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German University of Digital Science: Campus goes digital

07. August, 2024 - 05:11

The newly founded German University of Digital Science (German UDS) will launch its first MBA and Master’s degree courses on October 1, 2024, for which applications can still be submitted until September 15.

After Google Chrome decision

Mozilla withdraws trust from Entrust for TLS certificates

02. August, 2024 - 08:58

The developer of the Firefox browser, Mozilla, has announced that it will no longer treat the certification service provider Entrust as a trusted root certification authority (CA). This decision follows a similar move by Google Chrome about a month ago.

FBI investigates

KnowBe4 accidentally hired North Korean hacker

29. July, 2024 - 13:01

The US security company KnowBe4 has revealed on its blog that it unknowingly hired a North Korean hacker. Company founder and CEO Stu Sjouwerman describes the incident as a “lesson”.

AI tools

How AI detects the most common forms of expense fraud

26. July, 2024 - 09:08

Around 20 % of all expense reports in companies contain errors. And around 14% of all expense receipts are questionable. For larger organizations, this quickly adds up to significant losses, because as a consequence, around 5% of all reimbursements are actually unjustified.

Biggest-ever leak of digital pirates

10 million users of a Z-Library clone exposed

25. July, 2024 - 13:01

The Cybernews research team discovered an unprotected database containing the data of almost 10 million users. The database belongs to an attacker called Z-lib, which operates a malicious clone of Z-Library.

Generative AI

Dell Technologies continues to expand its GenAI portfolio with AMD

23. July, 2024 - 10:18

Dell Technologies is expanding its generative AI offering together with AMD. The Dell PowerEdge XE9680 server is now available with the AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators. A new validated design and new implementation services are also available.

Anti-Scraping Feature

Cloudflare Aims to Stop AI Data Collectors

04. July, 2024 - 08:21

A conflict is brewing in artificial intelligence (AI): website operators versus AI companies. At the center is the question of who controls online content. The network services provider Cloudflare is now intervening with a new anti-scraping feature.

APT Group Cozy Bear

Cyber attack on TeamViewer

28. June, 2024 - 09:09

The German software provider TeamViewer claims to have been the victim of a cyberattack. On Wednesday, TeamViewer’s security team detected an “anomaly” in the internal IT environment, TecDax announced on its website.

End of the 16-digit card number

Mastercard tokenizes online payments by 2030

12. June, 2024 - 07:34

Mastercard announces that it will introduce the tokenization of credit cards for online payments throughout Europe by 2030. Manually entering the 16-digit card number will then be a thing of the past.