Tag: pro
Telecoms is evolving – and unfortunately, so are DDoS attacks
If you set up a Google news alert for DDoS (distributed denial-of-service), you’d quickly be overwhelmed by the weekly attacks. It’s been relentless for 25 years, and for telcos, which lie among the pile of victims, these attacks are growing more varied. They’re getting larger, too. It’s just that the…
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Thousands of online systems could be hit by new DoS attack
Hackers can render network services completely useless, by putting them in an infinite communications loop. The loop generates large volumes of traffic, which is why the attack is being dubbed “Loop DoS”. This looped denial-of-service attack was discovered by cybersecurity researchers at the CISPA Helmholtz-Center for Information Security, BleepingComputer reports.…
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Microsoft just revealed a major surprise with two new editions of Office
In a world increasingly dominated by subscription-based models, Microsoft has announced the forthcoming release of Office 2024, the latest standalone version of its popular office software. The move is very much welcomed by those who prefer perpetual licenses over monthly subscriptions, with Microsoft 365 continuing to be pushed as a…
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Glassdoor added real names to supposedly anonymous profiles
Glassdoor has started adding people’s full names, and other personally identifiable information (PII) to user profiles without their consent, and expectedly, the people are fuming. For the uninitiated, Glassdoor is a website where people write reviews of their previous and current employers, bosses, and companies. As one might expect, the…
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How Crestron AV-over-IP solution is helping this eSports and hotel business thrive
How much is a million? Here’s one example: If you took one million US dollar bills and laid them end to end, the chain of cash would stretch for 96.9 miles — roughly the distance from Manhattan to the Hamptons out on Long Island. Piling those same bills vertically would…
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Nvidia CEO says don’t give up learning new skills — just maybe leave programming to AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has clarified comments he made about the supposed “death of coding”. Huang had been criticized in the past for saying on several occasions that as AI platforms would soon be doing a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to coding, young people today should…
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