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Former DEC employees to rally against stagnant pensions post-HP 17/08/2023 at 13:46 By Paul Kunert What do we want? Discretionary increases. When do we want them? Since 2002 Retired Digital Equipment Corporation employees are scheduling a protest day outside of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s UK headquarters over its refusal to increase their pensions – something the […]

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Russian Hackers Use Zulip Chat App for Covert C&C in Diplomatic Phishing Attacks 17/08/2023 at 12:50 By An ongoing campaign targeting ministries of foreign affairs of NATO-aligned countries points to the involvement of Russian threat actors. The phishing attacks feature PDF documents with diplomatic lures, some of which are disguised as coming from Germany, to

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Rising labor and component costs lead to UK product and service price hike at IBM 17/08/2023 at 12:33 By Paul Kunert Big Blue looks back at 2022 in Britain, one of the world’s economies worst ‘hit hardest’ by pandemic Products and services price hikes were initiated by IBM UK in 2022 to offset rising labor

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Brit ISP’s ads ‘misleadingly implied’ existence of 6G, says watchdog 17/08/2023 at 11:35 By Jude Karabus UK biz says folks know the difference between fixed and mobile broadband. Do they, though, asks ASA? Despite “diagrams” and in-depth descriptions of exactly how its “full fibre directly to your home” fixed line product works, UK ISP 6G

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Cisco close to clearing the backlog of hardware orders a certain virus caused 17/08/2023 at 10:47 By Simon Sharwood Subscriptions and software surge – just the way boss Chuck Robbins planned Cisco has almost cleared the massive backlog of orders it racked up after COVID-19 kicked holes in its supply chain.… This article is an

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Google reportedly designing chatbots to do all sorts of jobs – including life coach 17/08/2023 at 09:32 By Katyanna Quach Machines have no experience in the real world, so why would you turn to them for advice? Google is reportedly developing generative AI tools to power chatbots capable of performing 21 different tasks – including

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CISA Adds Citrix ShareFile Flaw to KEV Catalog Due to In-the-Wild Attacks 17/08/2023 at 08:16 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical security flaw in Citrix ShareFile storage zones controller to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active in-the-wild exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2023-24489 (CVSS score: 9.8), the

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Japan’s digital minister surrenders salary to say sorry for data leaks 17/08/2023 at 08:02 By Laura Dobberstein The My Number card mess remains unsolved as trust in e-government remains muted Japan’s digital minister has doubled down on a June promise to penalize himself for the poor rollout of the country’s digital ID, My Number Card,

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9 Steps to Protect Against the Next MOVEit/MFT Attack 17/08/2023 at 07:17 By By now, the facts of the recent MOVEit breach are well known (although the victim total keeps climbing), but it never hurts to be reminded that these attacks do not take place in a vacuum and threat actors are more than happy

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Vietnam admits it has just ten percent of the infosec pros it needs 17/08/2023 at 06:05 By Simon Sharwood Which is a problem, because local orgs are leaking data and shadowy traders are cashing in Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications has admitted the nation has a vast shortfall of infosec pros.… This article is

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Western Digital sued over claims of data-trashing SanDisk, My Passport SSDs 17/08/2023 at 04:01 By Thomas Claburn These drives are anything but solid – they wipe files without warning, guy complains Western Digital was sued on Tuesday on behalf of a California resident who claims the solid state drive he bought from the manufacturer was

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Discord.io pulls the cord after crooks steal 760K users’ info 17/08/2023 at 02:08 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Cleanup will involve ‘complete rewrite of our website’s code’ Discord.io has shut down “for the foreseeable future,” after crooks stole, and then put up for sale, data belonging to all 760,000 of the service’s users.… This article is

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Humans stressed out by content moderation? Just use AI, says OpenAI 17/08/2023 at 01:34 By Katyanna Quach Tired? Drink coffee, says Starbucks. Bored? Try whiskey, says Jameson. Lazy? Why not drive, says Ford. Etc etc GPT-4 can help moderate content online more quickly and consistently than humans can, the model’s maker OpenAI has argued.… This

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