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Image: Midjourney The FBI warned retail companies in the United States that a financially motivated hacking group has been targeting employees in their gift card departments in phishing attacks since at least January 2024. Tracked as Storm-0539, this hacking group targets the personal and work mobile devices of retail department staff using a sophisticated phishing…
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‘ServiceNow and Microsoft are integrating Now Assist and Copilot, bringing the power of two generative AI systems into one seamless experience. This has been made possible by merging the intelligence of Now Assist, the ServiceNow generative AI-powered workflows, with Microsoft Copilot, creating a more holistic, connected experience that allows employees to get the help they…
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“Training techniques that once ran in the hundreds of millions of dollars are now being replicated for a few thousand,” Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks said. Open-source technology has helped academic researchers in artificial intelligence introduce their work to the world faster and will continue to assist in bringing AI to the masses, Red Hat…
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Image: Keeper of the Plains in Wichita (Sepavone) The LockBit ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a disruptive cyberattack on the City of Wichita, which has forced the City’s authorities to shut down IT systems used for online bill payment, including court fines, water bills, and public transportation. Wichita, Kansas, is the largest city in the state, with a population of…
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Once seen as a viable competitor to Nvidia, Graphcore’s business suffered in 2022 from deteriorating macroeconomic conditions that slowed down sales of systems outfitted with its IPUs, and now it’s reportedly in talks to sell itself to Japanese investment giant SoftBank. Japanese investment giant SoftBank Group is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Graphcore, a…
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Microsoft has confirmed that last month’s Windows Server security updates may also cause domain controller reboots after the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) process crashes. LSASS is a Windows service that handles security policies, user logins, access token creation, and password changes. The list of impacted Windows versions and buggy security updates includes Windows…
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Alongside a number of major product launches, vendors have announced funding and acquisitions — and signed a new CISA-backed security pledge — during the massive security conference in San Francisco this week. In and around the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, the majority of the biggest names in the cybersecurity industry have had…
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May 08, 2024NewsroomData Encryption / Hardware Security Researchers have discovered two novel attack methods targeting high-performance Intel CPUs that could be exploited to stage a key recovery attack against the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. The techniques have been collectively dubbed Pathfinder by a group of academics from the University of California San Diego, Purdue…
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Permissions in SaaS platforms like Salesforce, Workday, and Microsoft 365 are remarkably precise. They spell out exactly which users have access to which data sets. The terminology differs between apps, but each user’s base permission is determined by their role, while additional permissions may be granted based on tasks or projects they are involved with.…
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A massive network of 75,000 fake online shops called ‘BogusBazaar’ tricked over 850,000 people in the US and Europe into making purchases, allowing the criminals to steal credit card information and attempt to process an estimated $50 million in fake orders. Additionally, millions of stolen credit card details were resold on dark web marketplaces, allowing other…
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