Eoin Higgins

2 weeks ago | itbrew.com | Eoin Higgins

The tech jobs market continued its tense 2025 holding pattern in March, as the unemployment rate fell ever so slightly and industry employers largely appeared to be holding their breath. A CompTIA analysis found that March’s 3.1% tech unemployment was a slight drop from February’s 3.3% as the national rate barely ticked up from 4.1% to 4.2%. But that shouldn’t be taken as stability; the tech jobs market has fluctuated over the past year, showing a general uncertainty.

2 weeks ago | itbrew.com | Eoin Higgins

In like a lion, out like a lamb—the C-suite was moving in March. Here’s who went where. Phillip Miller heads to H&R BlockTurns out, you can hack your way to the top. That’s what Phillip Miller, author of Hacking Success: How Owners and Officers Should Cultivate Policy for Cybersecurity and Use of Artificial Intelligence, has found. He’s H&R Block’s new CISO.

3 weeks ago | itbrew.com | Eoin Higgins

Another day, another opportunity for Elon Musk to open a potential Pandora’s box of IT security risks inside the federal government. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a Trump administration initiative effectively run by the tech billionaire, has now reportedly accessed internal federal payrolls affecting around 276,000 people working at dozens of agencies, according to the New York Times.

3 weeks ago | itbrew.com | Eoin Higgins

Elon Musk’s Starlink is all over the White House—and that’s raising eyebrows about IT security in the oval office and the president’s residence. White House use of the satellite WiFi network, which is a project of Musk’s SpaceX, was reported on by the New York Times on Mar. 17. The system was donated to the administration by the billionaire, White House officials told the Times.

4 weeks ago | itbrew.com | Eoin Higgins

Modern threats require modern solutions. Secure your entire org with Threatlocker’s enterprise-level security software. Prevent ransomware and reduce your risk of cyberattacks with zero-trust endpoint protection. Head to the record store. That’s the message from the threat actor rose87168, who is selling around six million records obtained from Oracle Cloud’s single sign-on (SSO) and lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) systems.