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Ransomware and BEC are seeing a huge rise — is your business ready?
Ransomware attacks and Business Email Compromise (BEC) campaigns are on the rise once again, new research has said. The annual Arctic Wolf Labs Threat Report claims the median ransom demand rose by a fifth (20%) year-on-year and has now hit $600,000. While ransomware operators target organizations of all shapes and…
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Adobe Acrobat adds generative AI so you can talk to your PDF
Adobe has jumped about the generative AI bandwagon by rolling out its own AI Assistant across Acrobat and Reader. The generative AI-powered conversational tool, currently in beta, is set to provide summaries, answer questions, and help with formatting information to share via email within the popular PDF apps. Though most…
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User identities becoming an increasingly popular target for scammers
Instead of hacking into company networks and corporate accounts, threat actors are increasingly choosing to exploit user identities instead, new research has claimed. Not only is it easier to pull off, such identity theft tactics are also harder for victims to detect, meaning the damage a hacker can do this…
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Here’s what the machine that will build your next laptop CPU looks like — customers including Intel paid $350 million and waited up to six years to get their hands on it
Dutch lithography machine manufacturer ASML recently dethroned Applied Materials to become the world’s largest fab tool maker, and its future looks even brighter following the news that it is gearing up production of its new High-NA (numerical aperture) EUV (extreme ultraviolet) machine. This system, which is around the size of…
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‘Virtually unhackable’ chip could make GPU more power efficient and much faster at AI – by combining light and silicon for a fundamental mathematical operation
A groundbreaking new chip developed by Penn Engineers uses light waves instead of electricity for AI computations, marking a possibly significant leap in processing speeds and energy efficiency. The chip, based on silicon-photonics (SiPh), blends esteemed Penn Professor Nader Engheta’s research on manipulating materials at the nanoscale to perform mathematical…
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Samsung’s popular Magician SSD software has a critical flaw – here is what you need to do if you use it on any Samsung SSD
Samsung‘s Magician SSD software, widely used for managing Samsung’s various memory products, ranging from internal SSDs and portable SSDs, to memory cards and USB flash drives, has been reported to have a critical flaw. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Vulnerability Database, this flaw, designated as…
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