Company announces intent following Ticketmaster, Santander break-ins A month after incident response giant Mandiant suggested the litany of data thefts linked to Snowflake account intrusions had the common component of lacking multi-factor authentication (MFA) controls, the cloud storage and data analytics company is offering a mandatory MFA option to admins.… READ MORE HERE…

Fixes have been made, it appears, but disclosure or discussion is invisible Column  Found a bug? It turns out that reporting it with a story in The Register works remarkably well … mostly. After publication of my “Kryptonite” article about a prompt that crashes many AI chatbots, I began to get a steady stream of emails from readers – many times the total of all reader emails I’d received in the previous decade.… READ MORE HERE…

Understanding the power needs of the UK begins with knowing when renewals are due Certificate Watch  Demonstrating that Microsoft is not alone in its inability to keep track of certificates is UK power market biz Elexon.… READ MORE HERE…

Google’s absence creates software distribution issues not even mighty Microsoft can handle Microsoft China will provide staff with Apple devices so they can log on to the software giant’s systems.… READ MORE HERE…