Practical Technology

Ever since Heartbleed made life miserable for anyone using OpenSSL, I get a sick feeling in my tummy whenever I hear about an OpenSSL security hole. The latest, CVE-2022-2274, didn’t reach Heartbleed levels of ick, but it was more than bad enough.…Read More

Opinion In the beginning, Microsoft was The Evil Empire. In 2001 then CEO Steve Ballmer declared: “Linux is a cancer.” Later, Microsoft sponsored SCO’s copyright attack on Linux; claimed that Linux violated unnamed Microsoft patents; and forced…Read More

Google Cloud: When it comes to cyber risks, we’re all in it together Read now In a move many will find surprising, Red Hat announced that Paul Cormier, the company’s CEO and president since 2020, is stepping over to become chairman of the board. Matt…Read More

According to the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), half of US small-business owners said they had open positions they couldn’t fill this June. But look at it this way: that’s better than May 2022, when it was more than half. That,…Read More

The Palo Alto Networks (PANW) Unit 42 threat research team was quietly going about their business when they spotted yet another malware file in VirusTotal, the community site for suspicious files, domains, IPs and URLs. This one had gotten a benign…Read More

GitHub’s Copilot is an AI-based, pair-programming service. Its machine learning model raises a number of questions. Open source experts weigh in. Endless cyber-threat pressure could leave security staff burnt out. Here’s what you need to change Read…Read More