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Hertz Corporation has warned about an alarming data breach that might have exposed sensitive customer data to hackers. The rental car company has provided details of the breach, the measures it has taken, and what potentially affected individuals can do to safeguard their personal information, if needed.
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HP Elite t660 Thin Client: Pricing TBA HP's Elite t660 offers solid performance, plenty of connectivity, and an array of accessories, blurring the lines between a traditional thin client and small form factor edge PC. Impressive Thin Client Performance Robust External Connectivity Passive Cooling Means Total...
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Following the launch of Blackwell-based GPUs in the consumer space for gaming, NVIDIA today expanded the reach of its latest-generation GPU architecture into various professional solutions for workstations, servers, and laptops, all of which fall under the RTX Pro Blackwell umbrella. In total, we’re looking at a dozen...
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The NVIDIA GTC AI Development conference started yesterday, but the big announcements are coming in fast and furious today. This one is all about some powerful AI development hardware, known as DGX Spark and DGX Station. These names come out of left field, but the technology upon which they are built is a known...
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Dell UltraSharp 40 Curved Thunderbolt Hub Monitor U4025QW: MSRP $1919, Currently $1489 The Dell UltraSharp 40 U4025QW is a big, beautiful, curved Thunderbolt-enabled monitor featuring a 5K2K resolution and IPS Black panel technology. It's ideal for creators and productivity workers who need excellent color fidelity...
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Phishing attacks continue to surge, with estimates indicating over 800,000 victims in the first quarter of 2024, a 4% rise from the same period the previous year. Attackers persistently try to deceive individuals into revealing their credentials. While Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is commonly used as a defense...
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Apple's USB Restricted Mode, a key iOS security feature since 2018 designed to prevent unauthorized USB data access, has been found to have vulnerabilities exploited in sophisticated cyberattacks. Yesterday, the smartphone giant addressed this security flaw with iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1. The vulnerability allows...
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China's DeepSeek made quite the splash late last month, both within the tech industry at large and by disrupting the US stock market, at least initially. In particular, DeepSeek's open-source R1 model made waves by challenging far more expensive AI solutions—the R1 model was reportedly built on a comparatively meager...
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AMD and Google's Security Team have disclosed a major microcode vulnerability affecting all AMD EPYC processors built on the Zen 1 through Zen 4 architectures. That means EPYC 7001 (Naples), 7002 (Rome), 7003 (Milan), and 8004/9004 (Genoa/Bergamo/Siena) series chips are all impacted. The vulnerability, assigned...
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Malicious actors have a variety of techniques to try and ensnare victims online, one of which is scareware. It entails displaying web pages designed to convince a user that their system has been somehow compromised, but promises to offer a tech support solution that will “fix” the issue. Microsoft is now providing a...
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What if you could have sixteen desktop-class AMD Zen 5 CPU cores and a 96GB professional GPU in a thin & light laptop without compromising performance? Well, that's the promise of AMD's Ryzen AI MAX processors, code-named Strix Halo, and that's the heart that beats under the skin of HP's new ZBook Ultra 14 G1a laptop...
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As more and more sites and services have required login accounts, users have become overwhelmed with having to juggle so many passwords. This typically leads to users making poor choices, such as reusing passwords or passwords that are too simple and inherently unsecure. The situation has improved slightly with...
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Medical device manufacturer Artivion, who specializes in making products used by cardiac and vascular surgeons to treat patients, has been hit with a ransomware attack. It was severe enough attack that it has disrupted the company’s operations to the point it needed to disable some of its systems. The company...
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Security researchers at Any.Run have found a new zero-day attack currently being used by threat actors to evade detection tools used by security professionals. This new technique “evades antivirus software, prevents uploads to sandboxes, and bypasses Outlook's spam filters, allowing the malicious emails to reach your...
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It might seem as if threat actors have been more heavily targeting mobile users lately with malware and exploits, but it doesn’t mean desktop users can drop their guard. Researchers at ESET have discovered a vulnerability in several Mozilla products, which are currently being exploited by a Russian hacking group known...
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At the Supercomputing 2024 conference currently underway in Atlanta, AMD, in collaboration with HPE and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), announced what has been officially declared as the world’s most powerful supercomputer, El Capitan. El Capitan is the first exascale-class machine for the National...
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Wordfence, a cybersecurity company that specializes in making WordPress security products, has found a critical vulnerability in a plugin used by over 4 million internet websites. The company says that “this is one of the more serious vulnerabilities that we have reported on in our 12 year history.”
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Security researchers at Kaspersky have discovered malware, dubbed SteelFox, which has been spreading “via forums posts, torrent trackers and blogs” since February of last year. It’s a potent piece of malicious software that attackers can use to extract a whole host of data from a victim’s computer, and can even enable...
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In what feels like a serious case of déjà vu, a piece of Android malware initially discovered two years ago, and spotted this time by cybersecurity firm Zimperium, is making the rounds again with a new version sporting several alarming advancements. While the malicious app has a new coat of paint, the aim is still the...
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With threat actors constantly targeting Android users with spam to distribute new malware, and even going so far as to repurpose older malware, Google is upgrading Messages to better protect users. The company is bringing “new controls and features to make your conversations on Google Messages even more secure and...
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Kioxia is launching another round of zippy solid state drives for the data center that leverage the PCI Express 5.0 bus, and namely the XD8 series. While you won't find these being offered for consumer desktops or laptops—the come in the Enterprise and Data Center Standard Form Factor (EDSFF)—they offer impressive...
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AMD's cadence in laptop processors has traditionally followed a specific playbook: new consumer Ryzen parts come out, and then a few months later, the PRO versions of those parts hit the market for enterprise and commercial client devices. AMD has been marketing and selling PRO processors since at least the good ol'...
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