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A few folks have reported a new ransomware technique that preys upon corporate inability to keep passwords safe. The notes & which are usually aimed at instilling fear & are simple: the hacker says &I know that your password is X. Give me a bitcoin and I won&t blackmail you.&
Programmer Can Duruk reported getting the email today.
The email reads:
I&m aware that X is your password.
You don&t know me and you&re thinking why you received this e mail, right
Well, I actually placed a malware on the porn website and guess what, you visited this web site to have fun (you know what I mean). While you were watching the video, your web browser acted as a RDP (Remote Desktop) and a keylogger which provided me access to your display screen and webcam. Right after that, my software gathered all your contacts from your Messenger, Facebook account, and email account.
What exactly did I do
I made a split-screen video. First part recorded the video you were viewing (you&ve got a fine taste haha), and next part recorded your webcam (Yep! Ityou doing nasty things!).
What should you do
Well, I believe, $1400 is a fair price for our little secret. You&ll make the payment via Bitcoin to the below address (if you don&t know this, search &how to buy bitcoin& in Google) .
BTC Address: 1Dvd7Wb72JBTbAcfTrxSJCZZuf4tsT8V72 (It is cAsE sensitive, so copy and paste it)
Important:
You have 24 hours in order to make the payment. (I have an unique pixel within this email message, and right now I know that you have read this email). If I don&t get the payment, I will send your video to all of your contacts including relatives, coworkers, and so forth. Nonetheless, if I do get paid, I will erase the video immidiately. If you want evidence, reply with &Yes!& and I will send your video recording to your 5 friends. This is a non-negotiable offer, so don&t waste my time and yours by replying to this email.
To be clear there is very little possibility that anyone has video of you cranking it unless, of course, you video yourself cranking it. Further, this is almost always a scam. That said, the fact that the hackers are able to supply your real passwords & most probably gleaned from the multiple corporate break-ins that have happened over the past few years & is a clever change to the traditional cyber-blackmail methodology.
Luckily, the hackers don&t have current passwords.
&However, all three recipients said the password was close to ten years old, and that none of the passwords cited in the sextortion email they received had been used anytime on their current computers,& wrote researcher Brian Krebs. In short, the password files the hackers have are very old and outdated.
To keep yourself safe, however, cover your webcam when not in use and change your passwords regularly. While difficult, there is nothing else that can keep you safer than you already are if you use two-factor authentication and secure logins.
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Write comment (90 Comments)In the wake of Broadcom failing to complete its takeover of Qualcomm, Intel is buying another chip company as it works on adjusting its own its business to fit the next generation of computing. Today, the company is announcing that it is acquiring eASIC, a fabless semiconductor company that makes customisable eASIC chips for use in wireless and cloud environments.
Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed, as the price paid will not be material to Intel. eASIC has 120 employees, was founded in 1999 and has counted Khosla, Kleiner Perkins and Seagate among its investors, raising $149 million in total. It had been recapitalised in 2012 and so, in its last round, in November 2017, it was valued at around $110 million post-money, according to PitchBook, to give you a basic idea of a possible pricing ballpark.
eASICtechnology and team will become a part of IntelProgrammable Solutions Group (PSG), which Intel created after it acquired Altera in 2015 for $16.7 billion. Altera is a producer of FPGA chips, and the idea will be to complement those with eASICtechnology, said Dan McNamara,corporate vice president and GM of the PSG division:
&We&re seeing the largest adoption of FPGA ever because of explosion of data and cloud services, and we think this will give us a lot of differentiation versus the likes of Xilinx,& which is one of Intelbiggest competitors in FPGA. &We&ll be able to offer an end-to-end lifecycle that fits todaychanging workloads and infrastructure. No one on the marketplace will have this.& FPGA designs allow companies to quickly modify chip architectures, but they also require a lot of power. eASIC chips are more efficient, and they can be configured quickly from the outset (but cannot be modified).
The idea will be to offer eASIC as a transition to customers of Intel(and its competitors) who are already using FPGA and looking for a migration to the next thing. Applications that might need eASIC power could range frombaseband and radio heads in 4G and 5G networks as well as applications based in the cloud that require heavy data computations, for example AI and video services, or financial risk analysis.
Intel and eASIC have actually been working together since 2015, when the latter company started to provide its flavor of ASIC designs to Intel for its Xeon chips. McNamara confirmed that Intel never invested in eASIC but it had considered the idea &multiple& times, including recently, instead of acquiring.
However, ultimately, owning the company outright made more sense for both sides, he said.
