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Major data breach leaks highly sensitive donor records of multiple charities
A database of nearly one million records, including information of a donor platform, has been discovered online without password protection. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler is credited with finding more than 948,000 records in a database measuring over 465GB that is believed to belong to DonorView, a software provider for nonprofits.…
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Broadcom ends VMware perpetual software licenses following takeover
Following its recent acquisition of VMware, Broadcom has announced that it will transition the business to a subscription-based model, removing the perpetual licenses with immediate effect. According to the company’s announcement, the industry has embraced subscription-based models as the standard when it comes to cloud consumption, and the move comes…
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FTC warns QR codes can steal money and install malware
When you scan a QR code, how sure are you that you know exactly where it will take you and what it will do? QR codes have become a convenient part of everyday life, and most of us will see at least one every day. But scammers are abusing their…
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Meta has done something that will get Nvidia and AMD very, very worried — it gave up on GPU and CPU to take a RISC-y route for AI training and inference acceleration
The RISC-V movement has been given a massive boost after Meta revealed it is primed to begin mass development of hardware and products with the technology at its core. RISC, an alternative Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) to the x86 architecture used by the likes of Intel and AMD in their…
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Thousands of WordPress websites could be put at risk by this serious security bug
A recently disclosed vulnerability affecting the ‘Backup Migration’ WordPress plugin has been assigned a severity score of 9.8 out of 10, but things may not be as bad as it seems because there’s a patch available now. The security bug, tracked as CVE-2023-6553, affects all versions up to (and including)…
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Another top US health provider sees millions of patient records stolen – here’s what we know
Kentucky-based healthcare provider Norton has confirmed that it has suffered a significant ransomware attack that may have put the data of millions of its patients at risk. In a filing to the Maine Attorney General on December 8, the healthcare giant said that 2.5 million individuals had been affected by…
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