It has been two years since OpenAI’s generative AI (GenAI) tool ChatGPT was launched, and with many rivals emerging on the market since, GenAI technology is beginning to be deployed in many industries, including the engineering sector, but concerns remain as to its viability and appropriateness. The engineering sector accounts for nearly a fifth of…
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Many enterprises are moving towards use of data lakes to help in managing increasing amounts of information. Such large repositories allow organisations to gather and store structured and unstructured data before handing it off for further data management and processing in a data warehouse, database, enterprise application, or to data scientists and analytics and artificial intelligence…
Cloud data lakes: Where do they fit and what are their benefits? Read More »
Nokia has secured a five-year extension of its long-standing agreement to supply routers and switches to Microsoft Azure datacentres worldwide. The contract will see the Finnish networking company roll out its open source SONiC-based datacentre switches to new and existing Microsoft Azure datacentres. This is in support of the public cloud giant’s push to upgrade…
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Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has scored a major win against the cyber criminal underworld after leading an operation to seize 240 fraudulent websites used by an Egyptian national – named today as Abanoub Nady – who sold do-it-yourself phishing kits under the brand name ONNX to less adept crooks. Nady, who used the handle MRxC0DER,…
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The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) and the United States’ Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), have published updated intelligence on the activities of the dangerous BianLian ransomware operation, after observing a rapid evolution in the gang’s tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs). One of a number of gangs that first came to prominence alongside…
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Switzerland’s national postal service is targeting one million Swiss residents to join its ePost encrypted communications service by the end of 2025. Swiss Post, faced with the prospect of annual falls in demand for traditional postal services, is betting that its ePost mobile app will fill the gap left by the declining use of traditional…
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IT leaders should address their internal processes to minimise their organisations’ IT security risk exposure and attack surface. This becomes ever more complex as business IT environments evolve. Leaders not only need to consider which employees and job roles require access to which IT systems, but also non-human access controls where either an internal or…
Recorded ransomware attack volumes rose by 19% during October 2024 to a total of 468 incidents worldwide, a significant number of them in the US, where the controversial presidential election likely emboldened Russian-speaking threat actors to strike, according to NCC Group’s latest monthly Threat pulse report. Although the full-scale of attempted Russian state interference in…
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Microsoft president Brad Smith has called on United States president-elect Donald Trump not to break step with his predecessor’s work on cyber security, saying that threat actors working on behalf of China, Iran and Russia present an ever greater threat to American and global security. Speaking to the Financial Times, Smith praised president Joe Biden’s…
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OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Search a few weeks ago to some of its paid customers. More users are set to get the feature in the near future. You can even set ChatGPT Search as your default search engine on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge with the help of a clever extension. Also, I found that…
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