Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday drop has arrived, addressing a total of five publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities – two of them exploited in the wild, and three other critical issues for attention – in a relatively large update. Although moderate in their severity, carrying CVSS scores of 7.8 and 6.5 respectively, the two exploited zero-days should…
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Threat intelligence specialist Recorded Future has revealed details of how it is now able to find – and alert – future victims of the Rhysida ransomware gang before it has a chance to deploy its ransomware locker. Rhysida, perhaps most famous in the UK for the late-2023 attack on the British Library, has been active…
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Anglian Water is the largest water and wastewater company in England and Wales. In its Water resources management plan for 2024, the company discusses the value of digital technologies to enable it to reduce water leaks. The 2024 plan revises its water leak reduction targets to a 38% reduction by 2050. In the document, Anglian…
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Thousands of applications that have taken advantage of open source Python Package Index (PyPI) software packages may be at risk of hijacking and subversion by malicious actors, opening up the possibility of major supply chain attacks affecting even greater numbers of downstream organisations and users. That is according to threat researchers at jFrog, who identified…
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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its counterpart bodies in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have joined partners from Czechia, Estonia, Germany, Latvia and Ukraine to identify a Russian military cyber unit that has been conducting a sustained campaign of malicious activity over the past four years. Part of the Main Directorate of…
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It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Alibaba are among…
AMD’s FSR 3.1 only launched last week, on June 27, with support for a handful of games to begin with, but already some fresh testing has revealed that DLSS 3.7, the latest take on Nvidia’s rival upscaling solution, is still miles ahead with its image quality.Digital Foundry’s testing also showed off how FSR 3.1’s frame…
Security leaders and software developers will benefit from deeper visibility into their organisations’ software development security posture as they work, bolstering moves towards the nirvana of so-called secure-by-design code, with the introduction of an industry-first solution from sector specialist Secure Code Warrior (SCW). SCW Trust Agent comes hot on the heels of the introduction of…
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This week, a report by Wired revealed that Apple, NVIDIA, and other tech companies were using hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos to train their AIs. The YouTube Subtitles dataset had video transcripts from education and online learning channels, from MIT and Harvard to Mr. Beast, MKBHD, and PewDiePie.After the controversy, Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac…
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The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases. The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…
