Is “cloud computing” enabling the next generation of information accessibility or simply a marketing campaign devised by technology companies to peddle more of what they are already selling? The answer lies somewhere between those extremes. Much of what makes cloud computing tick—the Internet, mobile computers, networked data storage, software housed in data centers and delivered over the Web, et cetera—has been available since the beginning of the dot-com era more than a decade ago. What is new, or at least more recent, is the greater variety of content that can be delivered online to a wider variety of gadgets.
Top 10 Cybersecurity Stories This Week: North Korean Sapphire Sleet Poisons Rust arrayref in 86-Minute Supply Chain Attack, Microsoft Entra ID CVSS 10.0 RCE Tagged “Exploited” Then Corrected, T-Mobile Cut a Cable to Stop Salt Typhoon
August 28, 2026 | ITBriefcase.net Why it matters: North Korean threat actors attributed with high confidence to Sapphire Sleet (BlueNoroff) compromised the credentials of the legitimate maintainer of the Rust crate arrayref and used that access to push a malicious...
