Month: August 2024
A 39-year old man from Somerset, Kentucky, was sentenced to 81 months in federal prison for identity theft and faking his own death in government registry systems. A press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) informs that Jesse Kipf used stolen credentials to access the Hawaii Death Registry System to register himself as…
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‘Security continues to be our top priority,’ according to Microsoft. Microsoft will make the controversial “recall” feature for its artificial intelligence-powered Copilot+ PCs available to Windows Insiders users in October. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant added the new release date to a previous blog post about recall, which was billed as a way for users…
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Today, Google released a new Chrome emergency security update to patch a zero-day vulnerability tagged as exploited attacks. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2024-7971 exists in the wild,” the company said in an advisory published on Wednesday. This high-severity zero-day vulnerability is caused by a type confusion weakness in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine.…
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The company says it expects to have 96 megawatts online by late 2026 with the remainder of the $3 billion build-out finished in a decade. Novva Data Centers said Wednesday that it will open its sixth site on 160 acres of land that it bought at auction last year in Arizona. It plans to infuse…
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Threat actors started to use progressive web applications to impersonate banking apps and steal credentials from Android and iOS users. Progressive web apps (PWA) are cross-platform applications that can be installed directly from the browser and offer a native-like experience through features like push notifications, access to device hardware, and background data syncing. Using this type of…
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Reported claims by Action1 that CrowdStrike was planning to acquire the patch management firm for nearly $1 billion are ‘outrageous,’ CrowdStrike’s Gur Talpaz says in a LinkedIn post. Reported claims that CrowdStrike sought to acquire patch management firm Action1 for nearly $1 billion have no basis in reality, according to a CrowdStrike executive. In a…
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Microsoft announced today that it will start rolling out its AI-powered Windows Recall feature to Insiders with Copilot+ PCs in October. This AI feature takes screenshots of active windows on your PC, analyzes them on-device using a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and an AI model, and adds the information to an SQLite database. You can…
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The open-source observability platform software developer says its fast-growing customer base has increased its annual recurring revenue to more than $250 million. Grafana Labs, developer of a popular open-source observability platform, has collected $270 million in new funding that puts the company’s valuation at more than $6 billion, the company said Wednesday. Grafana Labs, headquartered…
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Email attachments remain one of the most common vectors for delivering malware and other cyber threats. Despite advancements in email security, businesses continue to fall victim to sophisticated attacks that exploit the simplicity of opening an attachment. That’s because email attachments are often used by cybercriminals to deliver a range of malware, including ransomware, banking…
Read MoreMicrosoft announced today that it will start rolling out its AI-powered Windows Recall feature to Insiders with Copilot+ PCs in October. This AI feature takes screenshots of active windows on your PC, analyzes them on-device using a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and an AI model, and adds the information to an SQLite database. You can…
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