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170 million strong data leak traced to US data broker
Cybernews researchers have uncovered a colossal data leak believed to be related to People Data Labs (PDL), a San Francisco-based data broker, containing over 170 million records. Breached data includes sensitive information like full names, phone numbers, emails, location, skills, professional summaries, education history and employment history, putting those affected…
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Tesla has a not-so-secret plan to replace a fundamental-but-flawed building block of the Internet — Musk’s Exascale DOJO supercomputer will use TTPoE instead of the universal TCP and wants the world to embrace it
Tesla is looking to replace the widely-used Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) with its own offering. The company says Tesla Transport Protocol over Ethernet (TTPoE) is designed to support high-speed, low-latency communication, especially in environments where reliable data transfer is essential. TTPoE, integral to Tesla’s DOJO supercomputer, is optimized for the…
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Chinese organizations are being hit by Cobalt Strike malware from within China
Cybersecurity researchers from Securonix discovered a new threat campaign that included phishing, DLL sideloading, and Cobalt Strike beacons, all using Tencent’s infrastructure, and targeting Chinese entities. Tencent is the largest and most popular cloud service provider in China. Apparently, the group (which has not been identified and doesn’t seem to…
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Major tech failures like the CrowdStrike crisis are a stark warning
Today’s society is more dependent on technology than ever before. Virtually every aspect of our daily lives is intertwined with IT infrastructure, from the way we communicate and work to how we access essential services like banking and healthcare. This deep integration means that even the smallest error in a…
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Voldemort espionage malware hits organizations across the globe
More than 70 organizations around the world, operating in different industries, have already been hit by a brand new piece of malware called ‘Voldemort’. This is according to cybersecurity researchers Proofpoint, who observed the novel campaign and wrote an in-depth analysis here. The researchers don’t know exactly who is behind…
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‘The Linux of processors’ — New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC
In 2019, the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) began the “XiangShan” project, aiming to create a high-performance open-source RISC-V processor. The result of this endeavor was the XiangShan processor core, which has gained much attention on GitHub, with over 4,500 stars and 630…
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