At QCon London 2026, Colin Douch discussed building and operating self-hosted monitoring stacks, surveyed the current tooling landscape, and explained how to build a coherent observability setup rather than treating logs, metrics, and traces as separate pillars. Douch, site reliability engineer at DuckDuckGo, opened the session by challenging the audience: Do you ever feel … Read more
Formula 1 is well known for its precision engineering pedigree and where races are won and lost by mere milliseconds. While it has long been data driven, attention to security and resilience are deepening. To dig into those themes, I was delighted to be joined by industry peers and the Atlassian Williams F1 team on … Read more
Acronis reported that small and midsize businesses often install software patches within a week. However, a significant minority of devices remain unpatched for weeks, leaving systems exposed after vulnerabilities become public. Analysis by the Acronis Threat Research Unit, based on telemetry from the second half of 2025, found a global median installation time of 185 … Read more
Rapid7 has launched a managed detection and response service that integrates signals from Microsoft Defender and links them with Rapid7’s security operations tooling and analysts. The service, called Rapid7 MDR for Microsoft, targets organisations that run Microsoft as a core provider for productivity and security. Rapid7 said the service uses bi-directional integrations with Microsoft Defender … Read more
Kaspersky Threat Research has identified a new data-stealing Trojan named SparkCat, which is active on both AppStore and Google Play and poses a significant threat by scanning image galleries to extract sensitive data. This malware utilises optical recognition to find and steal information such as passwords and cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from images, potentially causing … Read more