&Strategic partnerships are good but a combination much better,& he said, &because it brings the investment capability to the next node. When you are privately held and venture-backed you can be challenged by the investment needed for the next phase of innovation.& He also noted the &key talent& and IP — including multiple patents — that Intel will be getting in the deal.
eASIC itself has felt the pinch of being a smaller chip company: it tried to file to go public in 2015to raise $75 million but cancelled its IPO at a time when the public markets were freezing up for listings of startups. Its move to Intel is part of whatbeen a long-term consolidation in the chip industry, which gets more value out of economies of scale and selling end-to-end services to larger customers.
&The eASIC team has developed and deployed a truly innovative structured ASIC product. The marriage of the eASIC technology with IP and capabilities ofIntelwill allow the ubiquitous deployment of this proven structured ASIC product into a wide breadth of exciting end applications and markets. This is the perfect time to usher in this new chapter for eASIC,& said Ronnie Vasishta, president and CEO of eASIC, in a statement.
While many in the technology and communications industries believe that areas like the Internet of Things and 5G — and the infrastructure, hardware and related services powering them — will be huge businesses, today they remain relatively small. In Intelmost recent quarterly earnings reported in April, PSG had revenues of$498 million — up 17 percent on a year ago but still the smallest division within the companydata-centric business units. As a point of comparison, IntelPC-centric Client Computing Division made $8.2 billion. But CCG only grew three percent over a year ago, and that stagnation and slowdown in Intelbusiness is one reason why it needs to buy companies like eASIC and focus on future technologies.
eASICcustomers include a number of vendors that work in the communications industry, including Huawei, NEC, Violin Memory, Seagate, Microsoft, Flir Systems and Arm. After it added a longtime Apple vet to its board several years ago, it was speculated that Apple might also have a tie to the company, although that has never been confirmed.
The deal comes at a key time for Intel, which in addition to its over-reliance on revenues from its legacy business, has been facing delays on the production of 10nm chips, and then unexpectedly lost its CEO Brian Krzanich in June when he resigned over inappropriate behavior. But Robert Swan is in the role now on an interim basis, and McNamara says the company is going full-steam ahead on its previous strategy.
&The executive team is fully focused on the execution of our strategy and this is a good example of it,& he said.
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Write comment (91 Comments)Considering that its debut on the TechCrunch Disrupt phase in September 2016, need for a service likeproductboard, which gives business a holistic view of item development and motivates input from across an organization, has actually only gotten more acute, according to company president Hubert Palan. Now, with an $8 million dedication from Kleiner Perkins Caufield - Byers, with participation from Index Ventures, Credo Ventures, Reflex Capital and Rockaway Capital, alongside a host of angel financiers, the company is looking to expand its sales and marketing and item advancement efforts to bring the benefits of its toolkit to more companies. In the 2 years given that TechCrunch last saw productboard, the companyuser base has actually grown considerably, from 100 customers in 2016 to more than 1,200 companies today, covering a broad series of markets. For Palan, the companygrowing user base (which now includes medical device companies, academic publishers and wire service in addition to conventional digital product designers) is evidence of a brand-new need in the market for more inputs around item design and advancement. & Every business is now a digital business, & Palan stated. & So every company needs to fret about digital product design. &. The companytoolkit still consists of features that enable it to hoover up info from client assistance tickets, emails, input from sales groups and user research study, to organize and prioritize features that need to be built. Now, the companyservices enable anyone in an organization (with the proper gain access to) to offer feedback and track the process of product advancement. & Product Excellence is no longer optional, & stated Palan in a statement. & These days rivals occur in a matter of months, not years. Consumer loyalty is declining and users will happily switch to a contending solution that offers a better product experience. Itmore important than ever to get the right items to market much faster. &. As part of the funding, Kleiner Perkins & brand-new general partner, Ilya Fushman, will sign up with the companyboard of directors. Fushman, who was important in locking down productboard seed funding when he was at Index Ventures, has a long item history from his time at Dropbox, and is a welcome addition to the companyboard, Palan stated. While Fushmanimprimatur is one sign of the companyviability, the investment from tactical angel financiers like Intercom co-foundersEoghan McCabe and Des Traynor; Clark Valberg, the co-founder of InVision; and Larry Gadea, the founder of Envoy, is still another. & Product management is a core function in every innovation company, however couple of devoted tools exist for it, & said Fushman, in a declaration.
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Microsoft is launching a few new networking features today that will make it easier for businesses to use the companyAzure cloud to securely connect their own offices and infrastructure using Azure and its global network.
