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Revealed: How Russia’s Sandworm ramped up attacks on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure

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Google Cloud-backed threat intelligence specialist Mandiant has shared details of a disruptive incident late last year, in which the Sandworm advanced persistent threat (APT) group, backed by Russian’s GRU intelligence and special forces agency, deployed novel techniques in a cyber attack on Ukraine’s power infrastructure. Sandworm is well known for its interest in Ukraine’s critical…

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The Intel Innovation 2023 Keynote Live Blog (8:30am PT, 15:30 UTC)

12 minutes of reading / Acer, AI, Alibaba, API, branding, Cloud, cloud-native, Computer, Dell, HP, Intel, Microsoft, quantum computing, Tech / By

Kicking off this morning is Intel’s annual technology conference, Innovation. The second year of the revived show once again has Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger leading things off, with what’s scheduled to be a 90 minute keynote. Intel has four major themes for this year’s show: Accelerating the AI Era Transformative Innovation for the Future of…

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Dell updates PowerStore, PowerMax and PowerFlex storage

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Dell has updated its PowerStore and PowerMax arrays and PowerFlex software-defined storage to build in greater proactive maintenance, as well as higher capacities in PowerFlex 4.5, lower energy usage in PowerMaxOS 10.1 and better resilience in PowerStore 3.6. Core to the improvements in proactive maintenance are systems that produce more verbose logs to inform Dell’s CloudIQ online AI-enabled monitoring…

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Customers speak out over Okta’s response to latest breach

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Cyber security companies BeyondTrust and Cloudflare have criticised identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta after both became ensnared in yet another cyber attack against the latter’s systems. BeyondTrust said it detected an identity-centric attack on an in-house Okta admin account on 2 October 2023, which used a valid session cookie stolen from Okta. It…

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Solidigm Introduces D7-P5810: 144L SLC NVMe Drive for Write-Intensive Workloads

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Solidigm’s datacenter SSD offerings have been clearly delineated into different categories – the D3- SATA offerings for legacy servers, the D5- QLC-based offerings (with different models offering different tradeoffs between cost and endurance), and the D7- NVMe drives for the best performance and endurance ratings. The company has been using TLC NAND in the D7…

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1Password caught up in Okta support breach

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Credential management software supplier 1Password has disclosed it has been caught up in the same breach of the tech support systems of fellow identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta that impacted BeyondTrust and Cloudflare. 1Password chief technology officer (CTO) Pedro Canahuati said the firm detected suspicious activity on the Okta tenant it uses to…

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Copilots, AI and Azure drive Microsoft revenue growth

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Microsoft has posted revenue of $56.5bn, up 13% for the quarter ended September 30, 2023, partially driven by demand for its AI-infused (artificial intelligence) products and the Azure public cloud. CFO Amy Hood said the company’s Azure cloud platform had experienced higher than expected AI consumption, which contributed to revenue growth in Azure. The company…

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Ofcom refers UK cloud market to CMA for deeper anti-competition probe

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The UK public cloud infrastructure market will be the subject of a further anti-trust probe by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the regulator Ofcom has confirmed. The move has been under consideration since April 2023 when Ofcom released the interim findings of its September 2022 investigation into the inner workings of the UK public…

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Ofcom cloud report: What interventions could the CMA take against AWS and Microsoft?

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Ofcom’s work uncovered three types of prevailing anti-competitive behaviour and practices within the UK public cloud market, which is what prompted it to refer the sector over to the CMA for a more thorough probe.This behaviour included the charging of egress fees when customers attempt to extricate their data from a public cloud provider’s servers,…

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