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How digital tools are set to transform mortgage application processes
The current mortgage process is challenging for all involved. For customers, purchasing a home is likely the biggest purchase they will make in their lifetime. The knock-on effect is that pressure on mortgage providers to deliver a smooth and supportive service is intense, with customer emotions often understandably heightened. With…
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CrowdStrike hires outside help to track down cause of global outages as it reveals first findings
As CrowdStrike and its enterprise customers recover from the recent outage catastrophe, and it already being public knowledge that a pushed update caused the problem, the company has hired two security firms to look further into the issue. The external code review was announced in a root causes analysis (PDF),…
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Breaking the 1000-core barrier: Ampere unveils roadmap for a 512-core CPU as battle for cloud-native market — but is it already too little too late for the lone Arm chip vendor?
Ampere Computing unveiled its AmpereOne Family of processors in 2023, boasting up to 192 single-threaded cores, which at the time was the highest in the industry. Now, Ampere, founded in 2017 by Renée James, ex-President of Intel, is looking to push the boundaries further with its announcement of the AmpereOne…
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The VPN ban in Turkey is “nothing new,” but there’s still some workarounds
As we recently reported, Türkiye seems to be throttling access to some of the best VPN apps. The move allegedly came as these services become important for both citizens and visitors trying to use Instagram, which has been blocked since last Friday, August 2, 2024. While it is true that Turkish…
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Check that email carefully — experts warn anti-phishing tools in Microsoft 365 can be easily bypassed
Microsoft Outlook users have been warned to take extra care when opening emails from unfamiliar sources following a report claiming its anti-phishing tools can be easily exploited. A report from Certitude researchers William Moody and Wolfgang Ettlinger has shown how anti-phishing measures in Microsoft 365 can be easily exploited and…
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Samsung is offering up to $1 million to anyone who can find security flaws in its software
Samsung has launched a new bug-hunting bounty program to encourage reports on security vulnerabilities across its range of mobile devices. Rewards for local arbitrary execution are in the region of $300,000 while remote code execution (RCE) will see a reward of $1,000,000. The ‘Important Scenario Vulnerability Program (ISVP)’ will have…
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