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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.

Patch Tuesday is 20: Curl fix lands, Skype’s under attack and there’s a wormable pre-auth RCE in the mix

A CVSS 9.8, pre-auth RCE that lets an attacker execute arbitrary code without user interaction is wormable on systems where Message Queuing is enabled.

The Streaming Surgeon: Hips, headsets, privacy, and bad Wi-Fi

"People often think theatre is very scary and confrontational. It can be at times. But it's not the way we do it and I think that's why it’s a very unique experience..."

docker genai stack

Package includes Ollama, which lets you download a range of open source LLM model packages, bundling weights, configuration and data into a single portable file

ICO slaps Snap over AI chat

ICO suggests a "worrying failure" to assess privacy risks but says "no conclusion should be drawn" it issues a preliminary enforcement notice over ChatGPT-based chatbot...

mgm hack $100 million

"The Company currently believes that its cybersecurity insurance will be sufficient to cover the financial impact to its business as a result of the operational disruption..."

uk cloud market competition probe

"High profitability, a concentrated market structure and limited levels of switching are likely indicators that cloud providers are not facing sufficiently strong competitive constraints."

JPMorgan’s Global CISO urges use of Sigstore, Alpha-Omega in open source security drive

Multinational's Global CISO touts critical work being done by the OpenSSF and tools like its Security Scorecard...

The State Department is running 27,000 end-of-life systems but its CIO has been hamstrung...

Two new women in charge as CIO and CISO aim to stop the rot

Bad Behaviour and Dirty Downloads: 2.1 billion OSS packages with known vulns downloaded this year.

Strikingly, only 11% of open source projects are ‘actively maintained'. Should you be worried? Well, probably, yes.

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