Joe Fay

1 week ago | thestack.technology | Joe Fay

The UK Ministry of Defence this week trumpeted a £1bn investment in AI powered battlefield systems, and a new Cyber and Electromagnetic Command. The Digital Targeting Web was revealed as defence secretary John Healey visited the UK military’s cyber HQ at MOD Corsham, and as Whitehall gears up for the Labour government’s first strategic defence review.

1 week ago | thestack.technology | Joe Fay

GPU-powered systems are not for the “faint-hearted” Dell’s vice chairman and COO warned yesterday as the firm announced first quarter results that were swollen by accelerating demand for NVIDIA-packed AI servers. Jeff Clarke also shrugged off the effect of the US government’s tariffs regime in the quarter, while confirming that some customers had pulled purchases forward. Overall net revenue for the first quarter ending May 2 came in at $23.4 billion, up 5 percent on the year.

1 week ago | thestack.technology | Joe Fay

Even the world’s biggest, most technologically advanced companies rely on Excel spreadsheets: planners and sales people don’t always want to break free from their tiny green cells. But what if you could leave sales people enjoying their spreadsheets or other “legacy” apps, while putting together a CRM system that pulls in the relevant data from them, as well as information from the myriad other systems an enterprise relies on?

2 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Joe Fay

Europol, the DoJ and other law enforcement agencies “neutralized” a swathe of malware strains this week, which they said was a “direct blow to the ransomware kill chain.” The actions were part of the ongoing Operation Endgame which targeted a series of botnets just over a year ago. But it’s worth remembering that the latest actions were largely focused on “malware variants and success groups” that sprang up after last year’s operation.

2 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Joe Fay

A nation state actor’s targeting of Commvault over the last few months may be part of a wider campaign against Saas companies’ cloud applications, CISA has warned. The data management and security firm company has had a torrid time over the last few months. As CISA warned this week, the firm has been “monitoring cyber threat activity targeting their applications hosted in their Microsoft Azure cloud environment.” The specific target appears to be Commvault's Metallic backup service.