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After Nvidia, Samsung vows to abandon consumer focus and concentrate on lucrative enterprise market instead — surge in HBM, enterprise SSD, DDR5 server memory chip expected to drive margins
Nvidia has transformed into an AI superpower, becoming the third most valuable company in the world off the back of it, so it’s perhaps no surprise other tech giants are looking on in envy and shifting their focus to follow suit. During its recent earnings call, Samsung reported a consolidated operating…
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Many top VPN apps can be hacked and almost totally ruined by this attack
Cybersecurity researchers from Leviathan Security have flagged a potentially major security concern around VPN services. The team recently uncovered a vulnerability that forces almost all such apps to send and receive traffic outside the VPN tunnel, which is essentially their entire purpose. The findings on the flaw, named TunnelVision, were…
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Iranian hackers pose as journalists to push backdoor malware
APT42, an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group also known as Charming Kitten or Yellow Garuda has been spotted impersonating journalists from popular mainstream media titles in an attempt to deliver multi-purpose backdoors to their targets. A report from Google cybersecurity researchers found the threat actors would first set up email addresses…
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IT chiefs plan to spend and innovate their way out of ransomware swamp
Ransomware is the scourge of the contemporary CIO’s data defenses. It’s the security infraction that makes for, quite literally, sleepless nights because it affects not just IT departments and SOCs but the whole operational function of the organization, reaching out to its partners and customers. At the same time, it…
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LockBit ransomware site returns — but don’t worry, it might actually be OK
The website of ransomware hackers LockBit, which was seized by police and shut down, has relaunched. However, it wasn’t the hackers that propped it back up, but rather the law enforcement agents who originally seized it. The refreshed website includes some new details about the group and its leader. Some…
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We may all hate them — but it seems parrots don’t mind video calls
Four years ago and almost overnight, the world went digital. With workers globally sent home as governments started issuing pandemic warnings, companies were forced to adopt new, online ways of working. Today, the thought of joining yet another video conferencing call fills many of us with dread, and recent years…
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