Category: Viral
Scammers are flooding Facebook with groups that purport to offer video streaming of funeral services for the recently deceased. Friends and family who follow the links for the streaming services are then asked to cough up their credit card information. Recently, these scammers have branched out into offering fake streaming services for nearly any kind…
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise is pushing the edge computing price performance envelope with a 2U Nvidia AI Ready ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server priced starting at just $2,065 for a configure to order chassis. A ‘Big Breakthrough’ At The Edge Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s new 2U Nvidia AI ready ProLiant DL145 is aimed at once and for all…
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“We’re going to do ourselves a disservice … as an industry if we push people too fast into AI and we don’t give real solutions,” Insight SVP Stephen Moss tells CRN. Artificial intelligence as a service. Managed AI. AI assurance. Solution providers are at work sorting through new practices and new ways to not only…
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The evolution of software always catches us by surprise. I remember betting against the IBM computer Deep Blue during its chess match against the grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, only to be stunned when the machine claimed victory. Fast forward to today, would we have imagined just three years ago that a chatbot could write…
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Sep 18, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware A North Korea-linked cyber-espionage group has been observed leveraging job-themed phishing lures to target prospective victims in energy and aerospace verticals and infect them with a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed MISTPEN. The activity cluster is being tracked by Google-owned Mandiant under the moniker UNC2970, which it said overlaps…
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Sep 18, 2024Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Privacy Google has announced that it’s rolling out a new set of features to its Chrome browser that gives users more control over their data when surfing the internet and protects against online threats. “With the newest version of Chrome, you can take advantage of our upgraded Safety Check,…
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Sep 18, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Encryption The GSM Association, the governing body that oversees the development of the Rich Communications Services (RCS) protocol, on Tuesday, said it’s working towards implementing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to secure messages sent between the Android and iOS ecosystems. “The next major milestone is for the RCS Universal Profile to…
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Sep 18, 2024Ravie LakshmananVirtualization / Network Security Broadcom on Tuesday released updates to address a critical security flaw impacting VMware vCenter Server that could pave the way for remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38812 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as a heap-overflow vulnerability in the DCE/RPC protocol. “A malicious actor with network…
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“We just don’t see copilot as that key step for our future,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says. A partner network for Salesforce’s Agentforce artificial intelligence agent builder tool. Updates to the Data Cloud unified data offering. And deeper partnerships with the likes of IBM and Google Cloud. These are among the biggest announcements to come…
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The January 2023 breach of a vendor’s cloud environment led to the exposure of data from 8.9 million AT&T customers, according to the FCC. AT&T will pay $13 million as part of a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over the 2013 cloud breach of a third-party vendor, which shouldn’t have been holding data…
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