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GenAI demand fuels record sales of datacentre hardware and software in 2024

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Demand for generative artificial intelligence (AI) services is being cited as the reason why spending on datacentre hardware and software hit a record high in 2024. According to figures from IT analyst Synergy Research Group, total spending in the datacentre hardware and software market was up 34% year-on-year during 2024, as a result of hyperscale…

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The Security Interviews: Martin Lee, Cisco Talos

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The first thing worth knowing about the first ever ransomware locker is that its use was apparently motivated by revenge rather than outright criminality. The second thing worth knowing is that there was not a Russian speaker in sight. In fact, its author, Joseph Popp, grew up in Ohio and was educated at Harvard University.…

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Gambling cloud provider bets on Nutanix and cools on VMware

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Cloud provider Continent 8 has shifted its virtualisation environment to Nutanix from VMware, in a move partly driven by changes to VMware licensing, but also in an infrastructure shift to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and because of influence gained in its ongoing partnership with Nutanix. The move has seen Continent 8 shift the bulk of its…

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NetApp boosts AFF, StorageGrid and E-series hardware with 60TB drives

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NetApp has upgraded its AFF A- and C-series flash storage arrays while also boosting capacity and performance in StorageGrid object storage and E-series storage area networks (SANs), mostly as a result of new 60TB arrays plus central processing unit (CPU) and backplane enhancements. AFF A- and C-series – performance and capacity-oriented respectively – get new-generation…

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Zero-day exploits increasingly sought out by attackers

3 minutes of reading / API, Atlassian, Cisco, Cloud, Fortinet, Microsoft, Tech, VPN / By

Threat actors – both state-backed and financially motivated – are increasingly taking advantage of previously unknown vulnerabilities, or zero-days, to compromise their victims before fixes or patches are made available by the tech industry, according to an advisory published by the Five Eyes cyber agencies, including the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the…

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China’s Volt Typhoon rebuilds botnet in wake of takedown

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The Chinese state threat actor most famously known as Volt Typhoon is staging a significant comeback after its botnet infrastructure was disrupted in a US-led takedown at the beginning of February 2024. Volt Typhoon’s malicious botnet comprised hundreds of Cisco and Netgear small and home office (SOHO) routers that had reached end-of-life (EOL) status and…

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tvOS 17: Features, release date, Apple TV compatibility, more

12 minutes of reading / AirPods, Amazon, API, Apple, Apple TV, Cisco, HomePod, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, Tech, VPN / By

tvOS 17 was Apple’s previous operating system for Apple TV and HomePod. After two years of minor updates, Cupertino finally gave this operating system keynote time and announced several new features. Here’s everything you need to know about tvOS 17.To learn more about Apple’s latest Apple TV operating system, BGR has a complete guide for…

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Tech sector layoffs mount amid AI investment frenzy

5 minutes of reading / AI, Alphabet, Amazon, automation, Azure, Cisco, Dell, Google, IBM, machine learning, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, Tech, Technology / By

Workforce reductions are mounting across the tech sector globally as firms attempt to free up more resources for their artificial intelligence (AI) deployments. According to tracking website Layoffs.fyi, tech companies laid off more than 165,000 people in 2022 and 264,000 people in 2023, with the latest data showing that 410 tech firms have laid off…

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Chinese cyber attack sparks alert over six-year-old MS vuln

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The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a Microsoft vulnerability dating back to 2018 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue after evidence emerged that it is being used in an attack chain by the China-backed APT41 advanced persistent threat group. CVE-2018-0824 was first addressed by Microsoft in the May 2018…

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2024 seeing more CVEs than ever before, but few are weaponised

4 minutes of reading / Cisco, Fortinet, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Tech, threat intelligence / By

Over the first seven-and-a-half months of 2024, the number of newly-disclosed common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) soared 30% year-on-year from 17,114 to 22,254, according to data published by Qualys researchers. However, out of this huge number of flaws, barely a hundredth – 204 or 0.9% – were weaponised by threat actors, said Qualys, the majority…

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