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.

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?

Business | Jan 04, 2021

"Don't be evil: unionise" - Alphabet, Google workers form historic union amid rising staff discontent

"Of course our employees have protected labour rights that we support..."

Cloud | Dec 29, 2020

*Cough* All your Amazon CloudFront RTMP distributions are about to be deleted.

"Happy New Year. We just deleted all your RTMP distributions. Suck it up. They were broken anyway!"

cybersecurity | Dec 22, 2020

Thin Clients, Full Fat CVSS 10 Security Vulnerabilities

Dell Wyse ThinOS 8.6 and prior versions contain a brace of CVSS 10 critical vulnerabilities, that could give a remote, unauthenticated attacker the ability to -- in Dell's own words -- "manipulate the configuration of any target specific station" and "gain access to sensitive