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Just in time for Black Friday? Samsung may be preparing for launch of 990 Pro successor — PM9E1 SSD is its first PCIe 5.0 SSD but it isn’t aimed at end users

Samsung recently announced that its PM9E1 NVMe Gen 5 SSD has entered mass production. The initial press release was pulled shortly after publication, but the details were later republished by TechPowerUp. The PM9E1 is the successor to the PM9A1 SSD, which launched in 2021, and brings notable improvements in speed,…

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Thousands of fake Microsoft emails are being sent out to trick businesses — here’s what to look out for

The number of phishing emails that masquerade as notifications from Microsoft services is skyrocketing, a new report from Check Point has warned. In the report, the researchers said that just in September, its service caught more than 5,000 such emails – and to make matters worse, the attackers have gotten…

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Microsoft cracks down further on Russian hackers looking to disrupt elections

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has announced a successful operation which disrupted notorious Russian-state actor ‘Star Blizzard’. Since the start of 2023, Microsoft had observed Star Blizzard attack over 30 organizations including NGOs, journalists, and think tanks. The attacks primarily consisted of a spear phishing campaigns to exfiltrate sensitive data…

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Thousands of Zimbra servers attacked following email account compromise

A critical vulnerability has been found in open source collaboration suite Zimbra which allows crooks to run remote code execution on vulnerable servers and deploy malware. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-45519, and is only exploitable when default settings are changed, and the postjournal service is enabled. That, luckily, reduces…

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UK businesses want to spend more on AI, as lack of skills remains an issue

New research from ServiceNow has revealed that a large majority (85%) of UK businesses plan to spend more on artificial intelligence despite initial concerns about how ready their business is. Based on responses from more than 2,000 executives from the EMEA region, the company’s Enterprise AI Maturity Index found that…

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Streamlining IT operations with single-stack networking

As organizations drive to modernize their network architectures to gain benefits from SaaS and Cloud architectures and a distributed workforce, there is a rapid expansion in the cyberattack surface that they face. This poses a growing challenge as organizations grapple with an increasingly complex set of security frameworks to manage…

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