Latest articles by Richard Speed
Electoral Commission hit by ‘complex’ 15-month cyber attack
News Cyber criminals, who first breached the organization’s systems in August 2021, were identified in October last year
HPE CFO Tarek Robbiati appointed RingCentral CEO
News Robbiati departs after almost five years at HPE
GDPR fines just 6% of the total cost of data breaches
News Costs are surging as tickbox compliance distracts organizations from proper security
OpenAI quietly unveils GPTBot dedicated web crawler
News Website administrators have the power to prevent GPTBot from collecting information
GitHub debuts Copilot tool making it easier to give credit to developers
News Developers to be shown repository and license information for AI-suggested code matches
Top 12 most-exploited security vulnerabilities revealed by national cyber security agencies
News Cyber leaders from the Five Eyes alliance said attackers favor older vulnerabilities rather than new ones
Software security ‘overhauled for the better’ thanks to US legislation
News The requirements around necessitating a software bill of materials have driven positive changes in both the US and UK
Ubuntu shifts to four-week update cycle
News Critical fixes will also come every two weeks, mitigating the issues involved with releasing prompt patches on the old three-week cadence
Cyber attacks in the cloud take less than ten minutes to launch
News Researchers said the time it takes to attack the cloud is “light years” quicker than traditional scenarios
World Wide Web Day: Fond memories, business success, history, and more
News World Wide Web Day is back again and we're taking a look at the technology that changed everything
Report: Google Cloud Platform is the most commonly misconfigured big-three cloud platform
News Little separated GCP and Azure, but AWS fared markedly better according to the latest figures
Capita CEO to be replaced by AWS exec
News Jon Lewis is leaving Capita after more than five years
Conversational AI driving contact center market growth
News Billions to be spent on digital assistants as businesses augment human agents
Why is ASUS reviving Intel’s NUC mini-PC line?
News The diminutive PC is to rise again while analysts look for the business case
Wikipedia co-founder warns that the USA could run away with AI development
News Jimmy Wales and OpenUK fear EU regulations could stifle open-source AI
Splunk .conf23: All the announcements from the product keynote
Live Blog Live coverage of Splunk's product keynote at .conf23
Splunk adds AI and edge hardware to its observability product line-up
News Generative AI brings natural language to SPL, and ML toolkit is updated
Slackware celebrates 30 years in the Linux distribution world
News The veteran distribution is remembered fondly by long-time Linux users, despite its decreasing popularity
AlmaLinux follows Oracle in ditching RHEL compatibility
News Application binary compatibility is now the aim with 1:1 now dropped
Can Oracle really be Linux's knight in shining armor?
Opinion The self-proclaimed champion of open source freedom would like you to forget about its history
Kubernetes on AWS targeted by hackers abusing legitimate pentesting tools
News Experts believe the campaign is going to develop further, expanding attacks to other cloud providers
OpenAI and Meta named in AI copyright complaints
Authors claim works were copied “without consent, without credit, and without compensation”
InfluxData customers surprised by unexpected cluster closure
Users missed notifications of impending region removal
