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Edward Targett

Edward Targett

Ed is a co-founder of The Stack. He previously edited Computer Business Review. He has also covered energy markets. He started his journalism career on local papers. He left school at 15 and has made a living asking "but why?" ever since.

Hackers <3 VPN bugs: Fix this pre-auth RCE bug in SonicWall VPNs asap

Patch, patch, patch...

Bank of England launches hunt for a permanent CIO

The Bank of England has begun its hunt for a permanent new Chief Information Officer (CIO) -- arguably one of the most exciting, if uniquely challenging CIO roles recently advertised in the UK and beyond. The recruitment comes after CIO Robert Elsey left this summer after six years, for a

1 mainframe, 2 critical databases, 43 police forces, 1 big headache

"Most important law enforcement technology system in the UK" migration is...

Sweeping AWS outage blamed on "network device impairment"

"This issue is affecting the global console landing page, which is also hosted in US-EAST-1"

Microsoft says storing digital data on synthetic DNA now viable

As we know from mammoths, it certainly lasts a long time...

The Great Chip Shortage: From boilers, to the cloud, what does 2022 bring?

Seeking a new gas boiler for The Stack’s bracingly cold HQ, we were told this week that the model sought was unavailable. Why? A global semiconductor shortage that has caused shortages in unexpected industries, quoth the gasman. Boilers increasingly use wireless control units that, like most things digital, require

AWS unveils a new mainframe modernisation toolkit at Re:Invent, but what's really new?

But where's the truly new stuff here?

New Lloyd's cyber insurance clauses: buyers, make sure you read the "war" exclusions closely

"Underwriters should consider... the impact on exposures across the portfolio."

Cloud Postgres honeypots breached within seconds -- and your IP filter is unlikely to save you

IP-blocking won't do much...

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