ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Belgian defence ministry admits attackers accessed its computer network by exploiting Log4j vulnerability

(2021/12/21)

Perpetrators' ID unknown, however



Nottingham University awards cloud finance and HR deal in £29.75m deal 2.5 years after Unit4 upgrade

(2021/12/21)

Meanwhile, search for service partner stalls after early engagement over possible £80m contract



How Kubernetes lowers costs and automates IT department work

(2021/12/21)

75% of global companies will have started using container applications in their production environments by 2022



UK National Crime Agency finds 225 million previously unexposed passwords

(2021/12/21)

Shares them with Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned after sweeping them up from ‘compromised cloud storage’



Developer creates ‘Quite OK Image Format’ – but it performs better than just OK

(2021/12/21)

Open source, offers fast, lossless compression, and has a very charming name



Diagnosis confirmed: Oracle has a case of healthcare cravings, bought Cerner for $28.3bn as the cure

(2021/12/21)

Deal will see Cerner's systems shifted to the Big Red Cloud and medicos given hands-free voice interface



TikTok tops Google to win Cloudflare’s 2021 traffic ratings

(2021/12/21)

Other Chinese properties also doing very well



The data must flow: America's 'Team Telecom' backs switch-on of Google and Meta's US-APAC undersea cable

(2021/12/21)

Who's TT when it's at home? The DoJ, Defense dept, and Homeland Security



US bags Russian accused of bagging millions after stealing pre-release financial filings

(2021/12/20)

Swiss cough up accused crim while Russia is 'deeply disappointed'



Online retailers delaying sales of Raspberry Pi 4 model until 2023, thanks to a few good chips getting scarce

(2021/12/20)

Santa leaving coal in enthusiasts' stockings



Sage to acquire remaining stake in ecommerce platform Brightpearl for £225m

(2021/12/20)

Plans afoot to integrate financial management with retail



Police National Computer not pwned by Clop ransomware crims, insists Home Office

(2021/12/20)

Scottish MSP Dacoll was hit, however



Luxembourg judge hits pause on Amazon's daily payments of disputed $844m GDPR fine

(2021/12/20)

Box shifter argues it's not clear what it is supposed to change



Malaysia tweaks copyright law to hit streamers of copyright-infringing content

(2021/12/20)

Those enabling piracy may be guilty until they prove otherwise



Log4j and Omicron: Brothers in harm, mothers of invention

(2021/12/20)

That which does not kill us can still ruin our Christmas



Wi-Fi not working? It's time to consult the lovely people on those fine Linux forums

(2021/12/20)

It's all open source's fault! Or is it?



How to keep on top of cloud security best practices

(2021/12/20)

Trend Micro outlines common misconfigurations and how to avoid them



Veeam to productise in-house Salesforce backup tools - private beta already under way

(2021/12/20)

Major update has passed quality control and will catch up to platform and app updates



VMware 2FA flaw can divulge that vital second credential to malicious actors

(2021/12/20)

Plus: Deep dive into the NSO Group's zero-click exploit and 'Hack the DHS!'



The monitor boom may have ended, says IDC

(2021/12/20)

WfH kit has all been bought, but the pressure is now on to upgrade



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