Tenable

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Important CVE-2024-43451 | NTLM Hash Disclosure Spoofing Vulnerability CVE-2024-43451 is a NTLM hash spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. Successful exploitation would lead to the unauthorized disclosure of a user’s NTLMv2 hash, which an attacker could then use to authenticate to the system as the user.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Because Windows 11 Pro has new hardware requirements, your upgrade strategy must both address hardware and software aspects, not to mention security, deployment plans, training, and more. Then, check with the software vendors to see if the applications are compatible with Windows 11 Pro.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Image Credits: Kalawin (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. The Log4Shell exploit that gave bad actors the ability to execute malicious code on infiltrated servers made global headlines and ruined many cybersecurity professionals’ holidays.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Theres a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. They were succeeded by programmers writing machine instructions as binary code to be input one bit at a time by flipping switches on the front of a computer. Consumer operating systems were also a big part of the story. I dont buy it.

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The Parallax

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Consumer-grade VPNs that work on your Windows, Mac, Android, or iOS devices are effective and affordable. Step 5: Keep your software up-to-date. Whether you’re using an iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, or Linux device, one of the easiest ways to avoid getting hacked is to ensure that all your software is up-to-date.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

AUGUST 21, 2024

Customer reviews can reveal customer experiences with a product and serve as an invaluable source of information to the product teams. By continually monitoring these reviews over time, businesses can recognize changes in customer perceptions and uncover areas of improvement.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The model aims to answer natural language questions about system status and performance based on telemetry data. Google is open-sourcing SynthID, a system for watermarking text so AI-generated documents can be traced to the LLM that generated them. These are small models, designed to work on resource-limited “edge” systems.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. If you’re trying to recalibrate online sales, this TC+ guest post contains formulas for calculating lost lifetime value (LTV) due to churn on a monthly and annual basis. Image Credits: Ysr Dora (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Well, why not?

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Once inside the system, the hacker gained access to files uploaded by Okta customers using valid session tokens from recent support cases.

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Tenable

JULY 14, 2020

Researchers disclose a 17-year old wormable flaw in Windows DNS servers. On July 14, Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in Windows Domain Name System (DNS) Server as part of Patch Tuesday for July 2020. According to the researchers, the vulnerability has persisted in Windows DNS Server for 17 years. Background.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Creating systems that are resilient against ransomware isn’t top of mind for early-stage startups, but many companies don’t even follow basic best practices, much to their detriment. Use code “DC” for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! To better thwart ransomware attacks, startups must get cybersecurity basics right.

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The Crazy Programmer

JULY 8, 2019

This language can fetch the developers a salary much closer to around six-figure due to the dependency of Apple on this language. Just because of its high rated reviews, Coursea and Dropbox have started showing interest in the Rust. It works on the wide range of platforms which includes the Mac OS, iOS, Windows, as well as on UNIX.

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The Parallax

APRIL 2, 2019

VANCOUVER—If coding and updating software is like building and maintaining a house, one might say software that leaks passcodes is like a home with a rotting foundation—but you don’t know it. “ [Memsad] is literally everywhere. If we can’t get it right, what hope is there for mere mortals?”—Ilja

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Latch, an enterprise SaaS company that makes keyless-entry systems, has raised $152 million in private capital, according to Crunchbase. Sunlight Financial, which offers point-of-sale financing for residential solar systems, has raised north of $700 million in venture capital, private equity and debt. Let’s find out.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Full articles are only available to members, but you can use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one or two-year subscription. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). Image Credits: XiXinXing (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Details here.

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The Crazy Programmer

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Do you know all the applications, including MS Office, editing software, browser, and games need a suitable environment to execute their task? The operating system is the software that enables an ideal environment for all these application software to work effectively. What is an Operating System? Image Source.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Image Credits: twomeows (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Startup accelerators’ definition of ‘value add’ is due for a refresh. Image Credits: Dilok Klaisataporn (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Also included in the announcement was news that the Canadian e-commerce giant had found a new owner for 6 River Systems, the warehouse automation firm it purchased in 2019 for nearly a half-billion dollars , reports Brian. It’s not a great system — because it’s largely based on relationships, bias is baked into the recipe.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 22, 2024

CVE-2010-2568: Windows Shell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Remote Code Execution Exploited Zero-Day Local Stuxnet High 2010 Why it’s significant: Regarded as one of the most sophisticated cyberespionage tools ever created, Stuxnet was designed to target SCADA systems in industrial environments to reportedly sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Almost half of all Americans play mobile games, so Alex reviewed Jam City’s investor deck, a transcript of the investor presentation call and a press release to see how it stacks up against Zynga, which “has done great in recent quarters, including posting record revenue and bookings in the first three months of 2021.”

