Day: October 4, 2018

DDN steps out of HPC niche and into enterprise AI systems hurly-burly

Squares up to Pure, NetApp, Cisco and Dell EMC HPC supplier DDN has joined the small but growing crowd of firms swimming out into the enterprise AI mainstream, twinning its storage with Nvidia’s DGX-1 GPU server to build its own machine learning beast.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Malicious Component Found on Server Motherboards Supplied to Numerous Companies

This morning Bloomberg is reporting a bombshell for hardware security. Companies like Amazon and Apple have found a malicious chip on their server motherboards. These are not counterfeit chips. They are not part of the motherboard design. These were added by the factory at the time of manufacture. The chip was placed among other signal…


For $14.71, You Can Buy A Passport Scan on the Dark Web

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The Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus is a steal at $380 – CNET

This big phone hit the market at $850. Good on you for waiting! Plus: a $40 PC game for free! …read more Source:: CNet


Malware scam targets Fortnite cheaters and their bitcoin wallets – CNET

Cheaters never prosper. …read more Source:: CNet


LG V40 ThinQ vs. Galaxy Note 9 vs. iPhone XS Max – CNET

Big phones, big competition. …read more Source:: CNet


Campaign 2018: Cyberattacks on infrastructure could suppress voter turnout – CNET

The electrical grid, telecommunications and municipal systems are vulnerable to hackers. …read more Source:: CNet


Amazon Offloaded Its Chinese Server Business Because it Was Compromised, Report Says

An anonymous reader shares a report: It looks like Amazon’s move to sell off its physical server business in China last year was because the unit had been compromised by a Chinese government spying program. That’s according to a report from Bloomberg which details how the Chinese government infiltrated a number of U.S. companies by…


Day two and Windows 10 October 2018 Update trips over Intel audio

Driver snafu thrashes CPUs and guzzles batteries Barely a day into release and Microsoft has admitted there is a problem with its shiny new OS and chips from Intel.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Russian cyber spies busted by Netherlands ‘left behind evidence of many operations’

Equipment seized by Dutch intelligence points to Russia’s involvement in hacking incidents around the world. …read more Source:: ZDNet