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.

Leadership | Jul 29, 2021

Vittorio Cretella left school at 17 to join the Italian Army. Now he’s CIO at Procter & Gamble.

We joined him to talk about hiring, diversity, and digital transformation

Security | Jul 28, 2021

Critical Hyper-V vulnerability gave RCE in Azure -- ability to "crash" a cloud region.

CVSS 9.9 bug in Hyper-V’s virtual network switch driver vmswitch.sys detailed.

Data | Jul 23, 2021

Digitalising the UK’s energy system: 5 key takeaways from a landmark new report

Energy has a big open data problem. Policy makers are promising change, but is it fast enough?

Featured | Jul 22, 2021

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch faces extradition after court loss, as political row looms

Over to Priti Patel...

Security | Jul 20, 2021

With #HiveNightmare, Windows 10 and 11 give up all user passwords

Zero, to SYSTEM and creating new admin accounts, in a heartbeat.

Featured | Jul 19, 2021

Revealed: Over 50 TTPs of Chinese state-backed hackers APT 40

APT exfiltrated data using Dropbox API, steganography to hide hoard in GitHub

Security | Jul 16, 2021

Windows Print Spooler's comedy of errors gets deeply serious, amid new bug, multiple attacks

ANOTHER new unpatched bug in Print Spooler?

Security | Jul 13, 2021

SolarWinds customers under active attack (again) via RCE bug in file share tool Serv-U

SolarWinds doesn't know how many customers are affected...

Cloud | Jul 13, 2021

AWS turns from open source villain to hero (at least, for some Elasticsearch users)...

OpenSearch 1.0, a production-ready, Apache 2.0-licensed Elasticsearch fork lands...