A well-known hacker group, called Lapsus$, claims to have hacked Okta's internal systems. Okta is a company that offers authentication services, which are used by a large number of companies around the world. The company announced that it is checking the allegations of the Lapsus$ group about hacking and potential data theft. Lapsus$ points out that he had access to Okta's systems for two months, but that the focus of the hackers was only on Okta's clients. The company has more than 15,000 users, including various government agencies, universities, but also standard companies. Okte's clients... … Read More »

The cyber security market is of great importance to the team at Microsoft, and their future investments could go in that direction. Since Satya Nadella took over the helm of Microsoft, the company has spent more than $ 100 billion on acquisitions. The most resounding name is the most recent one - the takeover of Activision Blizzard for almost 70 billion dollars, which regulators have yet to approve. Prior to that, the largest acquisition was LinkedIn (more than 26 billion dollars), and of the more famous names, Microsoft also bought Mojang, Bethesda, ZeniMax Media and GitHub. The latest... … Read More »

AdDuplex has updated its report, which records Windows 11 acceptance statistics. According to the analytical company, Windows 11 is installed on 16.1% of computers, which used Windows 10 or come with pre-installed Windows 11 software. AdDuplex has not released a new report since November last year, when Windows 11 was installed on 8.6 percent of computers. The latest statistics include data from December and January. Although Windows 11 has almost doubled its market share since November, Windows 10 21H2 has more than tripled its share over the same period. The research company points out that... … Read More »

The announcement of the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft caused a lot of storm in the IT market. However, although it will be the largest so far, it is not the only major acquisition of the company from Redmond. Microsoft was founded in 1975, and during all these years it has gathered a large number of companies, businesses and services. The first company that Microsoft ever bought was Forethought, and the acquisition was made in 1987 for 14 million dollars. Forethought was the creator of the presentation program, later known as PowerPoint. Although not one of Microsoft's... … Read More »