Hint: He doesn’t care if you personally think it’s rubbish, and here’s why A Russian spymaster has denied that his agency carried out the infamous SolarWinds supply chain attack in a public relations move worthy of the Internet Research Agency.… …read more Source:: Register

Microsoft officials have admitted what leaked a week-plus ago: Its Chrome-OS competitor, Windows 10X, isn’t coming. Instead, some of the 10X technologies will be integrated into other Windows versions. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Splunk said it will integrate TruStar’s data-sharing capabilities into its Data-to-Everything platform following the acquisition. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Chinese telecom giant Huawei is finding plenty of government buyers for its cloud services despite growing suspicion of the company, according to new data compiled by the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Reconnecting Asia Project. From a report: Middle-income countries without strong civil freedoms are the most common customers for Huawei’s cloud and e-government…

Who’s recommending investment? The man who already has a $1bn stake Wikipedia says MicroStrategy is a company that provides business intelligence (BI), mobile software, and cloud-based services, but that wouldn’t be the first outdated information on the crowdsourced knowledge repository.… …read more Source:: Register

If you ride a motorcycle, you may have noticed that the cost of airbag vests has dropped. In one case, something very different is going on here. As reported by Motherboard, you can pick up a KLIM Ai-1 for $400 but the airbag built into it will not function until unlocked with an additional purchase,…

Not only is relying on employees’ awareness insufficient to prevent sophisticated social engineering attacks, some training methods can create other problems. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Nvidia is extending its cryptocurrency mining limits to newly manufactured GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070, and RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards. From a report: After nerfing the hash rates of the RTX 3060 for its launch in February, Nvidia is now starting to label new cards with a “Lite Hash Rate” or “LHR” identifier to…

Cryptographers at RSA Conference panel aren’t worried about adversarial quantum cryptography. Machine learning, though, causes pressing practical issues. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Anurag Kahol, CTO at Bitglass, discusses options for detecting malicious or dangerous activity from within an organization. …read more Source:: Threatpost