As US takes 10% stake in Intel, new questions arise for enterprise buyers
US President Donald Trump’s announcement Friday that the US government is taking a 9.9% stake in Intel to defend national interests will shift the dynamics of IT procurement globally. “Intel’s new identity as a government-backed ‘national champion’ represents a structural shift in how enterprises must evaluate supplier relationships,” said Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst at […] more…China’s DeepSeek launches V3.1, raising stakes for enterprise AI adoption
Chinese startup DeepSeek has released its largest AI model to date, a 685-billion-parameter model that industry observers say could intensify competition with US players. The model, called DeepSeek V3.1, was made available on the open-source platform Hugging Face this week with little publicity. Despite the quiet rollout, early benchmark results reportedly suggest the model performs […] more…Will anyone be interested in the iPhone 15?
The iPhone 15 will be here in a couple of months, but at this point there’s not a lot of excitement or buzz around its arrival. You might think Apple would be concerned. But it likely doesn’t have anything to worry about Recent Canalys data gives the iPhone around 21% of market share as of Q1 2023 […] more…Will Bing and Edge become the center of the Microsoft universe?
Microsoft has long failed in Internet search and browsing. The company has spent plenty of time, money, marketing and development resources to catch up — to no avail. In search, Google has a stranglehold with 85% of the worldwide search market share in the first quarter of 2023, compared to 9% for Bing. In browsing, […] more…What Is Internet Security?
Internet security is a broad term that refers to a wide range of tactics that aim to protect activities conducted over the internet. Implementing internet security measures helps protect users from different online threats like types of malware, phishing attacks, scams, and even unauthorized access by hackers. In this article, we highlight the importance of […] more…5 Steps to Removing Your Personal Information From the Internet
A recent report by Javelin Strategy and Research found that identity theft cost Americans $56 billion in 2020, with imposter scams accounting for 20% of online fraud. While most internet platforms have stringent data security measures in place to curb cyber fraud, they aren’t always fool-proof. Your user information is available online as a result […] more…Why open-plan offices are a disaster for your company
Before COVID-19, open-plan offices were on the rise. Facebook’s new Menlo Park headquarters boasted the “largest open floor plan in the world,” for example. The open-plan office obsession, which probably peaked around ten years ago, was based on what I’ve called “collaboration bias” — the under-examined assumption that ad-hoc social encounters are more valuable for […] more…Google to invest $9.5B in US offices and data centers this year
Google plans to invest $9.5 billion in US offices and data centers this year, the company said Wednesday. That’s an increase from $7 billion spent on real estate in 2021. The planned spending comes as the company begins to roll out its hybrid work strategy, which will allow many employees to work remotely part of […] more…Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response: interesting cases
Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provides advanced protection against the growing number of threats that bypass automatic security barriers. Its capabilities are backed by a high-professional team of security analysts operating all over the world. Each suspicious security event is validated by our analysts complementing the automatic detection logic and letting us continuously improve […] more…Threats to ICS and industrial enterprises in 2022
Continuing trends In recent years, we have observed various trends in the changing threat landscape for industrial enterprises, most of which have been evolving for some time. We can say with high confidence that many of these trends will not only continue, but gain new traction in the coming year. Further evolution of cyberthreats as […] more…Arizona Launches Command Center to Combat Cyberattacks
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has launched a Cyber Command Center that will deal with threats to government computers. At a ceremony Monday at the Department of Public Safety’s Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center in Phoenix, Ducey said the command center will be critical in ensuring the state’s cyber infrastructure remains safe and secure. read more more…The Art of Ruthless Prioritization and Why it Matters for SecOps
The security operations center (SecOps) team sits on the front lines of a cybersecurity battlefield. The SecOps team works around the clock with precious and limited resources to monitor enterprise systems, identify and investigate cybersecurity threats, and defend against security breaches. One of the important goals of SecOps is a faster and more effective collaboration […] more…European Telecom Company Expands Its Footprint to Better Protect Users and Customers
Hyper-growth and a determination to stand above the crowd compelled a popular Eastern European telecom to upgrade its trusty McAfee Enterprise security infrastructure, which they relied on for many years to protect their 8,000 corporate endpoints. Competitive pressure to keep costs low and cybercriminals at bay for both their internal users and their customers spurred […] more…McAfee Enterprise Defender Blog | MSHTML CVE-2021-40444
Threat Summary Microsoft is warning its users of a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10 and versions of Windows Server that is being leveraged by remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the target system using specifically crafted office documents. Tracked as CVE-2021-40444 (CVSS score: 8.8), the remote code execution flaw is rooted in MSHTML (aka […] more…Do cybercriminals play cyber games in quarantine? A look one year later
Last year, we decided to take a look at how the pandemic influenced the gaming industry and what new threats gamers could be facing. What we found was that, with the transition to remote work and remote learning, the number of blocked attempts to visit malicious game-related websites or follow malicious links from legitimate game-related […] more…COVID-19: Examining the threat landscape a year later
A year ago — everything changed. In an effort to stem the tide of a rapidly spreading pandemic, the world shut down. Shops were forced to shut their doors, and whole countries were placed on stringent lockdowns. Schools were closed around the world, with more than one billion children affected, and the vast majority of […] more…More information
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