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Zacks Investment breach could leave 12 million customer accounts exposed
Zacks Investment, a leading investment research company, has allegedly suffered a data breach that could see roughly 15 million customer records exposed. A threat actor under the name Jurak posted on the dark web hacking forum BreachForums on 24 January 2025, claiming to have breached Zacks Investment in June last year. Zacks is a major financial analysis provider best known…
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Hacker leaks account data of 12 million Zacks Investment users
Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) last year reportedly suffered another data breach that exposed sensitive information related to roughly 12 million accounts. Zacks is an American investment research company that provides its customers data-driven insights through a proprietary stock performance assessment tool called ‘Zacks Rank’, to help with making informed financial decisions. In late January, a threat actor published data samples…
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Surging CNAPP investment is a big opportunity for the channel
UK cybersecurity leaders are planning to invest in cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) in 2025 as part of plans to increase security spending, new research from Westcon-Comstor shows. The technology provider and distributor quizzed 500 chief information security officers (CISOs) and senior security personnel at end-user organizations with 1,000 or more employees across the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and the…
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Agentic AI investment is putting the cart before the horse
Flying frequently for work, I’ve been afforded many a dull moment to myself looking out the window at the stationary tarmac and listening to the captain tell us “we should be on the move shortly”. It’s in these moments that I’m reminded of an interesting comparison, one between technology’s long-established role in commercial flight and AI’s burgeoning role in the…
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Public sector improvements, infrastructure investment, and AI pothole repairs: Tech industry welcomes UK’s “ambitious” AI action plan
The UK government has officially unveiled its AI Opportunity Action Plan, promising a greater focus on the opportunities of the burgeoning technology rather than the risks. Under the new industry focus, the Labour government plans to implement all 50 recommendations set out by Matt Clifford in his AI Opportunities Action Plan, commissioned by technology secretary Peter Kyle last year. Announcing…
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AWS eyes ‘flexible’ data center expansion with $11bn Georgia investment
AWS has announced its latest round of infrastructure investment focused in the US, pledging $11 billion for data centers in the state of Georgia. The news follows a similar announcement of $10bn in funding for data centers in Ohio at the end of last year, and comes days after Microsoft said it will spend half of an $80bn tranche of…
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Want a return on your AI investment? Open source could be the key to success
Almost half of companies have seen a return on investment (ROI) on their AI strategy, according to new research, and those using open source tools are more likely to see a positive result. In a recent survey from IBM and Morning Consult, the vast majority (89%) said their organization plans to increase or maintain their AI investments in 2025, a…
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2024 was the year where AI finally started returning on investment
It’s been a whirlwind two years in the generative AI race. Since ChatGPT launched in November 2022, we’ve gone from concerns over sentient world-killing AI supervillains to tempered expectations on what enterprises can actually gain from the technology. While there’s obviously great potential in generative AI from a business perspective – be it cost savings, improvements to operational efficiency, and…
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AWS expands Ohio investment by $10 billion in major AI, cloud push
AWS has announced plans to invest an additional $10 billion in Ohio in a bid to expand data center infrastructure and help power the rise of AI. The investment builds on previous announcements of funding in the state worth $7.8 billion last year, in addition to $6 billion in 2022, AWS said in a statement. By 2030, AWS said its…
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GPU cloud startup Vultr secures AMD backing in $333 million investment round
Cloud infrastructure company Vultr has raised $333 million in funding as part of an investment round that values the firm at $3.5 billion. Founded in 2014 by David Aninowsky and self-funded until now, Vultr operates a global, full-stack AI infrastructure and cloud computing platform with 32 cloud data center regions around the world. Led by LuminArx Capital Management and AMD…
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