable malicious code
By Alex ScroxtonResearchers at the University of Sheffield have demonstrated that so-called Text-to-SQL systems can be tricked into writing malicious code for use in cyber attacks
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24 Oct 2023
Kaspersky opens up over spyware campaign targeting its staffers
By Alex ScroxtonKaspersky has shared more details of the TriangleDB spyware that was used against its own workforce by an unknown APT group
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24 Oct 2023
NetApp ‘unified storage’ adds new ASA block storage at Insight
By Antony AdsheadLas Vegas event sees NetApp continue its evolution to hybrid cloud and data management player announce ASA C-series and Keystone and Kubernetes storage enhancements
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24 Oct 2023
OCBC to roll out GenAI chatbot
By Aaron TanSingapore’s OCBC Bank is rolling out a GenAI chatbot powered by Azure OpenAI to assist employees with writing, research and idea generation
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23 Oct 2023
Cisco pushes update to stop exploitation of two IOS XE zero-days
By Alex ScroxtonCisco releases updates to thwart exploitation of two flaws affecting users of its IOS XE software
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20 Oct 2023
Computer Weekly contributor named Godfather of UK Security
By Alex ScroxtonAdvent IM founder Mike Gillespie was among those honoured at the eighth annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards
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19 Oct 2023
Fears grow over extent of Cisco IOS XE zero-day
By Alex ScroxtonResearchers have identified spiking numbers of victims of a recently disclosed Cisco zero-day, as users of the networking supplier’s IOS XE software are urged to take defensive measures
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19 Oct 2023
Loughborough Uni to create five cyber AI research posts
By Alex ScroxtonSupported by Darktrace, Loughborough University is to recruit five doctoral researchers focusing on cross-disciplinary research in AI and cyber security
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18 Oct 2023
Prisma Cloud analytics, automation boost DevSecOps speed
By Beth PariseauPrisma Cloud's Darwin update looks to address DevSecOps communication and velocity lags with centralized analytics and by ditching tickets for automated pull requests.
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17 Oct 2023
Alert sounded over dangerous Cisco IOS XE zero-day
By Alex ScroxtonCisco warns customers using its IOS XE software of a newly discovered vulnerability that could enable a threat actor to take over their systems
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17 Oct 2023
What it takes to succeed in DevSecOps
By Aaron TanProviding engineering leadership and balancing between speed and security are some areas that organisations will need to focus on in their DevSecOps journey
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12 Oct 2023
Pulumi, HashiCorp competition expands to developer platforms
By Beth PariseauDeveloper platform choices for enterprise IT continue to proliferate as infrastructure-as-code rivals rush to create tools targeting platform engineers.
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11 Oct 2023
Exec: Key new HashiCorp Terraform feature enabled by BSL
By Beth PariseauHashiCorp Terraform Stacks will be available in the free Community Edition in part due to development funded by its recent license change, one company official says.
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10 Oct 2023
Google's DORA DevOps report warns against metrics misuse
By Beth PariseauThis year's DORA DevOps report echoes the experiences of one organization that has applied them in practice: DORA metrics can be powerful but aren't always an exact science.
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09 Oct 2023
VMware reaffirms commitment to Tanzu
By Aaron TanVMware CEO Raghu Raghuram emphasises the importance of having an infrastructure stack capable of supporting applications, with VMware Tanzu playing a pivotal role
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05 Oct 2023
Docker enters GenAI development fray with new tools
By Beth PariseauDocker jumps aboard the generative AI bandwagon with a pre-built set of tools to jump-start app development using LLMs and a Docker AI productivity tool.
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04 Oct 2023
Docker Scout GA leads 'local plus cloud' push
By Beth PariseauDocker Scout replaces open source Docker Scan with an event-driven vulnerability management system in a bid to boost the vendor's value beyond developers' local laptops.
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03 Oct 2023
The AI developer opportunity
By Cliff SaranGiven the need for new software to support digitisation, we look at how the IT industry is responding to the software developer skills shortfall
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03 Oct 2023
CIISec scores DSIT funding to expand successful CyberEPQ scheme
By Alex ScroxtonDSIT has committed to enhanced funding to expand CIISec’s CyberEPQ education programme after recording excellent results to date
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28 Sep 2023
Businesses disconnected from realities of API security
By Alex ScroxtonBusiness leaders feel confident they’ve got a handle on API security, but at the same time, incidents are through the roof, according to a report
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28 Sep 2023
Yahoo picks Intigriti to run crowdsourced bug bounty programme
By Alex ScroxtonDigital media brand Yahoo is setting up a crowdsourced bug bounty programme with ethical hacking specialist Intigriti, and is reaching out to the Capture the Flag community to participate