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.

Security | Jan 08, 2021

Fresh warning to businesses over rising "Egregor" ransomware threat.

Not an executable, but a DLL executed using Windows’ rundll32.exe utility. To evade sandbox detection it only...

Cloud | Jan 07, 2021

Serverless row erupts as "sneaky" cloud credentials shift triggers user concerns.

"Most people would never happen on this readme..."

ESG/ClimateTech | Jan 07, 2021

Climate risk data is a hot mess. These open source pioneers want to set things straight.

"This is a thorny problem that we have to solve"

Featured | Jan 07, 2021

Dr Michael Gorriz, Group CIO, Standard Chartered, on going all-in on the cloud in 2021.

"With core banking, we plan to have 15 countries in the cloud by the end of 2021"

Security | Jan 07, 2021

Security experts warn over federal network risk following storming of US Capitol

"The first port of call will be to count inventory..."

Security | Jan 06, 2021

SolarWinds update: US intelligence community says attack likely Russian in origin - confirms circa 9 gov't agencies hacked after supply chain compromise

"Compromise will... require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate"

Enterprise IT | Jan 05, 2021

Puppet CEO Yvonne Wassenaar is gearing up to take the company public. Here's where she's focussing attention.

"People tend to commingle public cloud with cloud native..."

Featured | Jan 05, 2021

5 things to know about the CIA's website redesign, from a Gucci connection to a font row.

The designer's previous clients include Kanye, Gucci, Red Bull.

cybersecurity | Jan 05, 2021

There's a critical bug in this router: but the vendor doesn't want to know.

Plus ça change plus c'est la même chose?