Security
Over 26 billion records compromised in newly discovered trove of multiple breaches.
"Over 102.4 million records were breached via ransomware attacks on tech companies in 2023–a staggering 2,300 percent increase on 2022’s figure of 4.26 million. It’s also the highest number recorded across any industry since we began tracking confirmed ransomware attacks in 2018..."
A rewritten EU cyber resiliency act removes the biggest threats to open source but much standards work still to be done, says Linux Foundation Europe
"We will act immediately to apply our current security standards to Microsoft-owned legacy systems and internal business processes..."
There are no workarounds that remove the vulnerability, which allows unauthenticated remote command execution on vulnerable systems. A patch is available.
MI5 is off to the cloud; GCHQ is ramping up Computer Network Exploitation capabilities; MI6 needs cultural changes to get a new IT platform running smoothly...
The 2023 season was “the first season we travelled with our whole IT equipment without any server rack..."
"Enterprises are deploying a mix of technologies for secure remote access, including VPN, ZTNA, SD-WAN and SASE – on average respondents are using 2.3 different solutions, but..."
VPN appliances "all appear to have been constructed with the code equivalent of string, stamped with the word ‘secure’ and then just left to decay for 20 years..."