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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.

UK data watchdog wants DPOs to adopt PETS (without fur)

Homomorphic encryption, synthetic data, and other privacy enhancing technologies could help data leaders ensure “data protection by design and by default” says ICO

Microsoft DDoS attacks hit Azure and likely Outlook but Redmond's coy with the details

Back in 2021 Microsoft boasted of shielding a customer from a 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack originating from 70,000 sources. It has not shared such detail on this successful incident that it its services...

new MOVEit vulnerability and federal agencies hacked

Hackers "often breach the Department’s defensive perimeter and roam freely within our information systems"

11 UK water utilities are joining forces on Open Data as an ambitious project wins backing

"Progress in developing open data enablers (such as data infrastructure, data culture and capabilities, collaboration) has been limited across the water sector" warns the regulator.

IBM just made a major leap forwards in quantum computing

"These coherence times are unprecedented for superconducting processors of this scale and allow the circuit depths accessed in this work..."

Hackers could have taken over every single .ai domain

"It is clear that the internet is so, so brittle" and possibly held together with duct tape

VMware zero day used to hack defence, tech companies

The threat group has also used a wide range of attacker scripts to get vpxuser credentials, enumerate ESXi hosts and their guest VMs, and manipulate connected ESXi host firewall rules in order to steal data.

MFA is no protection against this critical new Fortinet vulnerability, CVE-2023-27997

"It is a pre-auth RCE [and] has been proven to be exploitable in a consistent manner; we found it during a Red Team engagement and have exploited it remotely..."

HMG eyes £800 million new Open Banking framework

HMG makes a lot of payments: The Department for Work and Pensions alone makes 2.5 million+ daily that are worth £3.7 billion per week.

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