Who's gonna be the closest to the magic number?
Send me a screenshot of your counter.
If you get the actual 700,000 - its a merch goodie bag!
Thanks & Blessings, Don :0)
Nearly half of UK businesses are still getting breached, and in many cases, the attacker's big breakthrough is an employee clicking "sure, why not" on a fake login page.
The UK government's latest Cyber Security Breaches Survey, released on Thursday, puts the hit rate at 43 percent of businesses and 28 percent of charities reporting a cyber incident in the past year, equating to approximately 612,000 UK businesses and 57,000 UK charities, numbers that have barely budged since the last time it asked.
Most of these breaches do not start with anything especially cutting-edge. Phishing leads "by far," usually via impersonation emails that send staff to fake login pages or get them to click links, open attachments, or hand over sensitive information.
Everything else barely gets a look-in. Around 85 percent of businesses that reported a breach or attack said it involved phishing, leaving malware, ransomware, and unauthorized access trailing some distance behind.
Most of these unwanted calendar entries are there for phishing purposes. Most of them warn you about a “impending payment” but the difference is in the subject and the action they want the target to take. Sometimes they want you to call a number, and sometimes they invite you to an actual meeting.
We haven’t followed up on these scams, but when attackers want you to call them or join a meeting, the end goal is almost always financial. They might use a tech support scam approach and ask you to install a Remote Monitoring and Management tool, sell you an overpriced product, or simply ask for your banking details.
The sources are usually distributed as email attachments or as download links in messaging apps. READ MORE -or- contact DONLINE.
Microsoft has committed to improving the quality and reliability of Windows, and a step on the path to that goal is… encouraging a chunk of its US staff to leave the company.
As confirmed by The Register sources, the company has announced, via internal memo, a voluntary buyout scheme for US employees. So if you work in that region, are at the senior director level or below, and if your age plus years of employment at Microsoft comes to 70 or higher – you might be eligible to leap from the gangplank of the good ship Nadella rather than receiving a shove from HR.
There will be some exceptions, including employees with sales incentive plans, but a figure of approximately 7 percent is a guide to how big a chunk of the workforce could be eligible. That translates to just under 9,000 employees.
Microsoft has laid off thousands of employees in recent years. In July 2025, it cut 9,000 jobs, and later that month, the company's CEO, Satya Nadella, wrote that the terminations were "weighing heavily on me." Yeh, Satya - all the way to the bank!
As tech companies race to secure massive power deals to build out hundreds of data centers across the country, these projects represent just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the potential climate cost of the artificial intelligence boom.
