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Secure-IC and MosChip Technologies announce their strategic partnership to provide turnkey ASIC solutions, expand Secure-IC's global presence to India and support the company growth in the country. Leveraging its IP portfolio of silicon proven SerDes, PLLs and Data converters, MosChip provides complete turn-key mixed signal and edge device ASIC solutions with flexible engagement models from RTL to volume production.
Palo Alto Networks announced the appointment of Dr. Helene D. Gayle to the company's board of directors and the nominating and corporate governance committee of the board. "We are fortunate to have Dr. Gayle join the Palo Alto Networks' board," said Nikesh Arora, chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks.
The FBI has warned that telephony denial-of-service attacks are taking aim at emergency dispatch centers, which could make it impossible to call for police, fire or ambulance services. "The objective is to keep the distraction calls active for as long as possible to overwhelm the victim's telephone system, which may delay or block legitimate calls for service," according to a recent announcement from the FBI. Worryingly, TDoS attacks have been hitting Public Safety Answering Points, which are call centers responsible for connecting callers to emergency services, such as police, firefighting or ambulance services.
Most organizations don't give the same thought and attention to their non-human workers, such as bots, RPAs and service accounts, as they do human workers and identity lifecycles. Pignolet does not have a problem with non-human workers; his concern is the lack of identity management regarding non-human workers and the increasing number of cyberattacks and data breaches caused by subverting the access privileges given to non-human workers.
Starting next month, Microsoft Word for Windows will include a new predictive typing feature that automatically suggests new words to use as you are typing. The new feature is called 'Text Prediction,' and Microsoft states that it will go live for all Word for Windows users starting March 2021.
New research has found evidence that a Chinese-affiliated threat group has hijacked a hacking tool previously used by the Equation Group. "Although we don't show any conclusive evidence that there is there any connection between China and the ShadowBrokers, we do show conclusive evidence that this Chinese group had in their possession a tool that was made by Equation Group, and not only that they had this tool, but they also repurposed it and used it, probably to attack many targets, including American targets," Yaniv Balmas, head of cyber research with Check Point Software, said.
RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm, and limit the hash rate, or cryptocurrency mining efficiency, by around 50 percent. To address the specific needs of Ethereum mining, we're announcing the NVIDIA CMP product line for professional mining.
Texas electric utility Austin Energy today warned of unknown individuals impersonating the company and threatening customers over the phone that their power will be cut off unless they pay fictitious overdue bills. During these ongoing scam attempts, the scammers warn the customers that their utilities will be disconnected if they don't make immediate payments, "Typically using a reloadable prepaid debit card or other non-traceable form of payment."
At nearly a year old, the invitation-only, audio-based social-media platform ClubHouse is grappling with security issues on multiple fronts, but the consensus among researchers is coming into focus: Assume your ClubHouse conversations are being recorded. Another user, located in mainland China, meanwhile wrote code that allows anyone to listen in on ClubHouse conversations without the required invitation code, and posted it on GitHub, Silicon Angle reported.
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