Opening Gambit: A Cloudy Day for AWS The recent AWS outage that disrupted vast swaths of the internet has once again thrust the issue of cloud dependency into the spotlight,…
Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web Summary AWS published a post-event summary explaining that Monday’s major outage started with DNS resolution problems tied to DynamoDB’s Domain…
Rethinking Load Balancing: AI Takes Charge Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the algorithms that power our technological infrastructure. Researchers at UC Berkeley have harnessed AI to evolve a load-balancing algorithm…
Berkeley boffins build better load balancing algo with AI Summary Researchers at UC Berkeley used OpenEvolve, an open-source implementation of DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve, to evolve and optimise a load-balancing algorithm for…
High-stakes poker scam used rigged card shufflers, X-ray tables, and special glasses Summary Federal prosecutors unsealed two indictments alleging a wide-ranging cheating and gambling conspiracy centred on rigged, high-stakes poker…
Sneaky Mermaid attack in Microsoft 365 Copilot steals data Summary Microsoft has patched a vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allowed indirect prompt injection via Mermaid diagrams to exfiltrate tenant…
Everybody’s warning about critical Windows Server WSUS bug exploits … but Microsoft’s mum Summary A critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-59287) affecting Windows Server versions 2012 through 2025 — only…
Shutdown Sparks 85% Increase in US Government Cyberattacks Summary Researchers report a dramatic surge in attacks targeting federal agencies and employees since the US government shutdown began on 1 October.…
How CISA Layoffs Weaken Civilian Cyber Defence Summary Alexander García‑Tobar (ValiMail CEO & co‑founder) warns that recent layoffs at CISA have come at a critical moment and materially weaken the…
Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch for Critical Windows Server Bug Summary Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to fully address CVE-2025-59287, a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows Server…
