2025

Ransomware 2025: Attacks Keep Rising as Threat Shows its Resilience 2025-02-20 at 13:16 By Threat Hunter Team Despite the takedowns of some well-known names, ransomware remains a major cybercrime threat. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Dark mode might be burning more juice than you think 2025-02-20 at 12:33 By Dan Robinson Most people crank up the brightness, making energy savings moot Using apps and websites in dark mode can actually use more energy than standard mode, according to researchers, as it causes people to crank up the brightness.… This article

Microsoft’s End of Support for Exchange 2016 and 2019: What IT Teams Must Do Now 2025-02-20 at 12:33 By For decades, Microsoft Exchange has been the backbone of business communications, powering emailing, scheduling and collaboration for organizations worldwide. Whether deployed on-premises or in hybrid environments, companies of all sizes rely on Exchange for seamless internal

DXC paid 50% more than original contract value for disastrous public sector Oracle project 2025-02-20 at 11:39 By Lindsay Clark Systems integrator secured ‘variation’ just before mega SAP migration put on hold Systems integrator DXC accrued over 50 percent more than its original contract value for completing less than half the scheduled contract term during

Ghost ransomware crew continues to haunt IT depts with scarily bad infosec 2025-02-20 at 10:49 By Jessica Lyons FBI and CISA issue reminder – deep sigh – about the importance of patching and backups The operators of Ghost ransomware continue to claim victims and score payments, but keeping the crooks at bay is possible by

Medusa ransomware gang demands $2M from UK private health services provider 2025-02-20 at 09:49 By Iain Thomson 2.3 TB held to ransom as biz formerly known as Virgin Care tells us it’s probing IT ‘security incident’ Exclusive  HCRG Care Group, a private health and social services provider, has seemingly fallen victim to the Medusa ransomware

Cybersecurity needs more than strong tech, it needs strong messaging 2025-02-20 at 08:52 By While companies invest millions in cybersecurity tools and infrastructure, many overlook a critical component of defense: clear, consistent messaging that builds a security-minded culture. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

A big AI build has ‘stalled’ and won’t happen this year as funds and GPUs prove elusive 2025-02-20 at 08:39 By Simon Sharwood Arista trumpeted its role in this project for a year. Good thing business is otherwise solid Big Tech’s plans to spend hundreds of billions on infrastructure during 2025 are often considered to

France tops China’s tokamak record with 22-minute plasma containment run 2025-02-20 at 07:51 By Simon Sharwood Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance France’s Commissariat à L’énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Tuesday claimed it’s topped China’s recently-established for record maintaining fusion plasma in a tokamak, and therefore taken another

Citrix Releases Security Fix for NetScaler Console Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 2025-02-20 at 07:21 By Citrix has released security updates for a high-severity security flaw impacting NetScaler Console (formerly NetScaler ADM) and NetScaler Agent that could lead to privilege escalation under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12284, has been given a CVSS v4 score of

Microsoft Patches Actively Exploited Power Pages Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 2025-02-20 at 07:21 By Microsoft has released security updates to address two Critical-rated flaws impacting Bing and Power Pages, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2025-21355 (CVSS score: 8.6) – Microsoft Bing Remote Code Execution