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Edward Targett

Edward Targett

Ed is co-founder of The Stack, He previously edited the late Computer Business Review, and earlier, Roubini Global Economics. He left school at 15 and has made a living asking "but why/how?" since.

Microsoft’s “top notch” China hack post-mortem was "troubling" speculation

"The loss of a signing key is a serious problem, but the loss of a signing key through unknown means is far more significant... Microsoft’s customers did not have essential facts needed to make their own risk assessments."

Microsoft roasted over “cascade of security failures” – authentication system utterly broken

"A corporate culture that deprioritized both enterprise security investments and rigorous risk management."

New NSA cybersecurity director Dave Luber (left)

As well as coming under immediate pressure on social media chatterati to be immediately amusing and bring his meme A-game, Luber faces other challenges too...

Rubrik IPO filinog

Data security and backup firm's SEC filing shows it sees a TAM of $36.3 billion by the end of 2024.

xz-utils Github repository disabled as Linux maintainers assess blast radius of backdoor, earlier commits

Incident suggests a state actor exploiting overstretched maintainer of an "unpaid hobby project"

Malicious backdoor, CVSS 10, slipped onto major Linux distributions

Poisoned Easter eggs for all: Apparent supply chain attack caught mercifully early…

redis fork valkey linux foundation

"Valkey will be community-driven without surprise license changes that break trust and disrupt a level open source playing field" says the Linux Foundation.

Atos carnage continues as CEO Nourdine Bihmane walks, company warns on liquidity

"Strategy misalignment"? There's been no shortage of that...

Memory is hot property amid AI boom, as Micron sells out of HBM through 2025

For LLMs “GPU RAM is actually one of our most valuable commodities. It's frequently the bottleneck, not compute…”

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