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Volume 325, Issue 5: April 28th, 2025 — May 4th, 2025
IT News You Can Use - Full Weekly Issue - Vol 325 Issue 5
Security
DARPA Highlights Critical Infrastructure Security Challenges
Cybersecurity Changes Companies Should Be Considering For 2025
Humor
What The **** Did You Put In That Code? The Client Thinks It's A Cyberattack
10 Legendary Pranks That Tech Companies Pulled Off Perfectly
Techie Solved Supposed Software Problem By Waving His Arms In The Air
Operations
How Hyperscale Data Centers Are Rethinking Cooling Efficiency
Next-Generation Observability: Combining Opentelemetry And AI For Proactive Incident Management
Encryption
Google News
Hello 0-Days, My Old Friend: A 2024 Zero-Day Exploitation Analysis
Google Cloud Enhances Databases with Firestore and MongoDB Features
Three Insights You May Have Missed From theCUBE's Coverage Of Google Cloud Next
IBM News
Cloudflare News
Security
Are Expenditures on NHI Justified?
Does Your Cybersecurity Strategy Justify NHI Costs?...more
Most Critical Vulnerabilities Aren't Worth Your Attention
Web applications face a wide range of risks, including known-exploitable vulnerabilities, supply chain attacks, and insecure identity configurations in CI/CD, according to the Datadog State of DevSecOps 2025 report....more
DARPA Highlights Critical Infrastructure Security Challenges
Leaders at federal research organizations DARPA, ARPA-I, and ARPA-H discussed the myriad obstacles in addressing critical infrastructure security at RSAC Conference 2025....more
Cybersecurity Changes Companies Should Be Considering For 2025
As companies develop their goals for 2025, they should definitely include 'improve our cybersecurity framework' at the top of the list....more
Being Proactive with NHIs in Cyber Defense
The Proactive Cyber Defense: Why Embrace NHIs?...more
Humor
What The **** Did You Put In That Code? The Client Thinks It's A Cyberattack
When your customers work in super-sensitive situations, bad jokes make for bad business...more
10 Legendary Pranks That Tech Companies Pulled Off Perfectly
Every year, nearly all tech companies come up with new prank concepts that are fun to experience....more
Techie Solved Supposed Software Problem By Waving His Arms In The Air
Used his loaf and found sweet solution for bakery borkage...more
Operations
How Hyperscale Data Centers Are Rethinking Cooling Efficiency
Optimizing cooling for hyperscale data centers requires innovative solutions. Learn how operators are meeting sustainability and efficiency goals....more
Next-Generation Observability: Combining Opentelemetry And AI For Proactive Incident Management
Modern society uses complex and distributed systems, making traditional monitoring tools inadequate. Traditional monitoring tools cannot handle the bulk of data passing through modern systems, making them slow to address and model every aspect of achieving suitable results....more
How Centralized Data Center Management Maximizes Uptime
Building an automated, resilient, and scalable data center strategy can help prevent disruptions and reduce costs, writes Michael Giannou....more
Encryption
NCSC Guidance on 'Advanced Cryptography'
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre just released its white paper on 'Advanced Cryptography,' which it defines as 'cryptographic techniques for processing encrypted data, providing enhanced functionality over and above that provided by traditional cryptography.'...more