Category: Viral
We’re looking at startups founded in the past four years that have recently launched new offerings for cloud, data or identity security. As threat actors continue to move away from targeting endpoints as their main focus, attacks aimed at cloud environments and identity systems continue to surge. When it comes to identity, for instance, many…
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While AMD says its forthcoming Instinct MI325X GPU can outperform Nvidia’s H200 for large language model inference, the chip designer is teasing that its next-generation MI350 series will deliver magnitudes of better inference performance in the second half of next year. AMD said its forthcoming 256-GB Instinct MI325X GPU can outperform Nvidia’s 141-GB H200 processor…
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“This strategic acquisition provides the right mix of synergies and growth opportunities for both organizations and aligns perfectly with our focus on investing in opportunities that foster growth and innovation,” said Presidio CEO Bob Cagnazzi. Channel partner all-star Presidio is significantly expanding its market presence in the U.S. by acquiring Charlotte, North Carolina-based Internetwork Engineering…
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As the use of AI and GenAI continues to explode, issues around power consumption have become a hot topic. As businesses’ use of AI and GenAI continues to explode, issues around power consumption, a key component of any company’s sustainability concerns, have become a hot topic. In the face of that shift, a number of…
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Oct 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Disinformation OpenAI on Wednesday said it has disrupted more than 20 operations and deceptive networks across the world that attempted to use its platform for malicious purposes since the start of the year. This activity encompassed debugging malware, writing articles for websites, generating biographies for social media accounts, and creating…
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Oct 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Enterprise Security Cybersecurity security researchers are warning about an unpatched vulnerability in Nice Linear eMerge E3 access controller systems that could allow for the execution of arbitrary operating system (OS) commands. The flaw, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-9441, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0,…
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The current SOC model relies on a scarce resource: human analysts. These professionals are expensive, in high demand, and increasingly difficult to retain. Their work is not only highly technical and high-risk, but also soul-crushingly repetitive, dealing with a constant flood of alerts and incidents. As a result, SOC analysts often leave in search of…
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Oct 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new digital skimmer campaign that leverages Unicode obfuscation techniques to conceal a skimmer dubbed Mongolian Skimmer. “At first glance, the thing that stood out was the script’s obfuscation, which seemed a bit bizarre because of all the accented characters,” Jscrambler researchers said…
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Oct 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting Fortinet products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-23113 (CVSS score: 9.8), relates to cases of remote code execution that affects FortiOS,…
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Oct 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Browser Security Mozilla has revealed that a critical security flaw impacting Firefox and Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9680, has been described as a use-after-free bug in the Animation timeline component. “An attacker was able to achieve code…
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