Month: April 2024
It’s been said before—long before. It’s the 18th-century philosopher Voltaire who gets credit for the timeless proverb “Perfect is the enemy of good.” But here we are, centuries later, and it’s still relevant—in this case to modern software development. If you try to make software perfect, not only will you fail at that, but you’ll…
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Russian hacker group Sandworm aimed to disrupt operations at around 20 critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, according to a report from the Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA). Also known as BlackEnergy, Seashell Blizzard, Voodoo Bear, and APT44, the hackers are believed to be associated with Russia’s Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed…
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Bots are not new. Attackers have used bots to achieve scalability in a variety of attack techniques for decades, and defenders have been fighting bots, to varying degrees of success, for just as long. However, two events in 2022—the prolonged acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, with its attendant discussion about exactly how much of…
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Tenable®, the Exposure Management company, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, named five Tenable channel leaders to the prestigious 2024 CRN® Channel Chiefs list, which recognizes the IT vendor and distribution executives who are driving strategy and setting the channel agenda for their companies. CRN named the following Tenable leaders as 2024 Channel…
Read MoreMS-ISAC ADVISORY NUMBER: 2024-008 DATE(S) ISSUED: 01/22/2024 OVERVIEW: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VMware vCenter Server and Cloud Foundation, the most severe of which could allow for remote code execution. VMware vCenter Server is the centralized management utility for VMware. VMware Cloud Foundation is a multi-cloud platform that provides a full-stack hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)…
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Salesforce has dropped its acquisition plans to buy data management software company Informatica for an estimated $11 billion, reports indicate. Salesforce has reportedly backed away from its pursuit to acquire Informatica, a data management software specialist, for roughly $11 billion. Both sides couldn’t agree on the terms of the deal and talks have now come…
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“You are what you eat” applies figuratively to humans. But it applies literally to the large language models (LLM) that power generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools. They really are what they eat. If the massive datasets fed to LLMs from websites, forums, repositories, and open-source projects are poisoned with bias, errors, propaganda, and other junk,…
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Check out why the Cyber Safety Review Board has concluded that the Microsoft Exchange Online breach “should never have occurred.” Plus, warnings about the supply chain attack against the XZ Utils open source utility are flying. In addition, a report says ransomware attacks surged in February. And the U.S. government issues a comprehensive AI usage…
Read MoreFrom January to April 2023, Healthcare had the highest levels of unwanted Web automation. However, this automation saw a significant decrease in May 2023 before rebounding in June. The Hospitality industry has seen a steady increase in automation starting off as the eighth most targeted industry in January 2023 with 11.7% automation. This peaked in…
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