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The silicon security parts of Secured-Core PCs are only part of Intel's ongoing hardware security program. As hackers continue to evolve their techniques, moving increasingly towards the hardware infrastructure, Intel argues that organizations of all sizes must invest in better technology - from endpoint to network edge to cloud.
President Joe Biden used his first visit with rank-and-file members of the U.S. intelligence community - a part of government that was frequently criticized by his predecessor Donald Trump - to make a promise that he will "Never politicize" their work. Biden waited more than six months to make the short drive across the Potomac River on Tuesday to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, giving analysts and national security leaders - often derided by Trump as the "Deep state" - some breathing room.
Intel and Airtel announced a collaboration to drive network development of 4G and 5G virtualized radio access network and open radio access network technology to transform Airtel's networks to reap the full possibilities of 5G for its customers. "Being able to digitally power the vibrant population of India's connected users requires scalable and agile networks that can evolve to address the growing demands of its users. Airtel is delivering their next-generation enhanced network with a breadth of Intel technology, including Intel Xeon Scalable processors and FlexRAN software to optimize RAN workloads with embedded intelligence, to scale their infrastructure and deliver on the promise of a connected India," said Dan Rodriguez, Intel corporate vice president, Network Platforms Group.
Enterprise security teams need to move from the consumption of crowdsourced threat intelligence to an additional mode of contribution. We are a community with grand ideas around the concept of crowdsourced threat intelligence, but with little history or previous successes that show CTI as a viable idea.
Intel 471 announced the appointment of Ms. Yang Cao as the company's senior regional director, Asia-Pacific. "We've seen tremendous traction in APAC, especially over the last year. To help better serve this growing market, we are allocating more in-country staff to provide greater support for our customers and partners there and will continue to invest in the region," said CEO Mark Arena at Intel 471.
The threat actor is Charming Kitten - aka a number of names, including TA453, APT35, Ajax Security Team, NewsBeef, Newscaster and Phosphorus. Operation SpoofedScholars shows TTPs that are also similar to previous TA453 campaigns and "Consistency with TA453's historical targeting," the analysts wrote, including using free email providers to spoof individuals familiar to their targets.
The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack put a glaring spotlight on the ransomware scourge - and, in particular, on the rise of ransomware-as-a-service. The CryptoLocker ransomware attack was propagated by infected email attachments and via the Gameover Zeus botnet.
A year later, in 2014, Intel was forced to turn TSX off in Haswell and selected Broadwell chips after an erratum was disclosed allowing for "Unpredictable system behaviour" - exactly the opposite of what you want in your database-centric server system. It would now appear that Intel plans to throw in the towel, as brought to our attention in a scan of the latest changes to the Linux kernel by Phoronix: Intel has released a microcode update which disables TSX on processors ranging from the Broadwell successor Skylake through to Coffee Lake parts released starting in 2017.
Microsoft announced today that they might lower the Windows 11 system requirements to allow Intel 7th generation and AMD Zen 1 CPUs to use the new operating system. Even if your hardware had no problems running Windows 10, Microsoft decided only to allow Intel 8th generation, AMD Zen 2, and Qualcomm 7 and 8 Series processors to be compatible with Windows 11.
The Recorded Future co-founder and CEO this week unveiled The Intelligence Fund, an in-house initiative that sets aside $20 million to invest in seed-stage and Series A startups in the nascent threat-intelligence space. Flush with cash from its own $780 million sale to private equity firm Insight Partners, Ahlberg says Recorded Future wants to make early bets on entrepreneurs taking new approaches to collecting and parsing data to feed into security intelligence tools.