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Data center hardware spending surged last year
Last year saw record worldwide spending on data center hardware and software – and the boom is set to continue. Spending grew by a third, according to analysis from Synergy Research Group, but while there was growth across the board, the rise was mostly down to a 48% jump in spending on public cloud infrastructure, which now accounts for 55%…
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Fake CAPTCHA attacks surged in late 2024 – here’s what to look out for
A new variant of social engineering attack using fake CAPTCHA pages to deceive victims has spiked in the last few months, security experts have warned. Recent analysis from cyber specialists Reliaquest revealed criminals were leveraging fraudulent CAPTCHA pages that mimic trusted services like Google and Cloudflare to trick users into running malicious scripts on their machines. Although the campaign was…
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Open source malware surged by 156% in 2024
The growth of open source malware has continued apace in 2024, according to new research, with cyber criminals taking advantage of the proliferation of open source software. A report from software supply chain management firm Sonatype found there was a 156% increase in malicious packages identified on open source repositories over the past year. Sonatype has identified 778,529 malicious open…
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