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Wednesday April 9, 2025. 07:14 PM
Umm… something very strange is happening in the world of Linux Mint, folks. You see, the developers are adding OEM support to Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 (LMDE 7) -- a version of the operating system that’s allegedly nothing more than an emergency fallback. Based on the...
New findings from threat protection platform BlackFog show the first quarter of 2025 has seen record-breaking numbers of publicly disclosed ransomware attacks, marking a 45 percent increase compared to Q1 of 2024. Analysis of ransomware activity in the period from January to ...
New research from Object First shows 81 percent of IT professionals say immutable backup storage built on Zero Trust principles is the best defense against ransomware, and 54 percent view target backup appliances as more secure than integrated appliances. The report,...
The enterprise device landscape is becoming much more complex and more dangerous, with the average device risk per industry increasing by 15 percent year-on-year. A new report from Forescout highlights that network-connected devices, from traditional IT operating systems to...
With cyberattacks surging across every sector from critical national infrastructure to commercial businesses, it’s never been more vital for organizations to get control of their digital footprint and restrict access to their most sensitive data. Instead, organizations are ...
A new report highlights how growing reliance on digital technologies across Europe, combined with geopolitical tensions and sophisticated threat actors, is creating a perfect storm that could put energy stability at risk and lead to the lights going out. The study from...
Despite still being in its infancy, it would be hard to overstate the impact that AI has already had on the cybersecurity landscape. Not only has AI made it infinitely easier and faster to develop a wide range of traditional attacks -- such as phishing, business email...
It's time to update Windows 11 again. Microsoft has just unleashed the KB5055523 update, and it is chock full of fixes for a series of bugs, problems and irritations in the operating system. One of the most frustrating issues addressed by the KB5055523 update is a peculiar...
Teen use of social media platforms is something that is concerning for many parents and has become the subject of political and legal debates. Having introduced Instagram Teen Accounts, last year, Meta has now done the same for both Facebook and Messenger. Just as with...
Tuesday April 8, 2025. 03:18 PM
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is launching an expansion of its HPE Aruba Networking Central AI-powered network management solution, including a virtual private cloud environment. This is aimed at customers who want the agility of cloud but with specific data security,...
According to a new report, 73 percent of IT decision-makers globally are concerned about nation-state actors using AI to develop more sophisticated and targeted cyberattacks. The study from Armis warns that AI-powered cyberwarfare attacks are now becoming a supercharged...
Generative AI is the tech buzzword of the decade -- and the money has followed obediently. In 2025, American Big Tech firms alone announced an investment of $300bn in AI infrastructure. A year earlier, global venture capital investment into AI startups reached approximately...
As organizations increasingly rely on third-party vendors, open-source components, and cloud services to bolster efficiency and scalability, they also open themselves to risks. Historically they've relied on CVSS scores to measure the severity of risks, but a new report from ...
IBM has announced what it's calling its most advanced mainframe to date, with major new AI capabilities. Powered by a new IBM Telum II processor, the IBM z17 expands the system’s capabilities beyond transactional AI capabilities, enabling the platform to take on new...
Back at the beginning of the year, Meta announced that third-party fact checking would become a thing of the past on its platforms. The company revealed plans to go down a similar route to X and use Community Notes to allows for crowd-sourced fact-checking instead. After a...
Microsoft had made much of its plans to deprecate WSUS driver synchronization, announcing the intention in the middle of last year. In January, it issued a reminder that service was being closed down, and then again in February. But now the company has had a change of heart. ...
A new survey, of 1,000 purchasing decision makers across the US, UK, France, and DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) regions, reveals that while AI investment is the top spending priority for nearly half of businesses, only one-fifth of surveyed companies feel confident...
Framework just pulled a couple laptops from its US store, and sadly, it’s for political reasons. You see, thanks to new tariffs launched by President Donald Trump, shoppers in the United States can no longer buy two base models of the company’s Laptop 13. The two...
Monday April 7, 2025. 07:12 PM
Google may be the current king of search, but thanks to competition from artificial intelligence services like ChatGPT and Grok, its continued dominance is becoming less guaranteed. In other words, Google can no longer rest on its laurels with search -- it must either evolve ...
Cloud migration is an essential step for companies looking to scale, optimize, and future-proof their operations, but many organizations find themselves overwhelmed by the complexity of migration, often overthinking the process and getting stuck in a paralysis of what if...
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