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CIO

JULY 6, 2023

When it’s done right, it can increase company valuation with investors, open windows to subsidies, gain favorable supplier ratings with customers, and make companies attract and retain talent. It enables easy connectivity to any transaction systems and the app can be quickly deployed.

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CIO

AUGUST 19, 2024

Yet as organizations figure out how generative AI fits into their plans, IT leaders would do well to pay close attention to one emerging category: multiagent systems. All aboard the multiagent train It might help to think of multiagent systems as conductors operating a train. Such systems are already highly automated.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Image Credits: z_wei (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: Peter Dazeley (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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The Parallax

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Both companies issued software patches in September. Exploiting the vulnerabilities in Avast and AVG’s antivirus products , which are made by Avast Security following a 2016 acquisition , as well as in Avira ’s Launcher and Software Updater, requires a hacker to have administrator privileges.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Failures in a distributed system are a given, and having the ability to safely retry requests enhances the reliability of the service. Implementing idempotency would likely require using an external system for such keys, which can further degrade performance or cause race conditions.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The enterprise-focused firm he co-founded 17 years ago, Emergence Capital , has backed Saleforce, Box and Zoom, among many other companies, and even while every firm is now investing in software-as-a-service startups, his remains a go-to for many top founders selling business products and services. How has that changed in 2020?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

As of 2020, the clothing sector lost about $27 billion in annual sales due to counterfeits, an illicit trade that results in huge losses to both brands and buyers. Image Credits: MarqVision (opens in a new window) under a license. This is something that other companies in the industry have been unable to accomplish, Lee argues.

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Tenable

MARCH 10, 2020

Critical unpatched “wormable” remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft Server Message Block 3.1.1 Successful exploitation of the vulnerability would grant the attacker arbitrary code execution in both SMB Server and SMB Client. The following versions of Microsoft Windows and Windows Server are affected.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Startups that use machine learning software to automate dispatch for carriers and create more efficient and lucrative routes have seen new waves of funding in recent months as e-commerce continues to pick up globally. “It’s a pretty complicated system to build, which it doesn’t look like from the outside.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

These events aren’t just a chance to review the latest cohort of hopeful entrepreneurs — they also showcase the technology, products and services that will compete for VC and consumer attention over the next few years. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Omnitron Sensors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Or the fact that she rarely had time to spend with her kids after the school day due to workload demands. Over the years, thousands have left the system due to low pay and rigid hours. All these things have caused teachers to seek opportunity outside of the traditional schooling system.”. Or the low pay.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Agentic systems An agent is an AI model or software program capable of autonomous decisions or actions. Gen AI-powered agentic systems are relatively new, however, and it can be difficult for an enterprise to build their own, and it’s even more difficult to ensure safety and security of these systems.

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The Daily WTF

DECEMBER 31, 2024

We all know the story: many legacy systems were storing dates with two digits- 80 not 1980 , and thus were going to fail dramatically when handling 00 - is that 1900 or 2000 ? So I want to discuss the kinds of systems that were impacted and why. It was legacy mainframe systems- the big iron that ran half the world- that was at risk.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 3, 2025

Unlike many open source alternatives, Pixtral 12B achieves strong results in text-based benchmarkssuch as instruction following, coding, and mathematical reasoningwithout sacrificing its proficiency in multimodal tasks. Pixtral is also able to process multiple images in its long context window of 128,000 tokens.

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Targeting continuous delivery without adequate ops Some DevOps teams that develop advanced CI/CD pipelines jump quickly into continuous deployment , pushing code changes into production frequently on fast deployment schedules. CrowdStrike recently made the news about a failed deployment impacting 8.5

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Kaseya

MAY 14, 2020

You diligently back up critical servers to your on-site appliance or to the cloud, but when an incident happens and you need it the most, the backup recovery fails. . Understanding and Avoiding Software Compatibility Issues . There are a wide range of software compatibility issues that can render data unrecoverable.

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