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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.

Messaging Layer Security (MLS) standard published as RFC 9420 by the IETF

Here’s what you need to know about Messaging Layer Security (MLS) as it becomes an official standard in a move welcomed by AWS, Android, Cisco, Matrix and many more.

Eight years in, £2 billion spent, and nothing to show bar a big fat interoperability hole

Astonishingly the Home Office, already under pressure over interoperability challenges “does not know how many vendors provide" control room systems across 108 service stations...

UK corporate insolvencies spike to the highest levels since 2008

"Zombie companies are likely to be early casualties of rising interest rates. However, if their demise frees up staff and properties for use by more profitable companies, the long run effect could be a boost to UK productivity..."

Microsoft strengthens key storage after China incident – admits “validation error in Microsoft code”

Redmond has since "substantially hardened key issuance systems... this includes increased isolation of the systems, refined monitoring of system activity, and moving to the hardened key store used for our enterprise systems..."

Critical SonicWall vulnerabilities "extremely attractive" - central firewall hub needs urgent patching

Multiple critical unauthenticated SQL injection bugs and hard-coded credentials as well as command injection, and file upload bugs need urgent patching.

Q&A: NATO's first CIO Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer on priorities and progress

"NATO finds the organically grown ‘IT garden’ in need of some pruning, cleanup, and restructuring. My focus is to pivot to a centrally anchored Enterprise Architecture..."

This Microsoft zero day is under active attack and there’s no patch

Happy Patch Tuesday: Have some critical SAP vulnerabilities affecting pretty much every internet-facing product whilst you're at it...

Edward Snowden speaking at Websummit 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal.

US companies will be able to join the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework “by committing to comply with a detailed set of privacy obligations" -- but will it be back in court soon?

Amazon to UK regulator: “AWS does not charge ‘egress fees’”

You say "potato", I say sending data across a proprietary global network kept with an intentionally low network utilisation rate is not an act of charity...

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