Latest articles by Solomon Klappholz
Google tried to scupper Microsoft’s CISPE settlement with a $512 million sweetener – but it failed
News Google offered a lucrative package filled with incentives in an unsuccessful attempt to convince CISPE members to reject a deal with Microsoft
Google's greenhouse gas emissions have skyrocketed
News Google is struggling to balance lon-term sustainability goals while keeping pace with key competitors in the generative AI race
HP caps off its PC overhaul with the launch of the OmniBook Ultra 14 – its most powerful AI-powered laptop to date
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
AT&T hacker says firm paid nearly $400,000 to have stolen data deleted
News The move by AT&T comes after a data breach exposed "nearly all" of the telecoms giant's 100 million customers
AWS’ nuclear-powered data center deal just hit a major roadblock
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
Microsoft warns 'Skeleton Key' can crack popular AI models for dangerous outputs
News Microsoft says threat actors can bypass guardrails built into some of the most popular LLMs using this simple technique
The hackers behind the Indonesian data center attack just handed over a decryption key for free – and they even apologized
The threat actors behind a ransomware attack that crippled public services across Indonesia has handed over the decryption key for free
10 billion stolen passwords have been shared online in the biggest data leak of all time
News A new record-breaking password leak saw over 10 billion credentials posted to an underground hacking forum last week
Hundreds of Cobalt Strike servers have been taken offline in a major law enforcement sting
News Seven law enforcement agencies collaborated to put a dent in infrastructure supporting malicious uses of Cobalt Strike by hacking gangs
Cloudflare is fighting back against AI web scrapers
Newes Cloudflare wants to help wrestle back control of the web from AI website crawlers
Excel for the web just got a big makeover – and it’s a lot easier to use
News Microsoft has updated the web version of Excel, adding a bunch of handy features that should make reading and editing spreadsheets a breeze
Want cheaper cyber insurance? Security leaders say improving resilience has helped them save on coverage
Analysis Cyber insurance is becoming widespread, and many enterprises are making major investments to boost resilience in a bid to drive down their premiums
Twilio warns Authy users of imminent social engineering attacks after hackers got hold of phone numbers
News Twilio warned Authy users to be wary of social engineering attacks, after the ShinyHunters gang listed 33 million records for sale on the dark web
This new ransomware group has been calling up victims to pressure them into paying – and it could be their downfall
A new ransomware group has ditched the traditional leak site in favor of calling up their victims to pressure them into paying, but this could give law enforcement the extra info they need
Critical vulnerabilities left millions of Apple devices at the mercy of hackers – and nobody noticed for nearly a decade
News Apple devices could've been susceptible to supply chain attacks after three critical vulnerabilities went unnoticed for nearly a decade
Prudential said 36,000 people were affected in a February data breach – it just revised that number to 2.5 million
News Prudential has revised its initial data breach victim count from just over 36,000 to a whopping 2.5 million
Wimbledon’s new Catch Me Up AI feature promises to keep fans up to date at the tournament – after it irons out some of the wrinkles
News The latest feature to come out of IBM’s partnership with Wimbledon will keep fans engaged from the early stages right through to the final with dynamic player insights
Millions of sites could’ve been exposed in the Polyfill, BootCDN, Bootcss, and Staticfile attack – and it was all orchestrated by a single operator
News Researchers have traced the source of a supply chain attack leveraging a number popular open source CDN services back to one source
Critical OpenSSH vulnerability leaves over 14 million servers potentially at risk
News Researchers have uncovered the first security flaw affecting OpenSSH in almost two decades, and it's a big one – here’s what you need to know
Cyber attacks on healthcare organizations are surging – here's why
Analysis Healthcare organizations have been targeted with spiraling costs linked to a record number of cyber attacks in recent years
Everything you need to know about the TeamViewer breach
News TeamViewer’s corporate IT environment is believed to have been accessed by Russian state-sponsored hacker collective, Midnight Blizzard
CISOs plan to start downsizing security teams because of AI – but experts warn it’s a “shortsighted and dangerous" path to take
News CISOs around the world are planning on reducing headcounts as they continue to adopt AI tools, but experts warn this could be a shortsighted strategy
Microsoft confirms customer emails were accessed during Midnight Blizzard breach
Microsoft has begun notifying certain customers that there emails were accessed by threat actors in a breach
