{"id":1530,"date":"2021-02-05T12:13:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T12:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-uk.mindquest.io\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2022-10-10T16:27:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:27:34","slug":"weekly-news-google-project-zero-day-bugs-cloud-and-quantum-leap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-uk.mindquest.io\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"Weekly News: Google&#8217;s Project Zero-Day Bugs, Cloud and a Quantum Leap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Project Zero-Day Bugs, Cloud and a Quantum Leap&#8230; Watch this recap in video format.<\/p>\n<p>?  <a class=\"has-text-color\" href=\"https:\/\/visit.mindquest.io\/mission-control-center-podcast?utm_source=medium&#038;utm_medium=b_post&#038;utm_campaign=Podcast_lp\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to the podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"has-text-color\" href=\"https:\/\/mindquest.io\/en\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">Check out more of our interviews from our podcast episodes.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Infosec &amp; Google&#8217;s Project Zero: Google says try harder<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>New research by Maddie Stone, a researcher at<br \/>\nGoogle&#8217;s Project Zero security team, suggests hackers have it way too easy<br \/>\nthanks to the business world&#8217;s failure to patch zero-day and recurring<br \/>\nvulnerabilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According<br \/>\nto Stone, attackers these days don&#8217;t really need to come up with new<br \/>\nvulnerabilities to exploit. Although industry leaders including Google itself<br \/>\nare diligent enough in issuing patches to zero-day vulnerabilities, these bug<br \/>\nfixes often fall flat and don&#8217;t fully address the issue, leaving the doors open<br \/>\nto future attacks. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Project Zero, whose only focus is to investigate these zero-day flaws, advocates for greater investment and a more proactive approach to security. The key, Stone says, is to let engineers go deeper to identify the root of the problem and implement more meaningful structural changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2021\/02\/03\/1017242\/google-project-zero-day-flaw-security\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIT Technology Review<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<h2><strong>It&#8217;s all about the cloud<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This week we got a surprise announcement from<br \/>\na technology titan: Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon. And his<br \/>\nchoice of successor is quite revealing of where the industry is headed<br \/>\nnext.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amazon<br \/>\nstarted as an online retailer, and that&#8217;s for what most people know the<br \/>\ncompany. But it&#8217;s not where the money is at. Any tech insider like yourself<br \/>\nwill undoubtedly tell the layman that the Seattle born company makes most of<br \/>\nits revenue with its cloud services. It is no surprise then, that Bezos has<br \/>\nchosen Andy Jassy, head of Amazon Web Services, to take the company into the<br \/>\nfuture. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And Amazon is not alone here. Microsoft is no longer the company that makes Windows. Google is not just a search engine. Cloud has clearly become the winning bet for tech goliaths. And, with only 25-30 percent of business workloads in the cloud. we are just seeing the beginning of it. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/amazon-s-new-ceo-has-his-head-cloud-so-do-n1256591\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Quantum leaps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>And speaking of Microsoft and cloud, the Redmond-based company announced this week the availability on preview of Azure <a class=\"has-text-color\" href=\"https:\/\/mindquest.io\/en\/blog\/news\/356\/brief-intro-to-quantum-computing\" target=\"_blank\">Quantum<\/a>, a public cloud ecosystem that lets users access the quantum capabilities of partners like Honeywell, IonQ and Quantum Circuits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With this<br \/>\npublic preview, Microsoft wants to encourage developers, researchers and<br \/>\nsystems integrators to learn how to use the platform and build applications<br \/>\nthat could potentially transform a wide range of industries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes the same week Dutch researchers at Radbourd University revealed a new method for assembling a network of atoms that works in a similar way to the synapses in our brains. The breakthrough, the researchers say, is a major step towards the creation of a quantum brain that is able to function and change like a human&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsofts-quantum-cloud-computing-plans-take-another-big-step-forward\/\" target=\"_blank\">ZDNet<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tech\/quantum-brain-computer-intelligence-b1795837.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Independent<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/share.ebpages.com\/subscribe-to-mcc-newsletter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1700\" height=\"610\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1039\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.club-freelance.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/CTA-newsletter-newstand-1.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"has-text-color\" href=\"https:\/\/mindquest.io\/en\/signup?type=consultant\" target=\"_blank\">Join our community and find your next job or expert in IT<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Project Zero-Day Bugs, Cloud and a Quantum Leap&#8230; Watch this recap in video format with Mission Control Center by Mindquest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[775,755],"tags":[159,43,444,60,63,112,69,445],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-review","category-tech-magazine","tag-azure","tag-cloud-computing","tag-infosec","tag-it-news","tag-microsoft","tag-quantum-computing","tag-tech-news","tag-zero-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-uk.mindquest.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-uk.mindquest.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-uk.mindquest.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-uk.mindquest.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-uk.mindquest.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/wp-uk.mindquest.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6489,"href":"https:\/\/wp-uk.mindquest.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/6489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-uk.mindquest.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-uk.mindquest.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-uk.mindquest.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-uk.mindquest.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}