Monthly Archives: December 2024

North Korean Hackers Pull Off $308M Bitcoin Heist from Crypto Firm DMM Bitcoin

Japanese and U.S. authorities have formerly attributed the theft of cryptocurrency worth $308 million from cryptocurrency company DMM Bitcoin in May 2024 to North Korean cyber actors. “The theft is affiliated with TraderTraitor threat activity, which is also tracked as Jade Sleet, UNC4899, and Slow Pisces,” the agencies said. “TraderTraitor activity is often characterized by […]

CISA Adds Acclaim USAHERDS Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a now-patched high-severity security flaw impacting Acclaim Systems USAHERDS to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2021-44207 (CVSS score: 8.1), a case of hard-coded, static credentials in Acclaim USAHERDS that

Apache Tomcat Vulnerability CVE-2024-56337 Exposes Servers to RCE Attacks

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released a security update to address an important vulnerability in its Tomcat server software that could result in remote code execution (RCE) under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-56337, has been described as an incomplete mitigation for CVE-2024-50379 (CVSS score: 9.8), another critical security flaw in the same […]

Achieving AI-powered success: Learnings from Cloud Cultures Season 3 

Cloud technology plays an important role in how organizations around the world are modernizing and innovating. Equally important is the vision that business and technology leaders bring to the process. Shaped by culture, traditions, and values, it’s our lived experience that often forms the foundation for innovation. Technology helps bring the vision to life. In […]

Microsoft Cost Management—2024 year in review 

Introduction  The year 2024 was all about accelerating advancements in AI technologies with improved and much more powerful language models, agent eco-systems and accompanying tools to build them, and of course advancements in the silicon layer. As companies adopt these new technologies, they are also focused on the ROI (Return on investment) and you as […]

Announcing the o1 model in Azure OpenAI Service: Multimodal reasoning with “astounding” analysis

We are pleased to announce that the o1 model is coming soon to Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. This multimodal model brings advanced reasoning capabilities and improvements that will significantly enhance your AI applications and solutions. The o1 model supports both text and vision inputs, making it ideal for a wide range of applications from complex […]

A gamer leaves a legacy within World of Warcraft

When Mats Steen was a little boy, he loved a small ceramic fox. In his native Norway, a fox is a “reven.” His mother, Trude, says he carried everywhere. Back then, he could still walk on his own. He was 7 years old when a wheelchair arrived at his house. His parents anticipated he would […]