Latest articles by Solomon Klappholz
OVHcloud just open sourced its data center liquid cooling system — here’s why
News OVHcloud will open source two components used in data center cooling systems, claiming its tools will help operators with sustainability efforts
Flawed Cisco firewalls used to target government networks
Cisco has published the details of a suspected state-sponsored threat campaign leveraging two firewall zero-days to infect government networks
Hackers have been abusing a popular antivirus solution to crack corporate networks for five years
News Hackers have been using a sophisticated man-in-the-middle attack to exploit a vulnerability in an antivirus solution to spread backdoors on corporate networks
Hackers have found yet another way to trick devs into downloading malware from GitHub
News Threat actors have developed a new way to covertly embed malicious files into legitimate repositories on both GitHub and GitLab using the comment section
UnitedHealth Group admits to paying ransom after Change Healthcare cyber attack
News UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of Change Healthcare, has confirmed it paid the ransom to protect millions of potentially exposed customers
GitLab's Duo Chat proves there's still plenty of ground to claim in the AI coding market
Analysis GitLab Duo Chat faces stiff competition from established alternatives like GitHub, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and the recently announced Google Gemini Code Assist
Women in cyber security: Closing the gender divide
In-depth As women in cyber security face ingrained challenges, leaders and men in established positions must do more to change the sector's culture
AI’s use as a hacking tool has been overhyped
News New research reveals that most LLMs are unable to exploit one-day vulnerabilities, even when given the CVE description
Cyber attack takes Frontier Communications systems offline, affecting millions of broadband customers
News The telecoms firm has been forced to take down a number of its IT systems after an unauthorized third party gained access to its internal network
Cisco launches Hypershield – a 'must-have solution' for those defending against IoT-based cyber attacks
Hypershield leverages its recent acquisition of Isovalent to provide a highly-distributed security architecture that brings security wherever you may need it
After a string of high profile cyber gang takedowns, is the cyber crime industry about to get a lot more fragmented?
The Met’s takedown of online fraud service LabHost shows the heat is being turned up on larger threat collectives, but will the cybercrime ecosystem adjust accordingly?
AMD's new series of AI-enabled processors likely fall short of Microsoft’s performance requirements for next-gen AI PCs
News AMD announces a raft of new AI-enabled processors designed specifically for business devices, but despite performance boosts they still won’t have the compute power to run AI elements locally
Bad bots are on the rise as almost half of all internet traffic is now automated
Web traffic is becoming dominated by automated bots, as the volume of malicious bot traffic is rising for the fifth consecutive year, but which industries are most at risk?
Cisco Duo MFA logs exposed in third-party data breach
News Cyber attack on an unnamed supplier for Cisco Duo’s SMS and VOIP multifactor authentication service exposes sensitive customer data used across internal networks and corporate apps
Growing macOS adoption opens the door to increasingly sophisticated TCC-based attacks
Enterprise adoption of macOS systems is threatened by threat actors like the CloudMensis malware, deployed by the North Korea-aligned Lazarus Group
Sisense breach could have far-reaching consequences as CISA urges businesses to rotate credentials
News Millions of access tokens, keys, and passwords were exposed in a major breach affecting data analytics company Sisense, with CISA urging businesses to rotate and reset any credentials they may have shared with the company
Cyber attacks surged in March with over 299 million records compromised
March saw an eye-watering 299 million records exposed in 3,478 publicly disclosed security incidents, representing a sharp increase on the same period last year
Hackers are using Windows script files to spread malware and swerve antivirus software
A modified version of the Raspberry Robin malware allows it to be loaded onto a victim’s machine using Windows script files and avoid detection by antivirus software
Internal Microsoft passwords left exposed for a month in latest security slip up
Researchers found a Microsoft Azure server containing secret code, passwords, and employee credentials left unsecured and exposed to the public internet
Hackers are abusing GitHub's search function to spread malware
News Hackers are using the names of popular GitHub repositories to trick users into downloading malicious code, new research reveals.
Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday marked by RCE vulnerabilities pervading SQL servers
Microsoft’s April security updates covered a record number of vulnerabilities, most of which were remote code execution flaws
Change Healthcare hit with second ransomware attack of 2024
Change Healthcare is once again being extorted by a ransomware collective for sensitive data stolen from its network
What’s going on with Atos?
Explainer Atos has had a rough few years and is on the brink of collapse after a series of failed deals - and there's no clear sign things will improve for the beleaguered French tech giant
