Nobelium, the group behind the SolarWinds attack, still has a large arsenal of advanced hacking capabilities at its disposal. This is the conclusion of Mandiant’s security specialists in a recent study. The danger of these -probably state-backed- hackers has not yet passed. A year ago, the Nobelium hackers managed to hack into the American security […]

Microsoft announces that its Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) has seized the websites of hacking group NICKEL. According to the organization, the hacking group loses an important weapon. The websites would be used to attack global organizations. NICKEL trades from China. The hacking group has been followed by Microsoft’s security branch since 2016. Now the tech

The European Commission (EC) is investigating the proposed acquisition of software developer Nuance Communications. Reuters says it has reviewed a questionnaire distributed by the EC to Microsoft’s competitors and Nuance customers to identify objections to the acquisition. According to Reuters, the European Commission distributed the questionnaire as part of an antitrust investigation. Microsoft’s acquisition of

ViewSonic has unveiled a 32-inch OLED monitor with a resolution of 3840×2160 pixels, which is due to be released later this year. In addition, the company has announced two new projectors, which are scheduled to be released in April 2022. ViewSonic promises Adobe and Pantone validation for the ColorPro VP32 and says that the monitor

Nvidia has bad news for anyone hoping that the GPU chip shortage will soon be a thing of the past: the delivery problems will apparently continue into the coming year. The latest from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang comes from an interview with Yahoo Finance, where he noted, “I think demand will be much greater than

Microsoft has introduced a new DirectX12 API. The API enables video specialists to process complex video processes more easily. This includes Video Decoding or Video Processing ad Motion. The API, which is supported by the computing power of CPUs, provides a number of interfaces that allow customization of various parts of the encoding process. Functionality

Garmin has announced two new smartwatches with the vívomove Sport and the Venu 2 Plus. The vívomove Sport is a relatively inexpensive ‘hybrid’ smartwatch, with an analog movement and a small screen. The Venu 2 Plus again has a speaker and a microphone. The vívomove Sport is an analog watch with hour and minute hands

AMD may release a Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor with 3D V-Cache this spring. This is evident from a leaked slide published by VideoCardz. Zen 4 CPUs will follow in the second half of 2022. The company would also announce new laptop CPUs and GPUs. Tech website VideoCardz publishes a slide that seems to confirm the

Pegasystems launches Next-Best-Action Customer Journeys. The solution measures every event in the customer journey, provides insight into the effectiveness of touchpoints and leverages AI to optimize customer acquisition and retention. Next-Best-Action Customer Journeys includes automation to measure the effectiveness of each step in a customer journey. For example, that journey starts from the moment a

Google has made Cloud IDS generally available. With the solution, companies can better protect themselves against malware, spyware, command and control attacks and other network threats. With general availability, Google wants to offer its customers an alternative to solutions from other vendors. According to Google, these alternatives are often very complex to manage, difficult to