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Many SMBs are all-in on AI – despite not really knowing what it can do for them

The adoption of artificial intelligence among small and medium-sized businesses in the UK seems to have hit a crossroads, as while enthusiasm for AI tools is high, understanding and strategic planning lag behind, new research has claimed. A report from NetApp found only half (51%) of IT decision-makers surveyed understand…

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How ecommerce retailers can ensure consumer safety in 2024

In 2024, online retail is set for growth, but security is crucial. Last year’s festive season saw a 3.7% increase in online spending and a 12.7% rise in ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ (BNPL) methods, expanding the cyber threat landscape. With more frequent and varying online transactions, security concerns are heightened…

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AMD CEO offers to help AI Startup that uses Radeon 7900 XTX GPUs — but will it backfire for Lisa Su as she seemingly supports use of consumer parts in enterprise use cases

We’ve written previously about tinybox. The $15,000 AI server system is powered by AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics cards and can reportedly deliver 37% of Nvidia H100 compute performance. It seems however, that the creators of tinybox have run into problems with bugs affecting the Radeon-based platform. After parent…

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CISA confirms it was breached by attackers using Ivanti flaws, some systems taken offline

One of the organizations compromised through a recently-discovered flaw in Ivanti products was, ironically enough, the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Confirmation of the breach came from CISA itself, as well as from an anonymous source “with knowledge of the situation”, with a CISA spokesperson telling The…

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Thousands of WordPress sites facing malware infection following major plugin hack

More than 3,000 WordPress-powered websites were compromised as a result of not patching a known vulnerability fast enough, a report from cybersecurity researchers Sucuri and PublicWWW has claimed. Sucuri says that over the past couple of weeks, unnamed threat actors were leveraging a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-6000 to redirect people…

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QNAP warns its NAS devices are facing a critical security flaw — but a patch is available, so update now

QNAP is sounding the alarm on its NAS devices, saying they’re vulnerable to flaws that could result in dangerous cyberattacks. The company has said some of its QTS, QuTS hero, QuTScloud, and myQNAPcloud products were vulnerable to three distinct flaws, one of which was particularly dangerous. That flaw is tracked…

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