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Maine government says data breach affects nearly all state residents
The government of Maine, the northeasternmost US state, appears to have become the latest victim of the MOVEit data breach incident. The state’s government published a statement claiming the attackers stole sensitive citizen data between May 28 and May 29 2023, but that it had just completed notifying the affected…
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SysAid tells customers to patch immediately after Microsoft flags ransomware campaign exploiting new zero-day flaw
SysAid has urged its customers to deploy the latest patch and pay close attention to the traffic in and out of their servers, as hackers were spotted abusing a zero-day flaw to drop ransomware. In a blog post, CTO of SysAid and Profero Incident Response Team Sasha Shapirov noted the…
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Not all firms want employees back in the office – some think hybrid working is still pretty great
If 2022 was characterized by mass layoffs, then 2023 can be summed up by the overwhelming number of companies asking their workers to return to the office. But one study isn’t so sure about the future of office-based working. Research from Riverbed has uncovered that almost all (98%) business leaders…
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Observability-driven automation is essential for compliance
Over the past few years there has been an increasing move towards regulations to ensure safety and responsibility as organizations continue to pursue rapid technology innovation. The EU has led the way in these efforts with GDPR, and more recently the NIS2 directive. NIS2 is the EU’s, if not the…
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AMD, Meta are working on revolutionary tech that could recycle petabytes worth of RAM
Meta has partnered with AMD to showcase a type of memory that can be added onto servers using compute express link (CXL) technology. Using this open standard for a high-speed processor-to-device and processor-to-memory interface, CXL memory can lead to far more efficient use of memory, saving hyperscalers money while boosting…
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Undetectable cryptomining technique found lurking on Microsoft Azure Automation
Someone found a loophole in Azure that allowed them to create free money and never get busted, but instead of using it – they reported it to Microsoft and had it fixed. That someone is a team of researchers from the SafeBreach cybersecurity company, who, as an experiment, set out…
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