Thought LeadershipGartner forecast: 15% more IT security expenditure in 2025
According to a new forecast by Gartner, global spending on information security will amount to 212 billion US dollars in 2025, an increase of 15.1 percent compared to 2024.
Lars Becker
Qilin ransomware escalates attack with exfiltration of browser credentials
The Sophos X-Ops team has disclosed a new attack variant of the Qilin ransomware group.
As part of a recent investigation into a Qilin ransomware attack, the Sophos X-Ops team discovered that the attackers stole credentials stored in Google Chrome browsers on certain network endpoints.
What is a Gantt chart?
A Gantt chart is a widely used tool in project management that displays tasks in terms of time and is used to visualize project plans and monitor progress.
IBM closes research department in China
The US technology giant IBM has announced the closure of its hardware research department in China.
This measure, which affects more than 1,000 employees, is attributed to the increasing geopolitical tensions between the United States and the People's Republic of China.
AWS boss predicts: developers of the future will no longer code
The world of software development is on the brink of upheaval.
Matt Garman, the head of Amazon Web Services (AWS), recently gave an insight into his vision for the future of the industry in a leaked internal conversation.
Ransomware group LockBit on the verge of a comeback
The takedown of the LockBit ransomware group in February 2024 shook the cybercrime world.
According to WithSecure's new report, LockBit is now in a rebuilding phase, with clear signs of a planned comeback.
Data leak at Toyota: customer data compromised
Japanese car manufacturer Toyota recently confirmed an incident in which customer data was exposed through a security breach at a third-party provider.
A hacker had previously published a 240 GB archive of stolen data on a hacker forum.
How Microsoft is abusing the CrowdStrike outage to its advantage
After Microsoft initially refrained from publicly commenting on the global IT security debacle on July 19, 2024, the Wall Street Journal published an accusation against the European Commission just a few days later: it was not CrowdStrike, but the EU itself that was primarily responsible for the world's largest computer outage to date.
FBI investigates possible hacker attack on Trump’s campaign team
A few months before the US election, reporters are allegedly leaked internal communications from the Trump team.
Are foreign hackers interfering in the election campaign?
Security vulnerability affects millions of AMD processors
A recently discovered security vulnerability named "Sinkclose" is causing concern. Millions of systems with AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors are potentially affected.