The first of these is the Azure Virtual WAN service, which allows businesses to connect their various branches to and through Azure. This basically works like an airline hub and spoke model, where Azure becomes the central hub through which all data between branches flows. The advantage of this, Microsoft argues, is that it allows admins to manage their wide-area networks from a central dashboard and, of course, that it makes it easy to bind additional Azure services and appliances to the network. And with that, users also get access to all of the security services that Azure has to offer.
One new security service that Microsoft is launching today is the Azure Firewall, a new cloud-native security service that is meant to protect a businessvirtual network resources.
In addition to these two new networking features, Microsoft also today announced that it is expandingto two new regions its Azure Data Box service, which is basically Microsoftversion of the AWS Snowball appliances for moving data into the cloud by loading it onto a shippable appliance: Europe and the United Kingdom (and letnot argue about the fact that the U.K. is still part of Europe). There is also now a &Data Box Disk& option for those who don&t need to move petabytes of data. Orders with up to five of those disks can hold up to 40 terabytes of data and are currently in preview.
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Write comment (91 Comments)Microsoft announced a variety of new tools for its MyAnalytics tool for Office 365 users today that are tailored towards giving workers more information about how they work, as well as methods to improve how teams work together. In todaybusinesses, everybody needs to be a team player, after all, and if you wish to bring innovation to bear upon this, you first need data —-- and as soon as you have information, you can enter into full-on analytics mode and perhaps even include a smidge of machine learning, too. Today, Microsoft is launching two brand-new items: Workplace Analytics and MyAnalytics pushes. Yes, Office 365 will now push you to be a better group gamer. & Building much better groups starts with transparent, data-driven dialog—-- but nobody is perfect and sticking to excellent collaboration habits can be challenging in a fast-paced job, & MicrosoftNatalie McCullough and Noelle Beaujon, using language only an MBA could love, write in todayannouncement. I & m uncertain what exactly that implies or whether I have great collaboration practices or not, but in practice, Office 365 can now push you when you need more focus time as your calendar fills, for example. You can obstruct off those times without leaving your Inbox (or, I guess, you might constantly ignore this and just set up a standing block of time every day where you wear & t accept conferences and simply do your job & hellip;-RRB-. MyAnalytics can likewise now push you to hand over meetings to a co-worker when your schedule is busy (because your colleagues aren & t busy and will enjoy you for putting more meetings on your calendar) and tell you to avoid after-hours emails as you prepare them to colleagues so they don & t need to work after hours, too (thatactually wise, however may not work well in every company). With this brand-new feature, Microsoft is also using some maker finding out smarts, naturally. MyAnalytics was currently able to remind you of jobs you promised to co-workers over email, and now it & ll push you when you check out new emails from those colleagues, too. Because the more you get pushed, the most likely you are to complete that irritating task you never intended to do however assured your co-worker you would do so he & d go away. If you & re whole team needs some nudging, Microsoft will likewise allow the group to register in a modification program and provide you with lots of data about how you are changing. And if that doesn & t work, you can constantly set up a couple of conferences to talk about whatgoing wrong. These brand-new features will present this summertime. Prepare to be nudged.
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Write comment (94 Comments)Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, the companycloud-based database service for big data workloads, is getting yet another speed bump today. A few months ago, the company sped up the service with the general availability of its second-generation compute-optimized tier and today itdoubling its query performance thanks to the launch of its new instant data movement technology.
Raghu Ramakrishnan, MicrosoftCTO for Azure Data, tells me that instant data movement is the result of the companydecades-long investments in database technology. &Given the fact that we&ve been doing data management for decades now, we can marry data storage and management,& he noted and stressed that I/O bandwidth tends to be a major bottleneck for many of the analytics workloads that Microsoftcustomers use SQL Data Warehouse for. In a distributed system like a data warehouse, moving data becomes a problem — one that is typically managed by yet another layer in the system. &In these systems, when you take simple standard operations like joins, if the tables are not already nicely organized by an attribute, you have to sort on one or the other, so you have to move data across the network at a rapid clip, Ramakrishnan said.
To do away with this bottleneck, Microsoft has now integrated the data movement layer right into the SQL Server engine that powers its data warehousing service. Thanks to this, every SQL Server node can now create intermediary results and move the data as necessary.
Never shy to compare its services to its competitors, Microsoft also notes that Azure SQL Data Warehouse can support up to 128 concurrent queries now, compared to the 50 that Amazon Redshift is currently limited to.
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