Using Security Expertise to Bridge the Communication Gap Summary Mike Riemer argues that the biggest hurdle for product-focused security teams isn’t writing better code — it’s communicating the value and…
Colt Telecommunications Struggles in Wake of Cyber Incident Summary UK telco Colt Technology Services confirmed a cyber incident that began causing service disruptions on 12 Aug. The incident affected the…
Scammers turn to ‘ghost-tapping’ retail fraud to launder funds Summary Researchers at Recorded Future’s Insikt Group describe a growing money-laundering method called “ghost-tapping” used by Chinese organised criminal groups operating…
UK telecom provider Colt says outages were due to cyber incident Summary London-based Colt Technology Services said it is still recovering from a cyberattack earlier this week. After a series…
Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide Summary The Register reports that the UK government expects to spend around £9 billion on Microsoft…
Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable Summary Simon Sharwood’s On Call column tells the true tale of “Jake”, the sole sysadmin at a hospital, who was…
LLM chatbots trivial to weaponize for data theft, say boffins Summary A team from King’s College London presented research at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium showing that conversational AIs (CAIs)…
Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL Summary The Register examines why UK central government remains heavily reliant on legacy systems — many written in COBOL —…
Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline Summary Colt Technology Services, the London-headquartered multinational telco, has confirmed a “cyber incident” that prompted it to take several internal systems offline…
Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? Summary Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that the rosy cost-savings story around AI is misleading. While execs salivate at…
