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Zapier tells customers their data may have been accessed
Zapier sends data breach notification letter to affected customers It says a threat actor a 2FA misconfiguration to breach an account They accessed some sensitive customer information Popular automation tool Zapier has suffered a cyberattack which saw the company lose sensitive customer information. News of the attack was reported by…
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Fortifying the UK’s energy sector: The cybersecurity imperative in an AI-driven future
The government’s push to “mainline AI into the veins” of the nation marks a transformative era. However, the very foundation of this progress – the energy grid – has become a lucrative target for malicious actors. AI-driven technologies promise greater efficiency and resilience, yet their dependence on the UK’s energy…
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Microsoft discovers five potentially damaging attacks against its own software
Microsoft patches Paragon Partition Manager, after finding five flaws in a kernel-level driver One of the flaws was being actively used to drop ransomware The driver can be abused even without the partition manager installed Hackers are using a vulnerable Windows driver to escalate privileges through Microsoft software, allowing possible…
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US government cuts key software division without warning
The US government’s General Services Administration department’s 18F has been dissolved Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency seems to be behind the cuts 18F was a software and procurement group which helped a range of government agencies A technology unit from the General Services Administration (GSA) has had its budget…
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Direct-to-chip, single-phase and dual-phase cooling explained
In the datacenter world, one of the biggest challenges – and one of the greatest opportunities – is heat. When server components operate, all the electrical energy they consume is ultimately converted into heat, which must then be removed. Traditionally, organizations have relied on air cooling, typically using fans to…
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I praise Lenovo for trying to revive glasses-free 3D, but its gorgeous ThinkBook 3D laptop is too little, too late
Lenovo unveils the ThinkBook 3D Laptop, a glasses-free 3D computing concept It uses Directional Backlight 3D for seamless switching between 2D and 3D modes 3.2K display aims to enhance design, engineering, and content creation workflows For most laptop manufacturers, the height of innovation is rolling out devices with powerful AI…
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