HPE supply chain issues drive up server prices

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has reported revenues of $7bn for the third quarter of 2022, an increase of 1% over the same quarter last year. Its Intelligent Edge business reported revenue of $941m, up 8% from the prior year; Aruba Services revenue was up double digits from the prior year; and Intelligent Edge as-a-Service […]

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IAM house Okta confirms 0ktapus/Scatter Swine attack

Identity and access management specialist Okta has warned customers to be on their guard against a widespread and impactful phishing campaign that has already hit a very limited number of its customers. This comes after researchers at Group-IB gathered evidence that tied together multiple recent incidents, including an attack on Twilio, in a criminal […]

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UK government presses on with new cyber rules for telcos

The government has finalised a series of new cyber security rules and a code of practice for communications services providers (CSPs) that will set out specific actions on how they can fulfil their new legal obligations under the Telecommunications (Security) Act, which became law in November 2021. Described by the government as among the […]

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What is an interlaced display and how does it work?

What is an interlaced display? An interlaced display, or interlaced scan video, is when a video only changes every other row of pixels in the image at each screen refresh. The lines are scanned alternately in two interwoven lines. Interlacing is used in broadcast television to reduce the amount of bandwidth needed for each frame […]

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LastPass breach limited in scale and well-managed, say experts

A cyber security breach that unfolded at LastPass – a provider of credential management services – appears to have affected only the firm’s developer environment, and is unlikely to rebound on users, according to community experts, who have praised the firm for its quick and transparent response to the incident. The breach was notified […]

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NetApp storage goes GA for VMware Cloud on AWS

NetApp has announced the general availability of its Ontap storage for VMware Cloud on AWS. According to NetApp, that will help customers make savings of 20-50% in TCO by being able to scale cloud storage independently of compute. The offering is Amazon FSx for NetApp Ontap (FSxN) certified and supported as a supplemental datastore […]

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Geopolitics impacts your IT strategy

Gartner has predicted that by 2026, 70% of multinational enterprises will adjust the countries in which they operate by hedging to reduce their geopolitical exposure. According to Gartner, chief information officers (CIOs) have a pivotal role to play in assessing corporate risk and, if required, rearchitecting digital systems. The analyst warned that CIOs can […]

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Criminal 0ktapus spoofed IAM firm in massive phishing attack

A large-scale phishing campaign, dubbed 0ktapus, that reeled in unsuspecting users at Cloudflare and Twilio, among others, and led to a small downstream attack against secure messaging service Signal, has been revealed to have compromised nearly 10,000 user accounts at more than 130 organisations worldwide by exploiting the brand of identity and access management […]

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Adaptive RedAlert, Monster ransomwares go cross-platform

The developers of two newly emergent ransomware families, RedAlert and Monster, are using novel techniques to spread their attacks as widely as possible by exploiting multiple different operating systems (OSes) at the same time, according to research shared by cyber giant Kaspersky. The use of multi-platform ransomwares is nothing new as such. Indeed, Kaspersky […]

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