What is mouse? | Definition from TechTarget

By What is a mouse? A mouse is a small device that a computer user pushes across a desk surface in order to point to a place on a display screen and to select one or more actions to take from that position. The mouse first became a widely used computer tool when Apple Computer […]

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Ransomware gang exploiting unpatched Veeam backup products

Researchers at WithSecure have issued an alert after uncovering evidence that a notorious cyber criminal gang is exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication data backup and recovery software to access its victims’ networks. Tracked as CVE-2023-27532, the Veeam vulnerability was first published on 7 March 2023. It enables an unauthenticated […]

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UK government introduces Digital Markets Bill to Parliament

The UK government has published a draft of its Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (DMCCB), which aims to establish a new regulator to challenge the growing dominance of big tech firms. The Bill will place the Digital Markets Unit (DMU) – a new division of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) which was […]

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Google researchers identify hole in Intel TDX

Google’s Project Zero and cloud security teams’ nine-month assessment of the security of the Intel Trust Domain Extension (TDX) has identified a number of areas it needs to improve, but overall, the company gave the new technology, which will be included in the fourth generation of Intel’s Xeon Scalable processor, the thumbs-up. The TDX […]

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UK taskforce set to drive generative AI safety and opportunities

To tie in with the government’s new Business Connect UK innovation and growth conference, prime minister Rishi Sunak has announced £100m of funding to support generative artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives. The government plans to use the funding to kickstart the delivery of the UK’s capability in safe and reliable foundation models. This builds on […]

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Online makes up 25% of retail sales three months in row

Online retail sales have accounted for a quarter of total retail sales three months in a row so far in 2023, according to numbers from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). While online retail sales in March were 0.4% higher than the previous month, January, February and March of 2023 have seen ecommerce consistently make up […]

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Veritas shows off software SAN for Kubernetes at KubeCON 2023

It was one of the big surprises of the recent KubeCON show in Amsterdam – dedicated to all things Kubernetes – when customers that asked about NetBackup’s container backup capabilities were told they should deploy Veritas’s InfoScale software-defined storage for Kubernetes instead. Directly competing with Pure Storage’s Portworx, InfoScale offers block storage for applications […]

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CISOs under-supported, under pressure, Trellix finds

Chief information security officers (CISOs) are still failing to get the support they want and need from their boardrooms, with 96% struggling to get leadership to sign-off on resources to appropriately safeguard their organisations, while coming under significant pressure from the exact same people when something goes wrong, according to Trellix’s Mind of the […]

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