Microsoft has publicly confirmed that a potentially dangerous flaw in the Azure public cloud platform – which was the subject of a full and frank attack on the firm’s vulnerability reporting and disclosure processes by Tenable CEO Amit Yoran last week – has been fully addressed for all affected users. Microsoft had already told […]
Replace the ordeal of hardware admin with the insight of the cloud – that’s the benefit promised to customers that deploy HPE’s Alletra MP storage arrays with HPE GreenLake. Alletra MP, launched in April, is based on a scale-out architecture of Proliant servers chassis and Aruba switches with nodes that can be compute only […]
Despite their best efforts to get on top of the problem, some of the UK’s biggest retail banks continue to find their brands being abused and spoofed by cyber criminal fraudsters and scammers, according to data compiled by BrandShield, a supplier of brand protection technology services. BrandShield’s researchers set out to explore the breadth […]
The Tackling the software skills crunch study from Freeform Dynamics recently found that a fifth of organisations consider their development tools, processes and methods not fit for purpose. A further 22% anticipate these will become problem areas going forward. The majority of the 50 senior IT leaders and managers surveyed for CIO WaterCooler employ software […]
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) stands accused of “paying lip service” to smaller suppliers after embarking on a revamp of the “underused” Cloud Compute Framework to make it more accessible to SMEs. The government’s procurement arm is inviting submissions from prospective suppliers for the £1.35bn Cloud Compute 2 framework until 21 August 2023, but […]
German SAP user group Deutschsprachige SAP-Anwendergruppe (DSAG) has expressed concerns over the software supplier’s latest news about product enhancements. The user group said SAP’s decision to make enhancements available to cloud customers only would have an immediate impact on existing on-premise customers. According to a transcript of SAP’s second-quarter 2023 results, posted on the […]
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has credited a shift in its customers’ cloud-spending priorities as playing a pivotal role in helping the e-commerce giant post a better than expected set of second quarter results. The results period, which covers the three months to 30 June 2023, saw Amazon report a revenue of $134.4bn for Q2, […]
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), alongside its Five Eyes partner agencies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US, have released details of the 12 most exploited vulnerabilities of 2022, with the likes of Log4Shell and ProxyShell still riding high. The collective said their list served as a warning about the importance of […]
Two and a quarter years after President Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) to harden the US’ cyber security defences in the wake of high-profile attacks on SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange and Colonial Pipeline, research produced by Sonatype has revealed that the mandate to improve software supply chain security has spurred action on this side […]
NHS Lanarkshire has been issued a reprimand by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after 26 staff at the trust used a WhatsApp group to share patient data, including names, phone numbers and addresses, on over 500 occasions between April 2020 and April 2022. Staff at the trust, which oversees three hospitals near Glasgow in […]