AT&T resets thousands of user passwords as it confirms breached data was its own after all

[ad_1] American telecommunications behemoth AT&T has finally confirmed the authenticity of the 2021 data breach that spilled sensitive user information on the dark web, and has initiated a mass reset of user passcodes. Roughly three years ago, privacy blog RestorePrivacy broke the news of a hacker selling sensitive data belonging to more than 70 million … Read more

Leveraging big data for strategic business decisions

[ad_1] Organizations today heavily rely on big data to drive decision-making and strategize for the future, adapting to an ever-expanding array of data sources, both internal and external. This reliance extends to a variety of tools used to harness this data effectively. In the modern business environment, with an estimated 2.5 quintillion bytes of data … Read more

Navigating the shift to AI-driven data management

[ad_1] In today’s dynamic business landscape, data management stands as a critical cornerstone, directly influencing an organization’s agility and innovation capabilities. The digital age demands that companies reassess their data management strategies, particularly the reliance on traditional master data management (MDM) systems. These legacy systems, often entrenched due to the ‘sunk-costs’ fallacy, hinder progress and … Read more

VR headsets could be hacked in “Inception-esque” attacks — with attackers able to steal your data without you even noticing

[ad_1] If someone were to infect your Meta Quest VR headset with malware, they could trick you into seeing things in the virtual world which weren’t real, experts have warned. Academics from Cornell University recently published a paper describing the possibility of hijacking people’s VR sessions and controlling their interactions with internal applications, external servers, … Read more

The NSA Warns That US Adversaries Free to Mine Private Data May Have an AI Edge

[ad_1] Electrical engineer Gilbert Herrera was appointed research director of the US National Security Agency in late 2021, just as an AI revolution was brewing inside the US tech industry. The NSA, sometimes jokingly said to stand for No Such Agency, has long hired top math and computer science talent. Its technical leaders have been … Read more

Data loss affected four out of five organizations in 2023

[ad_1] Four out of five organizations around the world (85%) suffered at least one data loss incident last year.  This is according to a new report from cybersecurity researchers Proofpoint, which says that most of the time, it’s not the computers’ fault – it’s ours. Earlier this week, Proofpoint published its inaugural Data Loss Landscape … Read more

AT&T denies leaked data of 70 million people is from its systems

[ad_1] A hacker is selling a huge archive on the dark web, claiming it originated from a 2021 data breach at American telecommunications giant AT&T – however the company denies the data originated from its servers. BleepingComputer reported a threat actor with the alias ShinyHunters posted an ad on the RaidForums for the sale of … Read more

‘Algae recycled into energy’: How one of Europe’s largest data center firms wants to harness heat from GPUs and others to grow sustainable marine flora — but will it be worth it?

[ad_1] Data centers produce a lot of waste heat that could one day be recycled and used to heat millions of homes. Now, French data center company Data4 has partnered with the University of Paris-Saclay to launch a project that aims to use data center heat to grow algae, which can then be recycled into … Read more

Newly discovered Microsoft Z1000 SSD baffles experts — no, world’s most valuable company won’t start selling SSDs anytime soon but it may well be tinkering with data center storage as it did with CPU

[ad_1] A newly-discovered, Microsoft-branded SSD suggests the tech giant may be – or has been at least – exploring new ways to optimize its data center storage. The leaked images of a Microsoft Z1000 SSD show a 1TB NVMe M.2 drive, apparently boasting sequential read speeds of up to 2,400MB/s and write speeds of 1,800MB/s. … Read more