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May 23, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Data Privacy Microsoft on Wednesday outlined its plans to deprecate Visual Basic Script (VBScript) in the second half of 2024 in favor of more advanced alternatives such as JavaScript and PowerShell. “Technology has advanced over the years, giving rise to more powerful and versatile scripting languages such as JavaScript and…
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Robert “Bob” Dutkowsky, who successfully served as CEO at multiple tech companies before taking over IT distributor Tech Data where he was responsible for that company’s rise to the top, was remembered not only as a successful IT businessman but as someone who was just as likely to talk about the importance of building a…
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iPhone photos come back from the dead! Scarlett Johansson sounds upset about GPT-4o, and there’s a cockup involving celebrity fakes. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by special guest Anna Brading of Malwarebytes. Plus!…
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‘For those partners who are building meaningful AI capabilities, we’re giving you access to Dell-validated designs,’ Dell Technologies’ Denise Millard told partners this week. ‘We’re doing the engineering to make sure those deployments are repeatable and scalable, and you don’t have to figure it out on your own. We’re giving you access to Dell Solutions…
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In July that year, NIST selected four encryption algorithms to become part of the agency’s post-quantum cryptographic standard. At the time, Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo welcomed the announcement, hailing it is “an important milestone in securing our sensitive data against the possibility of future cyberattacks from quantum computers,” and saying, “Thanks to NIST’s…
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Nvidia, Avanade and Snowflake were among the standout vendors at Microsoft Build 2024 in Seattle. Microsoft attracted some of the best and brightest AI, cloud computing and security companies, showcasing their latest and greatest offerings at the tech giant‘s annual Build conference this week. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant used the conference – which runs…
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Experts at Lexmark, Sharp, Canon, Brother, Epson, HP and Xerox talk to CRN about six big trends in the printer industry in 2024, from the impact of hybrid work and a growing push for digitization to a lack of awareness around security issues and disruptions among vendors. There have been predictions for decades that offices…
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Microsoft is rolling out Windows 11 24H2 to testers in the Release Preview Channel, confirming that it is in the final stages of testing. “Today, we are making this year’s annual feature update Windows 11, version 24H2 (Build 26100.712) available in the Release Preview Channel for customers to preview ahead of general availability later this calendar year,”…
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Microsoft announced today that it will start deprecating VBScript in the second half of 2024 by making it an on-demand feature until it’s completely removed. Features on Demand (FODs) are optional Windows features (e.g., .NET Framework (.NetFx3), Hyper-V, Windows Subsystem for Linux) that aren’t installed by default but can be added if needed. “Technology has…
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The Microsoft Azure CTO revealed that just by changing 1% of the data set — for example, using a backdoor — an attacker could cause a model to misclassify items or produce malware. Some of these data poisoning efforts are easily demonstrated, such as the effect of adding just a small amount of digital noise…
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