Arch Linux is an independently developed, lightweight Linux distribution known for its simplicity, rolling releases and do-it-yourself approach. Instead of giving you a pre-configured system, Arch gives you a minimal base and lets you build exactly what you want. It...
On the evening of 2 November 1988, a small program released from a computer at MIT began spreading across the early internet. Within a day, it had slowed or crashed thousands of machines at universities, research labs and military sites. The Morris worm was one of the...
Ransomware is malicious software that locks or encrypts an organisation’s data and systems, then demands payment to restore them. Today’s attacks usually go further: criminals steal data first and threaten to publish it if the victim doesn’t pay....
No business is immune to cyber attacks. Ransomware was involved in 48% of breaches in Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, and attackers increasingly get in through unpatched systems and suppliers. What separates a bad week from a business-ending...
A decade ago, Hadoop was almost synonymous with big data. Companies built large on-premises clusters to store and process data that wouldn’t fit in traditional databases. In 2026 the big data landscape looks very different: cloud data warehouses, lakehouses and...
Most server breaches don’t involve clever zero-day exploits. They happen through things nobody noticed: an old user account that still works, a service listening on the internet that shouldn’t be, a forgotten cron job, a package that missed two years of...
