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Friday Squid Blogging: Economic Fallout from Falklands Halting Squid Fishing Details. Blog moderation policy. Tags: squid Posted on August 30, 2024 at 5:04 PM • Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. Source link lol
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Windows 11’s Spotlight feature is a pretty nice way to jazz up your desktop background with different wallpapers and fun facts when you hover over the image icon. The problem with the current approach is that it takes up a good amount of space on the desktop when you try to learn more about the…
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Security researchers have found a vulnerability in a key air transport security system that allowed unauthorized individuals to potentially bypass airport security screenings and gain access to aircraft cockpits. Researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry discovered the vulnerability in FlyCASS, a third-party web-based service that some airlines use to manage the Known Crewmember (KCM) program…
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For the week ending Aug. 30, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Cribl, Check Point, Intel, Citrix and IBM. The Week Ending Aug. 30 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is data management and observability tech developer Cribl for its very impressive nine-figure funding…
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A new malware campaign is spreading a previously undocumented backdoor named “Voldemort” to organizations worldwide, impersonating tax agencies from the U.S., Europe, and Asia. As per a Proofpoint report, the campaign started on August 5, 2024, and has disseminated over 20,000 emails to over 70 targeted organizations, reaching 6,000 in a single day at the…
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HP veteran Stephanie Dismore continues to be a ‘Ryzen’ star in the industry as she takes a new role heading up the EMEA business for chip vendor AMD. HP Inc. Managing Director of Northwest Europe Stephanie Dismore, a 25-year HP veteran, has joined rising CPU and GPU provider AMD as president of EMEA (Europe, Middle…
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The options could also include M&A or selling or splitting its foundry division, according to Bloomberg. Intel executives will consider splitting and selling a business unit as part of a turnaround strategy as rival chipmakers capture a greater share of the artificial intelligence wave, according to media reports. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based vendor has enlisted…
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CrowdStrike’s Adam Meyers is slated to testify before a subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee on Sept. 24. The U.S. House Homeland Security committee has scheduled a hearing for late September over the massive IT outage caused by CrowdStrike’s faulty July 19 update, which will include testimony from a top executive at the cybersecurity…
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North Korean hackers have exploited a recently patched Google Chrome zero-day (CVE-2024-7971) to deploy the FudModule rootkit after gaining SYSTEM privileges using a Windows Kernel exploit. “We assess with high confidence that the observed exploitation of CVE-2024-7971 can be attributed to a North Korean threat actor targeting the cryptocurrency sector for financial gain,” Microsoft said…
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This year’s leading news stories (so far) include the ongoing AI wave that’s remaking the IT industry, the impact of three multi-billion-dollar acquisition deals, the contrasting fortunes of two of the industry’s leading semiconductor companies – and what was likely the biggest IT system failure to date. AI Highs, Service Failure Lows The top news…
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