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The convergence of HPC and AI: Driving innovation at speed  

IBM Big Data Hub

Many industries rely on high-performance computing (HPC) to achieve this goal. For example, HPC offers high levels of computational power and scalability, crucial for running performance-intensive workloads. In the era of gen AI and hybrid cloud, IBM Cloud® HPC brings the computing power organizations need to thrive.

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Global Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2024 – 5,336,840,757 Records Breached

IT Governance

The number of records breached this month was high – particularly compared to March – largely due to two outlier events: Spy.pet, a data scraping website, offering 4,186,879,104 Discord messages for sale. 1 Example: Le Slip Français – initially logged as unknown, although we knew that the threat actor claimed to have more than 1.5

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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How Cybercriminals are Weathering COVID-19

Krebs on Security

For example, reshipping scams have over the years become easier for both reshipping mule operators and the mules themselves. After all, dumps are mainly used to buy high-priced items from electronics stores and other outlets that may not even be open now thanks to the widespread closures from the pandemic.

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. Ten years ago, then 19-year-old hacker Ngo was a regular on the Vietnamese-language computer hacking forums. Secret Service. Hieu Minh Ngo, in his teens. BEGINNINGS.

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Digital transformation examples

IBM Big Data Hub

A recent analysis from the IBM Institute for Business Value asked company executives “[…] how they use data to create performance baselines and to understand how applying technologies—for example, cloud, AI, generative AI—might materially improve performance in the parts of the business that generate income.”

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Beware Black Friday & Cyber Monday shoppers: fake products, credit cards scams and other types of fraud

Security Affairs

Group-IB security experts are warning about the increasing scammers’ activity during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales. Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, warns about the increasing scammers’ activity during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales. Long Beach press conference.