Solomon Klappholz
Solomon Klappholz is a Staff Writer at ITPro. He has experience writing about the technologies that facilitate industrial manufacturing which led to him developing a particular interest in IT regulation, industrial infrastructure applications, and machine learning.
Before he joined ITPro, Solomon graduated from the University of Warwick in 2018 with a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics which included an intercalated year studying Philosophy at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
Outside of the office, Solomon enjoys reading, visiting new art exhibitions, and playing football.
Latest articles by Solomon Klappholz
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US Department of State puts $10 million bounty on North Korean hacker’s head
By Solomon Klappholz published
News US law enforcement after information on the identification or location of a leading affiliate of a North Korean hacking gang, as the NCSC issues warning of its increased focus on critical infrastructure
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Documents for Pentagon contractors found on dark web
By Solomon Klappholz published
News Hackers have reportedly dumped internal documents from Leidos Holdings on the dark web, raising questions about how organizations are securing their supply chains
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Researchers discover “highly sophisticated’ operation using a 3,000-strong network of ghost accounts to spread malware on GitHub
By Solomon Klappholz published
A flood of ghost accounts are manipulating GitHub to promote malicious repositories and accounts – and this could be just the tip of the iceberg
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Meta’s Llama 3.1 promises to compete with closed source competition
By Solomon Klappholz published
News Social media giant reveals its most powerful open source model yet, but stakeholders continue to question its credibility in the field
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Wiz backs out of $23 billion Google acquisition
By Solomon Klappholz published
News Security firm cites antitrust and investor concerns as it backs out of Google deal, but experts note there are other cloud security specialists the search giant could turn to
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NCA takes down world’s most prolific DDoS-for-hire website
By Solomon Klappholz published
A joint operation led by the National Crime Agency to infiltrate the Digitalstress.su criminal marketplace and take control of its infrastructure and domains
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Hackers create fake CrowdStrike recovery resources
By Solomon Klappholz published
Businesses urged to exercise caution and look out for the file named ‘result.txt in %TMP%’ that could indicate a “Daolpu” infection
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CISA breached a federal agency as part of its red team program — and nobody noticed for five months
By Solomon Klappholz published
News A red team assessment performed by CISA on an unnamed federal agency found a series of critical security weaknesses
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Global IT outage caused by faulty CrowdStrike update could take ‘days and weeks’ to resolve, experts warn
By Solomon Klappholz published
News Responsible for one of the largest IT outages in years, CrowdStrike has had a tough day, but experts warn customers could face a "nightmare" in the coming days
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Half of Australia’s population was exposed in the MediSecure breach, but victims might never know if they’re affected
By Solomon Klappholz published
News Financial difficulties at MediSecure mean it doesn’t have the resources to establish exactly who was impacted in a recent breach and what data was stolen
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King’s Speech: Security in the spotlight as government promises new efforts to lock down insecure IT supply chains
By Solomon Klappholz published
News The new Labour government has promised fresh cybersecurity legislation aimed at minimizing supply chain risk and improving incident reporting
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What's really motivating the Disney hackers?
By Solomon Klappholz published
One security expert told ITPro the Disney hackers could have ulterior motives despite framing themselves as hacktivist champions in support of content creators
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Tony Blair thinks AI is a silver bullet for public sector efficiency – but it's not that simple
By Solomon Klappholz published
News A recent white paper claimed the public sector could save billions every year by embracing AI, but experts warn this requires the right approach
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HP shows the AI PC ecosystem is starting to bear fruit — is it time for businesses to take note?
By Solomon Klappholz published
Analysis The era of the AI PC may soon be upon us as software vendors start to realize the potential value of processing AI workloads locally
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Google tried to scupper Microsoft’s CISPE settlement with a $512 million sweetener – but it failed
By Solomon Klappholz published
News Google offered a lucrative package filled with incentives in an unsuccessful attempt to convince CISPE members to reject a deal with Microsoft
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Google's greenhouse gas emissions have skyrocketed
By Solomon Klappholz published
News Google is struggling to balance long-term sustainability goals while keeping pace with key competitors in the generative AI race
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HP caps off its PC overhaul with the launch of the OmniBook Ultra 14 – its most powerful AI-powered laptop to date
By Solomon Klappholz published
News With the HP Dragonfly, Spectre, and Envy brands ditched in sweeping restructure of device portfolio, the OmniBook Ultra 14 marks the first major step into the era of the AI PC
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AT&T hacker says firm paid nearly $400,000 to have stolen data deleted
By Solomon Klappholz published
News The move by AT&T comes after a data breach exposed "nearly all" of the telecoms giant's 100 million customers
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AWS’ nuclear-powered data center deal just hit a major roadblock
By Solomon Klappholz published
News AWS' $650 million nuclear-powered data center deal with Talen Energy could be in jeopardy as US utility companies hit back against the plans
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Microsoft warns 'Skeleton Key' can crack popular AI models for dangerous outputs
By Solomon Klappholz published
News Microsoft says threat actors can bypass guardrails built into some of the most popular LLMs using this simple technique
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The hackers behind the Indonesian data center attack just handed over a decryption key for free – and they even apologized
By Solomon Klappholz published
The threat actors behind a ransomware attack that crippled public services across Indonesia has handed over the decryption key for free
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10 billion stolen passwords have been shared online in the biggest data leak of all time
By Solomon Klappholz published
News A new record-breaking password leak saw over 10 billion credentials posted to an underground hacking forum last week
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Hundreds of Cobalt Strike servers have been taken offline in a major law enforcement sting
By Solomon Klappholz published
News Seven law enforcement agencies collaborated to put a dent in infrastructure supporting malicious uses of Cobalt Strike by hacking gangs