The Stack

IOCs?

Hacker used DeepSeek to create LangFlow exploit Over 500 instances are publicly exposed and attacks are happening in the wild

Hacker used DeepSeek to create LangFlow exploit

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Are we treating ransomware like it's sexually transmitted? "Shrouded in shame, embarrassment, and discrimination, creating stigma with serious consequences at both the societal and individual levels…”

Retailers are treating #ransomware like a sexually transmitted infection

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Rattled Microsoft promises EU cloud contingency plans Redmond is "listening closely to the views of European governments and leaders."

Rattled Microsoft promises EU cloud contingency plans amid fear fears of weaponisation by Trump.

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#AWS is dominating UK gov't spending.

In fact departments spent more directly on Gartner than on Microsoft!

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Fortinet voted “most trusted” cybersecurity firm We do SAST, we do DAST, we do fuzzing, dontcha know?

#Fortinet voted "most trusted" cybersecurity company says its CEO. www.thestack.technology/fortinet-mos...

Gelsinger invests in British AI hardware startup Fractile "Five years ago the world of computing was boring..."

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger invests in British AI hardware startup Fractile. A real coup for this startup...

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Limp stands it up as Bezos shoots load into space Launch sets Blue Origin up to test core flight, ground systems, and operational capabilities of its "space tug"

You can take the hack out of the local rag, but...

p.s. What a great surname for the CEO of a company flinging great erect rockets into space. Who says nominative determinism is real?

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Unwiring Whitehall? HMG is facing a CIO exodus “A digital minister asked a CTO to colour code their Word documents…”

CIOs and CTOs are getting the hell out of Whitehall.

I asked some why.

(My favourite vignette: A 'Digital Minister' asking a government CTO to add colours to their Word document)

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Hey @thestack.bsky.social, kudos on the headline.

:)

Approximate exposure to this week's #Ivanti 0day.

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h/t @shadowserver.bsky.social

NHS England left with a large CIO-shaped hole Respected Chief Information Officer to call it a day in March

NHS England left with a large CIO-shaped hole as Quinn quits

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#cio

Sellafield spends £2.6m renewing Darktrace licences Two years of “maintenance and support”, and 10 days of professional services annually on top...

Sellafield Ltd., sued for poor cybersecurity, is renewing its Darktrace licenses to the tune of £2.6m.

www.thestack.technology/sellafield-d...

Cracking piece Ian. Enjoyed that. Even on a Monday when I got out of bed at 10am and then did some sit-ups.

GCHQ is hiring teenage hackers to take on China and others: At £25,856 "We should kick you out of Five Eyes for that sh*t"

GCHQ is hiring teenage hackers to take on China and others: At £25,856. Some #infosec pros are steaming. Are they right? www.thestack.technology/gchq-is-hiri...

Strong lede.

EU's largest retailer and Google serve "sovereign" Workspace Hosted in the Schwarz Group's data centres; client-side encryption with BYOK? Google Workspace goes native.

OK... (11 months later).

Might share a few stories from The Stack here.

So, pssst: Want a buy a German retailer-hosted, client-side encrypted version of Google Workspace?

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Hey you can buy three government sector CISOs for that in the UK...

Y'all. It happened AGAIN.

Stop relying on generative AI for legal research. Or don't, but then I'm going to use you for my CLE.

Larry Ellison: Oracle gave Elon Musk GPUs – “Boy, did they want more..." Last night's earnings call was an interesting one; a little vignette here that suggests like everyone, it's struggling to get the GPUs it needs. www.thestack.technology/larry-elliso...

front facing view of a reconstruction of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine 2.

pretty incredible. 147 years after Charles Babbage came up with the design for the Difference Engine No. 2, Doron Swade at the London Science Museum publishes a user manual and technical details for the machine! www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/sites/defaul...

Hock Tan is killing off #VMware's traditional on-premises licences. Support and patches under SnS? They're going too... www.thestack.technology/broadcom-is-...

Actual Economist headline: "What World War Three Would Mean for Investors"

[shuffles papers] it'd be bad

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So here we are, the unsullied shores of "the other place". What happens here? Is it Twitter snark? LinkedIn chest-thumping? Instagram yoga and meals-posting? Memes? In jokes? For me, it's tabular rasa, which is always compelling. I'm going to treat it like a mix of all the above.