During the last few years, malicious IoT hacks have grown exponentially with no immediate signs of slowing, while hackers relentlessly pursue new and creative ways to attack and exploit organizations. According to the FBI, within the past six years, attackers have amassed $144 million in ransomware payments alone – and each new attack costs more than the last.
Big Data – A new market research report shows that by 2027, the overall big data security market will grow to $64.4 billion. It’s not surprising. Some reports estimate 90 percent of all global data ever created was created in just the past few years. That’s good news for marketers looking to gain insights into…
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It’s time to rethink legacy backup and recovery systems when you go cloud-native, and portability is key. Cloud – Kubernetes is innovative, but it’s not bulletproof. On June 2, a team of plugin developers working with the Jenkins Artifactory system discovered an error in a Kubernetes deployment they were using. It was serious enough to…
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Accounts belonging to Apple, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos were also hit. Hackers promoting crypto scams took over a number of high-profile Twitter accounts Wednesday, including Bill Gates, Kanye West and Elon Musk, who has been a frequent target of would-be crypto scammers. Joe Biden’s account was also briefly taken over, as was Barack Obama’s. Accounts…
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‘Building the plane while flying it’ is a Silicon Valley idiom that has probably felt a bit too real for the UK’s hardworking IT teams these last few months, faced, as many have been, with a sudden need to enable a remote workforce and ensure business continuity. The use of cloud services has soared, connecting…
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It is amazing how MQ has managed to stay relevant over all of these years. Looking back to when it first came out in the 1990’s, we were dealing with 2400 baud modems connected to remote locations running a number of different technologies, over spotty telephone lines using token ring protocols. Computing power of the…
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