While Microsoft recently announced its decision to shift away from NVIDIA GPUs in favor of its custom chips, Google has taken the opposite approach, collaborating with NVIDIA to optimize its new lightweight language model, Gemma, on NVIDIA GPUs. Gemma is a lightweight language model developed by Google. Unlike traditional large language models (LLMs) that require […]
Monthly Archives: February 2024
The U.S. State Department has announced monetary rewards of up to $15 million for information that could lead to the identification of key leaders within the LockBit ransomware group and the arrest of any individual participating in the operation. “Since January 2020, LockBit actors have executed over 2,000 attacks against victims in the United States, […]
Five vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Joomla content management system that could be leveraged to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable websites. […]
Microsoft has expanded free Purview Audit logging capabilities for all U.S. federal agencies six months after disclosing that Chinese hackers stole U.S. government emails undetected in an Exchange Online breach between May and June 2023. […]
Security researchers are warning of hackers abusing the Google Cloud Run service to distribute massive volumes of banking trojans like Astaroth, Mekotio, and Ousaban. […]
A new report commissioned by OpenText, released yesterday, indicates that IT departments are playing a major role in achieving corporate sustainability objectives, but concludes a lack of innovative tools and expertise are primary roadblocks to allowing them to meet their goals. The 2023 State of IT Sustainability Report, conducted by Dimensional Research, found that while […]
Two Chinese nationals face 20 years in prison after being caught and convicted of submitting over 5,000 fake iPhones worth more than $3 million to Apple with the goal of having them replaced with genuine devices. […]
Over 50 per cent of Canadian technology managers plan to hire in the first half of 2024 despite persisting challenges to find skilled talent, a new study by hiring platform Robert Half reveals. Respondents included executives, senior managers and workers from small (20-249 employees), medium (250-499 employees) and large (500+ employees) businesses in private, publicly […]
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For years, cybersecurity experts have been warning organizations of the importance of identity and access management processes — including password management and protection against compromise of multifactor authentication — to secure IT assets. A new report from IBM, released Wednesday, suggests failure to do that is increasingly costing firms badly. Abusing valid accounts was in […]
Opposition MPs hammered the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) on Tuesday for its role in not tightly overseeing the $59 million spent on the ArriveCAN app, but failed to get answers to repeated demands asking who made decisions. The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and the Canada Border Services Agency […]