February 2024

FBI Warns U.S. Healthcare Sector of Targeted BlackCat Ransomware Attacks 2024-02-28 at 15:46 By The U.S. government is warning about the resurgence of BlackCat (aka ALPHV) ransomware attacks targeting the healthcare sector as recently as this month. “Since mid-December 2023, of the nearly 70 leaked victims, the healthcare sector has been the most commonly victimized,” […]

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Atos confirms sale talks for datacenter and hosting biz have failed 2024-02-28 at 15:32 By Dan Robinson Czech billionaire buyer walks away from ailing Tech Foundations division Troubled tech giant Atos confirmed today that negotiations with the prospective buyer of its legacy IT operation have ended prematurely, coming after the recent cancellation of its rights

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City council megaproject to spend millions for manual work Oracle system was meant to do 2024-02-28 at 14:36 By Lindsay Clark Train-wreck public sector project was forecast to save ‘bankrupt’ council money Europe’s largest local authority has allocated £5.3 million in next year’s budget to pay for manual workarounds deemed necessary after its effort to

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Building Your Privacy-Compliant Customer Data Platform (CDP) with First-Party Data 2024-02-28 at 14:35 By In today’s digital era, data privacy isn’t just a concern; it’s a consumer demand. Businesses are grappling with the dual challenge of leveraging customer data for personalized experiences while navigating a maze of privacy regulations. The answer? A privacy-compliant Customer Data

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On-disk format change beckons for brave early adopters of Bcachefs 2024-02-28 at 14:06 By Liam Proven New versions of both Overstreet’s baby and OpenZFS will hit the street soon New versions of the two leading next-generations filesystems are coming: both OpenZFS 2.2.3, and some time afterwards, an improved bcachefs.… This article is an excerpt from

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Palantir boss says company’s software the only reason the ‘goose step’ has not returned to Europe 2024-02-28 at 13:16 By Lindsay Clark Motor-mouth CEO Alex Karp claims Palantir stopped ‘innumerable’ terror attacks in Europe The CEO of controversial data-mining firm Palantir has claimed that the company’s technology has prevented terrorist attacks in Europe, thereby implicitly

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Superusers Need Super Protection: How to Bridge Privileged Access Management and Identity Management 2024-02-28 at 12:48 By Traditional perimeter-based security has become costly and ineffective. As a result, communications security between people, systems, and networks is more important than blocking access with firewalls. On top of that, most cybersecurity risks are caused by just a few

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Uncle Sam tells nosy nations to keep their hands off Americans’ personal data 2024-02-28 at 12:33 By Jessica Lyons Biden readies executive order targeting China, Russia, and pals US President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that aims to prevent the sale or transfer of Americans’ sensitive personal information and government-related

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Plans to heat districts with datacenters may prove too hot to handle 2024-02-28 at 11:41 By Dan Robinson Report points out the difficulties of getting such a system right Using waste heat from datacenters for district heating makes sense from an environmental standpoint, yet there are implementation challenges and potential pitfalls introduced with any government

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Europe probes Microsoft’s €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral 2024-02-28 at 10:47 By Katyanna Quach Cash-for-Azure-access deal went through just as latest LLM landed The European Commission is investigating Microsoft’s €15 million ($16.3 million) investment in French startup Mistral, which came just after the latter released a large language model to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.…

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TimbreStealer Malware Spreading via Tax-themed Phishing Scam Targets IT Users 2024-02-28 at 10:30 By Mexican users have been targeted with tax-themed phishing lures at least since November 2023 to distribute a previously undocumented Windows malware called TimbreStealer. Cisco Talos, which discovered the activity, described the authors as skilled and that the “threat actor has previously used similar tactics,

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