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Western Alliance Bank admits cyber attack exposed 22,000 customers
An American bank has admitted nearly 22,000 customers had their accounts compromised following an attack that targeted a zero-day flaw in a third-party file-transfer tool. In a regulatory filing, Arizona-based Western Alliance Bank said attackers had access between 12 and 24 October last year, though the bank reportedly only became aware of the attack in January. Hackers accessed customers’ names,…
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Western Alliance Bank notifies 21,899 customers of data breach
Arizona-based Western Alliance Bank is notifying nearly 22,000 customers their personal information was stolen in October after a third-party vendor’s secure file transfer software was breached. Western Alliance is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation, a leading U.S. banking company with over $80 billion in assets. The bank first revealed in a February SEC filing that the attackers…
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Western Alliance Bank notifies 22K people of data breach that compromised SSNs
Western Alliance Bank over the weekend confirmed it notified 21,899 people about an October 2024 data breach that compromised the following info: Names Social Security numbers Dates of birth Financial account numbers Driver’s license numbers Tax ID numbers Passport Ransomware gang Clop claimed responsibility for the breach. This is one of several recent breaches claimed by Clop related to its…
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European AI alliance looks to take on Silicon Valley and develop home-grown LLMs
A new alliance with a budget of €37.4 million is working on a European alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and DeepSeek’s R1. OpenEuroLLM is a consortium of 20 leading European research institutions, companies, and EuroHPC centers hoping to develop a family of high-performance, multilingual, large language foundation models for commercial, industrial, and public service applications. The aim is to create a…
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How the CSA, Thread Group, and Wi-Fi Alliance plan to fix Matter
Matter launched with a mission to provide a reliable, secure way for smart home devices to connect to and communicate with each other across brands and ecosystems. But two years in, problems have plagued the connectivity protocol. Big players like Apple, Amazon, and Google have been slow to offer broad support for Matter device types, there are ongoing reliability and…
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The Browser Choice Alliance Wants to Keep Microsoft Edge in Check
Microsoft’s heavy-handed promotion of its Edge browser within Windows is no secret. Vivaldi, Opera, and a few others are joining forces to fight this preferential treatment of Edge. Vivaldi, Waterfox, Wavebox, Opera, and Chrome have formed an informal alliance called the “Browser Choice Alliance.” It’s trying to raise awareness of Microsoft’s shady practices of gatekeeping third-party browsers. “Unfortunately, Microsoft has…
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Intel, AMD unite in new x86 alliance to tackle AI, other challenges
Semiconductor rivals Intel and AMD announced the formation of an x86-processor advisory group that will try to address ever-increasing AI workloads, custom chiplets, and advances in 3D packaging and system architectures. Members of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group include Broadcom, Dell, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP, Lenovo, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat. Notably missing: TSMC — the world’s largest chipmaker.…
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