Even open source provider Canonical is addressing the new and vastly expanded threats, thanks to Mythos (AI)

https://ubuntu.com//blog/responding-to-a-new-threat-landscape

They're having to use AI to combat the new AI threats.

And going after certificates is a boon to deploying malware in commonly used open-source software. Every company that does CI/CD without seriously checking their dependencies is at risk.

Instead of standing on the shoulders of giants, companies are going to have to start treating software they didn't write as a vulnerability.

“His” Oracle went from CIA to corporate global like that.

I back up my files solely to local hard drives.

A few years ago, when the well-known "last pass" was breached, I said, "That's it! No more. The cloud cannot be secured."

Notice how Google and Microsoft are always trying to trick users into using cloud storage. They want your stuff!

I will create encrypted disk images and copy those to the cloud for a backup. But I don't depend on any one of them to be there tomorrow and I certainly don't upload anything sensitive unencrypted.

For the many of you who think I'm silly, read up on Megaupload and the innocents that lost their files when the service was shut down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload

In other words: don't trust the clouds and if your data is in only one place, it’s not backed up!

I find it amazing that companies will use gmail and google docs to store seriously confidential information, unencrypted on the Google servers. If I was a hacker working for profit or the Russians, my goal would be to work for Google (or Amazon or Microsoft or Apple) to gain admin access to their clouds.

Exactly. Try explaining that to people that 'the cloud' isn't anything but somebody else's server farm. But oh, no - they think it's some sort of nebulous ur-world where data floats around like molecules. One woman patiently explained to me that "No no...you can just grab something from here...from there..anywhere in The Cloud! It's the future of ecommerce!" (I'm a merchant by trade).

::head desk::

... and operate them outside of their clouds.

ALL the typical consumer crap computers and small business "solutions" are forcing users into the cloud.

The cost of building highly capable machines of our own that do not depend on cloud services is skyrocketing as all the latest technology is sucked up in the construction of new data centers. Anyone who is buying high end components to build their own computers will tell you that.

Are we tacitly giving up the right to run our own computers as we see fit independent of any "cloud?"

Why does everything have to be attached to the internet?