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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.

Okta breach looks worse as BeyondTrust, Cloudflare, Password1 report impact, flag concerns

Concern at IAM vendor Okta's response mounts as BeyondTrust details concerns, Cloudflare calls for customers to press harder on "further information regarding potential impact to your organization"

AWS european sovereign cloud

Announcement leaves AWS lagging Azure and OCI - with Oracle already running sovereign infrastructure in Frankfurt and Madrid with “no backbone network connection to other cloud regions”

Endgame! Basel III rules put banking bosses on edge – IT impact also looms for CTOs

Rules demand "a significant uplift in terms of new data sourcing... IT leadership will need to carefully manage cultural and technical integration between internal risk and compliance teams"

Matrix hits 115 million users, as founders look to add  OpenID Connect, enterprise features

Major overhaul of the open source communications protocol and standard looms, amid steady user base growth

New Okta breach

The attackers used a "stolen credential to access Okta's support case management system"

Top 10 misconfigurations: NSA checklist for CISOs flags Active Directory Certificate Services

"In some cases, the actor may be restricted or detected by advanced defense-in-depth and zero trust implementations as well, but this has been a rare finding in assessments thus far"

CVSS 10 Cisco bug is getting exploited, has no patch

"We have also seen devices... getting the implant successfully installed through an as of yet undetermined mechanism."

Security veterans team up to tackle “Cyber Poverty”

"Because of the interconnected nature of our supply chain, the ramifications of a single incident in these underserved less cyber mature pockets can have devastating downstream impact..."

Microsoft hit with $28.9 billion tax bill after IRS audit into Puerto Rican factory "tax play"

Microsoft had "shifted at least $39 billion in U.S. profits to Puerto Rico, where... KPMG, had persuaded the territory’s government to give Microsoft a tax rate of nearly 0%."

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