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.

Security | Apr 19, 2022

GitHub hacked, npm data stolen after 0auth tokens stolen in upstream breach

GitHub hacked after Heroku, Travis-CI 0auth tokens stolen in upstream attack

Security | Apr 14, 2022

A million Microsoft machines exposed to a zero click, CVSS 9.8 bug

Over a million Microsoft machines appear potentially exposed to a wormable critical new vulnerability, CVE-2022-26809 in Microsoft's ubiquitous remote procedure call (RPC) runtime library. (RPC is as an inter-process communication mechanism for data exchange and functionality invocation in a different process -- a process which can be on

Security | Apr 12, 2022

NSA reports 1 bug under attack, Chinese firm 36, as Patch Tuesday lands with 0days, drama

It's back, it's big, and it's bad. April Patch Tuesday brings 145 vulnerability fixes from Microsoft -- the highest number in 19 months -- including a trio of remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in Hyper-V and a brace of critical (CVSS 9.8) bugs

Enterprise IT | Apr 11, 2022

Docker launches CLI command to pull a Software Bill of Materials