SEC filings show the outfit cut projected 2027 cloud purchase commitments by $114M Security vendor Palo Alto Networks is expanding its Google Cloud partnership, saying it will move “key internal workloads” onto the Chocolate Factory’s infrastructure. The outfit also claims it is tightening integrations between its security tools and Google Cloud to deliver what it calls a “unified” security experience. At the same time, Palo Alto may trim its own cloud purchase commitments.… READ MORE HERE…

Ah, the good old days when 0-day development took a year Interview  “In my past life, it would take us 360 days to develop an amazing zero day,” Zafran Security CEO Sanaz Yashar said.… READ MORE HERE…

Anna’s Archive’s idealism doesn’t quite survive its own blog post What would happen to the world’s music collections if streaming services disappeared? One hacktivist group says it has a solution: scrape around 300 terabytes of music and metadata from Spotify and offer it up for free as what it calls the world’s first “fully open” music preservation archive.… READ MORE HERE…

SK Telecom’s epic infosec faill will cost it another $1.5 billion South Korea’s government on Friday announced it will require local mobile carriers to verify the identity of new customers with facial recognition scans, in the hope of reducing scams.… READ MORE HERE…

A rare case of deliberately trying to induce an outage A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup generators powering some of its Network Time Protocol infrastructure, after a power outage around Boulder, Colorado, led to errors.… READ MORE HERE…