Month: October 2024
‘Our customers, the business and our shareholders will feel good about this long term,’ Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said on the company’s latest quarterly earnings call that the vendor expects to spend more than $75 billion on capital in 2025, most of that going toward Amazon Web Services and generative…
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Sophos disclosed today a series of reports dubbed “Pacific Rim” that detail how the cybersecurity company has been sparring with Chinese threat actors for over 5 years as they increasingly targeted networking devices worldwide, including those from Sophos. For years, cybersecurity firms have warned enterprises that Chinese threat actors exploit flaws in edge networking devices…
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How To Have you ever googled yourself? Were you happy with what came up? If not, consider requesting the removal of your personal information from search results. 30 Oct 2024 • , 4 min. read In today’s digital age, maintaining control over your personal information is more crucial than ever. Whether you’re concerned about privacy,…
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‘Our customers have been asking us for more, especially in security and optimization,’ says Jeff Coursen, Evolve IP’s outgoing CEO. ‘This merger allows us to enhance our offerings and meet that demand head-on.’ Solution providers Evolve IP and ATSG announced a strategic merger Thursday to create an IT services company that will generate about $240…
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Microsoft warns that Chinese threat actors use the Quad7 botnet, compromised of hacked SOHO routers, to steal credentials in password-spray attacks. Quad7, also known as CovertNetwork-1658 or xlogin, is a botnet first discovered by security researcher Gi7w0rm that consists of compromised SOHO routers. Later reports by Sekoia and Team Cymru reported that the threat actors are targeting…
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Microsoft is again delaying the rollout of its AI-powered Windows Recall feature after announcing in August that it will be available for Insiders with Copilot+ PCs in October. This comes after the company was forced to drop its plans to release the feature in public preview on June 19, when the new Copilot+ AI PCs…
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Microsoft is investigating a new Windows 11 issue that causes the Task Manager to say there are zero running apps and background processes. However, while the Task Manager doesn’t display the correct number of active processes, this is just a reporting issue: the app is otherwise fully functional and will show the list of running…
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Microsoft did not specify responsibilities Parikh will be assuming as a member of the senior leadership team at the tech giant. Microsoft disclosed Thursday that former Lacework CEO Jay Parikh will join the company in an unspecified senior executive role. In a note to Microsoft employees from CEO Satya Nadella, posted online by the company,…
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Hackers are attempting to exploit two zero-day vulnerabilities in PTZOptics pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) live streaming cameras used in industrial, healthcare, business conferences, government, and courtroom settings. In April 2024, GreyNoise discovered CVE-2024-8956 and CVE-2024-8957 after its AI-powered threat detection tool, Sift, detected unusual activity on its honeypot network that did not match any known threats. Upon examination of…
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Microsoft announced today that Windows 10 home users can delay the switch to Windows 11 for one more year if they’re willing to pay $30 for Extended Security Updates (ESU). The company first announced that Windows 10 home users can buy Extended Security Updates in December 2023, but this is the first time that Microsoft put a…
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