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Check out CISA’s call for weeding out preventable OS command injection vulnerabilities. Plus, the Linux Foundation and OpenSSF spotlight the lack of cybersecurity expertise among SW developers. Meanwhile, GenAI deployments have tech leaders worried about data privacy and data security. And get the latest on FedRAMP, APT40 and AI-powered misinformation! Dive into six things that…
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‘In SoftBank, we have a partner that can enable the Graphcore team to redefine the landscape for AI technology,’ Graphcore co-founder and CEO Nigel Toon says of the acquisition. Japanese investment giant SoftBank Group has acquired AI chip designer Graphcore as part of what it called its “journey” to artificial general intelligence, or AGI for…
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Here’s a look at 10 open-source software tools – many for building AI applications or managing huge volumes of data – that are either already widely used or are gaining in popularity. A Software Free-For-All Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and…
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‘Everyone wants to get off of VMware and get into the cloud,’ Microsoft Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff says. Microsoft’s new fiscal year has kicked off with hundreds of millions of dollars in partner incentives around security, Copilot and more – and one Microsoft executive took time to thank virtualization and desktop-as-a-service rival VMware for…
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Image: MidjourneyThe American Radio Relay League (ARRL) finally confirmed that some of its employees’ data was stolen in a May ransomware attack initially described as a “serious incident.” ARRL, the National Association for Amateur Radio, said in data breach notifications recently sent to impacted individuals that it detected the “sophisticated ransomware incident” after the attackers…
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Signal is finally tightening its desktop client’s security by changing how it stores plain text encryption keys for the data store after downplaying the issue since 2018. As reported by BleepingComputer in 2018, when Signal Desktop for Windows or Mac is installed, it creates an encrypted SQLite database to store a user’s messages. This database is encrypted…
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Security intelligence firm Group-IB reports that attackers from a recently created ransomware group – EstateRansomware – exploited a year old vulnerability (CVE-2023-27532) in backup software from Veeam as part of a complex attack chain. Anatomy of an attack EstateRansomware exploited a dormant account in Fortinet FortiGate firewall SSL VPN appliances to gain initial access. After…
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The phrase “may have been” signals that JAXA officials are still not certain what was and was not accessed. The agency also shared a cryptic comment that “In the course of taking the above measures and strengthening monitoring, we have detected and responded to multiple unauthorized accesses to JAXA’s network since January of this year—including…
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Google has announced a fivefold increase in payouts for bugs found in its systems and applications reported through its Vulnerability Reward Program, with a new maximum bounty of $151,515 for a single security flaw. “As our systems have become more secure over time, we know it is taking much longer to find bugs – with…
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‘Microsoft achieves reach, scale and success because of you,’ says Nicole Dezen, Microsoft chief partner officer. Microsoft plans more than $150 million in pre-sales and post-sales investments for its Azure Innovate offering, an incremental $90 million “to accelerate security growth” with partners and a tenfold increase to its Copilot partner investment as part of a…
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