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  The world of the cybernetic era was forever changed when the SolarWinds' Orion platform was compromised by hackers in 2020 and over 18,000 organizations worldwide were compromised. SolarWinds placed the number of possibly impacted companies at up to 18,000 but only around 100 have been confirmed to have been actively targeted. Flash forward to 2023, and we witnessed yet another devastating supply chain attack via Progress Software's MOVEit file transfer software, affecting more than 600 organizations worldwide, making it one of the biggest supply chain attacks to be seen to date. These attacks are not isolated events. By 2025, Gartner estimates that 45 percent of all organizations globally will have been the victim of a software supply chain attack, a three-fold increase from 2021. The warning is clear: security perimeters in the classic sense are no longer effective when threats can be injected through trusted vendor relationships. Understanding the Modern Supply Chain Threa...

With the ongoing evolution of the world of cyber, so evolves the world of cybersecurity. With an outgrowth of deep threats, innovative defense strategies, and newly emerging weaknesses in 2025, as a business executive, IT specialist, or security enthusiast, it is important to stay current with these trends to remain ahead of the times — or at least not behind. From Zero Trust Architecture to quantum attacks, the following blog delves into the most prominent cyber security trends that are making waves in 2025 based on industry reports from goliaths such as Check Point Software, Google Cloud, and Verizon. 1. Zero Trust Architecture Boom 2025 is the time when firms begin to transition to Zero Trust, or ZTA. While firms are leaving behind the old perimeter-based model of security — where everything inside the company firewall was trusted — Zero Trust becomes more and more central to protecting against cyberattacks. It's not a strategy; it's a necessity in the remote worker, cloud w...

  Your password can already be in a hacker's possession—and you'd never even know. Imagine this: while you're reading this, cybercrooks are already selling your login info on black marketplaces. The cost? Between $2 for your Gmail login and $40 for your bank information. This is not scare-mongering—it's the cold reality revealed by what security experts are calling one of the biggest credential collections ever. A whopping 16 billion login records have been found in what seems to be an enormous collection of stolen credentials, including the big players such as Apple, Google, Facebook, and thousands more. To give some perspective, that's approximately two leaked accounts per person on the planet. Your online identity—the passwords you rely on to safeguard your most personal data—could be sitting in a criminal database at this very moment. The Scale: What Does 16 Billion Exposed Logins Actually Mean? The figures are nearly unimaginable. Sixteen billion login credenti...