Meet Summit, world’s fastest AI-powered supercomputer

By Waqas Scientists at IBM along with researchers at Mellanox, Nvidia and RedHat have unveiled an Artificial This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Meet Summit, world's fastest AI-powered supercomputer...

U.S. Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer – Summit

China no longer owns the fastest supercomputer in the world; It is the United States now. Though China still has more supercomputers on the Top 500 list, the USA takes the crown of "world's fastest supercomputer" from China after IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laborato...

TensorFlow Dataset API for increasing training speed of neural networks

by M.Salnikov, Wallarm Research Wallarm AI engine is the heart of our security solution. Two key parameters of our AI engine efficiency are how fast neural networks can be train to reflect the updated training sets and how much compute power need to be dedicated to the training on the on-going...

Google Tackles AI Principles: Is It Enough?

Google has released its manifesto of principles guiding its efforts in the artificial intelligence realm – though some say the salvo isn’t as complete as it could be. AI is the new golden ring for developers, thanks to its potential to not just automate functions at scale but also to make...

Riccardo Di Blasio joins Wallarm as an advisor

We are excited to welcome Riccardo Di Blasio to Wallarm advisory team. Riccardo is a well known industry executive who brings his experience running go-to-market operations and managing business worldwide for large internationals like EMC Corp and VMware, including RSA Security. Riccardo’s...

The AI’ker’s Guide to the (cybersecurity) Galaxy

As a security veteran I find myself from time to time having to explain to newbies the importance of adopting a ‘hacker’s way of thinking’, and the difference between hacker’s and builder’s thinking. If you can’t think like an attacker, how are you going to build solutions to defend against them?...

Securing the modern workplace with Microsoft 365 threat protection – part 1

This post is authored by Debraj Ghosh, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft 365 Security. The roots of Microsoft 365 threat protection Over the next few weeks, well introduce you to Microsoft 365s threat protection services and demonstrate how Microsoft 365s threat protection leverages...

This Week in Security News: Warnings and WannaCry

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, we're following Ikea's job marketplace, TaskRabbit, which may have suffered a data breach. Also, the U.S and U.K warn against Russian cyber...

Carbon Black’s Predictive Security Cloud (PSC) To Help Power Newly Launched IBM X-Force Threat Management Services

Today is another exciting day for Carbon Black and IBM! This morning we announced Carbon Black has expanded its relationship with IBM Security as the Cb Predictive Security Cloud PSC™ will be part of the newly launched IBM X-Force Threat Management Services to further combat advanced threats acro...

Leveraging the Power of AI to Stop Email Scammers

Staff members are on the frontline when it comes to cyberattacks against their employers. They’re increasingly seen by hackers as a weak link in the cybersecurity chain. That’s why most threats today come via email, aimed squarely at tricking the recipient into downloading malware, divulging...

Akamai 2018 Spring Release, In A Nutshell

Progressing Towards Our Future in The Cloud, Together As organizations continue to fuel and execute on their digital transformation ambitions, they're increasingly finding significant business agility and cost savings by adopting cloud, multi-cloud, or hybrid architectures. Availability, security...

Investing in the right innovation

RSA is around the corner which means tens of thousands of people will descend on Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. Hundreds of innovative young companies will look for customers, props, and capital especially at the Early Stage Expo!. Venture capitalists will look for opportunities to invest a...

DARPA Funding in AI-Assisted Cybersecurity

DARPA is launching a program aimed at vulnerability discovery via human-assisted AI. The new DARPA program is called CHESS Computers and Humans Exploring Software Security, and they're holding a proposers day in a week and a half. This is the kind of thing that can dramatically change the...

Vendor Risk Bites Sears, Delta and Best Buy, while Saks, Lord & Taylor Deal With Breach

Data breaches dominated the cyber security headlines last week, as Sears, Delta, Best Buy, Saks, and Lord & Taylor all found themselves in the news. Sears, Delta and Best Buy: Another vendor risk incident What do retail giant Sears Holdings, consumer electronics chain Best Buy and Delta Air Lines...

Impact Of Chat Service Breach Expands To Best Buy, Kmart

The number of companies coming forward as victims of a data breach – that potentially exposed hundreds of thousands of credit card payment information – has expanded to include Best Buy and Kmart. Last week, software service provider 247.ai, a company that provides online chat services for Delta,...

Artificial Intelligence and the Attack/Defense Balance

Artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to upend the longstanding advantage that attack has over defense on the Internet. This has to do with the relative strengths and weaknesses of people and computers, how those all interplay in Internet security, and where AI technologies migh...

Trojanized BitTorrent Software Update Hijacked 400,000 PCs Last Week

A massive malware outbreak that last week infected nearly half a million computers with cryptocurrency mining malware in just a few hours was caused by a backdoored version of popular BitTorrent client called MediaGet. Dubbed Dofoil also known as Smoke Loader, the malware was found dropping a...

A week in security (March 05 – March 11)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we paid homage to several women in tech, including some of our very own, on International Women's Day and shared their stories. We also looked into an adware posing as an Android app that claims to live stream the 2018 Winter Olympics, exposed scammers that go by t...

A Star Wars Analogy to Defend Against Non-Malware Attacks and the Dark Side

I like watching movies because I can relate almost anything in my real life to the movies I watched. Last week, I did a presentation at "Security Days Tokyo 2018," and I used Star Wars to describe the targeted attacks, non-malware attacks, AI-based, NGAV, etc. The Star Wars analogies were well...

Welcome Our New CMO, Renata Budko

By Ivan Novikov We have ended 2017 with an oomph — having record revenues, on-boarding new marquee Fortune 500 customers and forging new partnerships. We are also growing our team and I would like to welcome Renata Budko joining us as our new Chief Marketing Officer. We’re really excited to have...