High-profile ransomware incidents affecting leading UK retailers continue to grab headlines, but in the background, total ransomware attack volumes appear to have eased off over the past few weeks, according to NCC Group’s latest monthly Threat Pulse report. NCC’s extensive telemetry observed 416 ransomware attacks in April 2025, down 31% month on month, with 78%…
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When Rom Kosla, CIO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), joined the technology giant in July 2023, the move represented a big shift in direction. Previously CIO at retailer Ahold Delhaize and CIO for enterprise solutions at PepsiCo, Kosla was a consumer specialist who wanted to apply his knowledge in a new sector. “I liked the…
Interview: Rom Kosla, CIO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Read More »
As Russia continues its relentless assaults on Ukraine despite in defiance of continuing efforts to work towards a peace deal, multiple western security agencies have issued a new advisory warning of a Moscow-backed campaign of cyber intrusions targeting logistics and technology organisations in the West. The campaign, run through Unit 26165 of the Main Directorate…
NCSC: Russia’s Fancy Bear targeting logistics, tech organisations Read More »
More and more of our personal data seems to leak online with each passing day, and while it’s easy to become numb to that reality, some data breaches are more concerning than others. To that point, the discovery of a publicly exposed database by cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler of Website Planet this week is one…
184 million logins exposed in ‘dream come true for cyber criminals’ Read More »
AI has been dominating the news cycle once again, and not just because Google unloaded an incredible number of new Gemini and Gemini-powered tools and AI experiences when the company hosted its annual I/O developer conference this week.A day before the main I/O 2025 keynote, Microsoft’s Build conference also produced plenty of AI news. More…
ChatGPT got a makeover, but all of your AI tools are still there Read More »
It’s been a massive week for AI, as some of the main players made several big announcements. Google I/O 2025 might have been the expected highlight, but Microsoft also hosted its Build conference a day earlier.After the first I/O day, we got an unexpected AI shock on Wednesday when OpenAI confirmed it’s developing its own…
Claude 4 AI will try to report you to authorities if it thinks you’re doing shady stuff Read More »
A broad coalition of technology partners and law enforcement agencies, spearheaded by Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), has disrupted the dangerous Lumma Stealer malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operation, which played a key role in the arsenals of multiple cyber criminal gangs, including ransomware crews. Using a court order granted in the US District Court of the Northern…
Microsoft raises posse to target dangerous Lumma malware Read More »
2024 was a banner year for Qualcomm at Computex, with the massive launch of its Snapdragon X Elite laptop processors putting it at the forefront of the event. In fact, Qualcomm’s keynote presentation last year was so impressive that I declared them the winners of the event, with guest stars from makes of many of…
Qualcomm isn’t giving us new Snapdragon chips at Computex Read More »
A plan by Essex-based Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAH) to move some capacity to Nutanix cloud-based services is blocked by uncertainty over pricing amid US president Donald Trump’s recent flurry of on-off, up-down tariffs. PAH saved £500,000 when it migrated from VMware on end-of-life EMC VNX storage arrays to Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) several years…
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Microsoft has issued fixes for a total of five new zero-day vulnerabilities out of a grand total of just over 70 addressable common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) on the fifth Patch Tuesday of 2025 – over 80 when third-party issues are accounted for. In numerical order, this month’s zero days are as follows: CVE-2025-30400, an…
May Patch Tuesday brings five exploited zero-days to fix Read More »
