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Still use Skype at work? Bad news, hackers are targeting it with dangerous malware
Criminals found using Skype to deliver images hiding malware Victims were mostly SMBs in the Middle East The malware is new, but seems to have distant relatives Cybercriminals have been found using Skype messenger to deliver Remote Access Trojans (RAT) malware, compromising victim’s computers and opening the doors for devastating…
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Hacker behind “Rapper Bot” DDoS-for-hire Botnet which carried out over 370,000 attacks arrested
A 22-year-old Ethan Foltz was recently arrested He’s being suspected of building, and renting, an enormous DDoS-for-hire botnet called Rapper Bot Since the arrest, there were no reports of new Rapper Bot activity A 22-year-old Alaskan man has been arrested under the suspicion of building, maintaining, and renting “one of…
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Major hack hit NY Business Council – over 47,000 people affected, here’s how to stay safe
BCNYS suffered a cyberattack in February, and discovered it in August Sensitive personal, payment, and healthcare information, was stolen There’s no evidence of in-the-wild abuse yet The Business Council of New York State (BCNYS), an association representing businesses, chambers of commerce, and professional organizations across New York, has confirmed it…
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Coming for your job? Most Americans now fear AI will cause widespread cuts for humans
71% of US citizens believe AI could cause permanent job loss Only one in three think AI is helpful in education Unemployment rates are broadly unchanged A new Reuters/Ipsos study has found nearly half (47%) of Americans believe AI is bad for humanity, and in terms of more than just…
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Why Baidu’s Ernie matters more than DeepSeek
A few months ago, Chinese LLM DeepSeek-R1 made headlines. The world was introduced to an open-source AI model that matched OpenAI o1’s reasoning abilities at a fraction of the cost. A relatively obscure startup topped Apple’s App Store rankings and sent shockwaves through global stock markets. DeepSeek’s breakthrough proved AI…
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The rise of sovereign clouds: no data portability, no party
The rise of sovereign clouds has become inevitable as regulatory demands, and geopolitical pressures push enterprises to rethink where their data resides. Localized cloud environments are increasingly becoming essential, allowing organizations to keep their data within specific jurisdictions to meet compliance requirements, and provide risk mitigation. But sovereign clouds can’t…
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