Category: Viral
Business Security Proper disclosure of a cyber-incident can help shield your business from further financial and reputational damage, and cyber-insurers can step in to help 18 Sep 2024 • , 4 min. read ‘Seek legal advice’, this has to be my top recommendation if you have suffered a cyber-incident that could be deemed material, involves…
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Cybersecurity in healthcare has never been more urgent. As the most vulnerable industry and largest target for cybercriminals, healthcare is facing an increasing wave of cyberattacks. When a hospital’s systems are held hostage by ransomware, it’s not just data at risk — it’s the care of patients who depend on life-saving treatments. Imagine an attack…
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Sep 19, 2024Ravie LakshmananHealthcare / Malware Microsoft has revealed that a financially motivated threat actor has been observed using a ransomware strain called INC for the first time to target the healthcare sector in the U.S. The tech giant’s threat intelligence team is tracking the activity under the name Vanilla Tempest (formerly DEV-0832). “Vanilla Tempest…
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Sep 19, 2024Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / DevOps GitLab has released patches to address a critical flaw impacting Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) that could result in an authentication bypass. The vulnerability is rooted in the ruby-saml library (CVE-2024-45409, CVSS score: 10.0), which could allow an attacker to log in as an arbitrary user…
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‘We’ve changed that $1 million or $1.5 million investment, the minimum requirement to have a fine-tuning machine to create ChatGPT, to $50,000. You no longer need three DGX GPUs anymore. You can do it with a single workstation with four workstation GPUs and with two of our aiDAPTIV+ SSDs that are treated as virtual memory…
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Denzil Samuels, one of Cisco Systems’ leaders in customer experience, has left the tech provider to join global solution provider giant NTT Data to help drive multibillion IT services growth, the executive announced on Wednesday. Top Cisco Systems’ customer experience executive Denzil Samuels has left the company to join NTT Data as senior vice president,…
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The massive campaign targeted U.S. networks through compromising devices including routers and firewalls, according to an advisory from the FBI and other agencies. A massive cyberattack campaign linked to China targeted U.S. networks through compromising devices including routers and firewalls, according to an advisory Wednesday from the FBI and other federal agencies. The advisory from…
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‘Many customers are reporting the OpenAI models are not delivering high levels of accuracy,’ Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said. Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff railed against copilot artificial intelligence products offered by Microsoft and other vendors, touting his company’s agentic approach as one that delivers better accuracy while maintaining the importance of the vendor’s…
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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a never-before-seen botnet comprising an army of small office/home office (SOHO) and IoT devices that are likely operated by a Chinese nation-state threat actor called Flax Typhoon (aka Ethereal Panda or RedJuliett). The sophisticated botnet, dubbed Raptor Train by Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, is believed to have been operational since at…
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‘I want to see more entrepreneurial thinking and a limitless mindset among MSP leaders. Many small to midsize MSPs are the backbone of our economy, and I believe they can achieve great things by thinking beyond their immediate environments and embracing innovative strategies,’ says Sunny Kaila, CEO of IT By Design. Sunny Kaila wants to…
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