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Sneak attack from feline friend wipes US government server with cat-astrophic impact — human technician cat-egorically denies involvement
Working from home has its perils, but spare a thought for a technician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, whose cat allegedly deleted an entire server cluster – leading to a four-hour outage last month. The outage apparently happened while the technician was reviewing how a…
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Mirai DDoS could be back, as it adds 13 more router brands to its arsenal
The dreaded Mirai distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet might be set for a return after researchers spotted a lookalike botnet expanding fast. Cybersecurity researchers from Fortinet recently observed a botnet called IZ1H9 adding a dozen new payloads. The botnet is based on Mirai, and targets routers from almost a…
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Google Cloud – here’s why we can be your perfect business partner for generative AI
With generative AI becoming an ever-present in businesses across the world, Google Cloud has doubled down on its commitment to providing the best technology it can for its customers and partners. Speaking at the company’s Google Cloud Next London event, several top executives were keen to emphasise how big a…
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Watch out – even Microsoft WordPad could be a Windows security threat now
Microsoft has fixed a flaw that allowed hackers to abuse the iconic WordPad application to steal NTLM hashes – cryptographic formats in which Windows stores user passwords. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-36563, a 6.5 severity score flaw described as an information disclosure bug. It’s apparently one of two flaws…
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Google says it blocked the largest DDoS attack ever detected
Google says has stopped the “largest Distributed Denial of Service” (DDoS) attack ever, and together with industry peers, discovered the vulnerability that made the attack possible in the first place. In a blog post outlining its work, Google says the blocked attack was 7.5 times larger than the largest-ever recorded…
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Your Google Meet calls are finally going Full HD
Thousands of workers across the globe who rely on Google Meets to collaborate with colleagues and clients are about to get a significant quality boost. From October 2023, Google will support 1080p video streams for group calls after announcing in April that it would be supporting 1080p for one-to-one video…
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