Month: June 2024
Over the past week, attackers have hijacked high-profile TikTok accounts belonging to multiple companies and celebrities, exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the social media’s direct messages feature. Zero-day vulnerabilities are security flaws with no official patch or public information detailing the underlying weakness. After being compromised, user accounts belonging to Sony, CNN, and Paris Hilton…
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In opening-day keynotes at the Sapphire conference Tuesday SAP executives unveiled new and extended alliances with AI tech leaders, including Nvidia, AWS and Microsoft, and detailed plans to expand integrations of the company’s Joule generative AI copilot with more SAP products. Application software giant SAP is vowing to infuse AI technology and capabilities across a…
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Intel says the investment will add to the $18.4 billion it has put into Fab 34 so far, and it will allow the chipmaker to ‘unlock and redeploy to other parts of its business a portion of this investment while continuing the build-out’ of the Ireland plant. Intel announced on Tuesday that it has secured…
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American Radio Relay League (ARRL) has shared more information about a May cyberattack that took its Logbook of the World offline and caused some members to become frustrated over the lack of information. ARRL is the national association for amateur radio in the United States, representing amateur radio interests to government regulatory bodies and promoting events and…
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Microsoft, AWS and SnapLogic were among the standout exhibitors during Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024. Alongside the big news Snowflake made about its own products during its annual Data Cloud Summit, plenty of tech giants and smaller vendors used the opportunity to showcase integrations with the data products vendor’s wares. Tools for accessing and getting…
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Today, the FBI issued a warning about scammers using fake remote job ads to steal cryptocurrency from job seekers across the United States while posing as recruiters for legitimate companies. These work-from-home scams are designed to lure potential victims with easy-to-accomplish tasks like rating various businesses online or “optimizing” a service. “The scammers pose as…
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Maryland-based security firm Analygence has landed the job of helping the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reduce mounting backlog of entries in the US National Vulnerability Database (NVD), an agency representative said Tuesday. “I can confirm that Analygence, Inc. won a competitive task order for processing support for incoming CVEs for inclusion in…
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Microsoft has reopened the Windows 10 beta channel and is asking Insiders to join or switch to receive a new beta build in the coming weeks. The announcement comes three years after the last Windows 10 build was released for Insiders in the Beta and Release Preview channels. Windows 10 Insiders eager to test new…
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Cybercriminals are promoting a new phishing kit named ‘V3B’ on Telegram, which currently targets customers of 54 major financial institutes in Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, Greece, Luxembourg, and Italy. The phishing kit, priced between $130-$450 per month depending on what is purchased, features advanced obfuscation, localization options, OTP/TAN/2FA support, live chat with victims,…
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Spending on worldwide public cloud services is expected to reach $219 billion by 2027, according to new data from IDC, benefiting cloud leaders Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft. The market research firm said spending on public cloud services will continue to grow by billions of dollars annually over the next three years as…
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