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Volume 329, Issue 3: Articles Posted Week: Aug 18th, 2025 — Aug 24th, 2025
IT News You Can Use - Full Weekly Issue - Vol 329 Issue 3
Security
AI
Fueled By AI, Enterprise Software Market Grew To $341.4 Billion In 2024 And Is About To Soar
Agentic AI Promises A Cybersecurity Revolution - With Asterisks
Email
NVIDIA News
Oracle News
Rapid7 News
From Perimeter to Core: Vector Command Advanced Expands Red Team Coverage
What the First 24 Hours of a Cyberattack Can Teach You About MDR
SentinelOne News
Join us for an insightful discussion on how EDB Postgres AI can both modernize your Oracle workloads by moving to Postgres, and accelerate deployment of GenAI models on day 1. In this webinar, Matthew Lewandowski, EDB's Senior Product Manager of Migration, and Neel Chopra, Product Marketing Manager for Databases, will discuss the challenges of staying on Oracle, the complexities of GenAI development, and how EDB Postgres AI solves for both. Register
Security
The Cybersecurity Myths Companies Can't Seem To Shake
Cybersecurity myths are like digital weeds: pull one out, and another quickly sprouts in its place. You've probably heard them before: Macs don't get viruses, we're too small to be a target, or changing passwords often keeps us safer....more
Personal Liability, Security Becomes Bigger Issues For CISOs
While the furor from CISO prosecutions has died down, worries continue over a lack of liability protections and potential targeting by cybercriminals and hackers for their privileged roles....more
The AI Security Crisis No One Is Preparing For
In this Help Net Security interview, Jacob Ideskog, CTO of Curity, discusses the risks AI agents pose to organizations. As these agents become embedded in enterprise systems, the potential for misuse, data leakage, and unauthorized access grows....more
AI
Fueled By AI, Enterprise Software Market Grew To $341.4 Billion In 2024 And Is About To Soar
Artificial intelligence (AI) integration is fueling a boom in enterprise software sales that could nearly double the size of the market to about $600 billion by 2029....more
Agentic AI Promises A Cybersecurity Revolution - With Asterisks
Experts say agentic AI will rapidly change cybersecurity, freeing up talent to focus on more dynamic work. But with AI agents still in their infancy, they also urge CISOs to ask a lot of questions before committing to this new security paradigm....more
How AI Tools Can Become A Time And Cost Trap
The psychological challenges of the (new) digital era....more
Why Your Entire Workforce Should Become AI Experts
AI isn't just for data scientists anymore. In this episode of Today in Tech, host Keith Shaw talks with Red Hat Distinguished Engineer Mo Duffy about how businesses can empower everyone - from HR to marketing to customer support - to become fluent in AI....more
The rise of Vibe Coding - using AI tools for code generation - has boosted software development by enhancing productivity and accessibility. However, this paradigm shift introduces significant security challenges that cannot be overlooked. Register
Email
Thunderbird 142 Lands With Modest Upgrades - Plus Talk Of Pro Service Ahead
Bug fixes, message links, and hints of Exchange support in the pipeline...more
Why The Email Security Battle Feels Lost (At Least For Now)
91% of all cyberattacks start with email. And yet, for all the industry buzzwords, protocols, and vendors promising a more secure future, the inbox remains the weakest link....more
NVIDIA News
New Lightweight AI Model for Project G-Assist Brings Support for 6GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX and RTX PRO GPUs
Updates announced at Gamescom - including new G-Assist capabilities and plug-in hub, and a particle system for NVIDIA RTX Remix - bring generative AI tools to more RTX users....more
Think SMART: How to Optimize AI Factory Inference Performance
The Think SMART framework helps enterprises strike the right balance of accuracy, latency and return on investment when deploying AI at AI factory scale....more
Oracle News
Parallelize NFS with pNFS
We hear more and more about data hungry workloads and the ravenous appetite of AI training. There are a number of storage solutions that can help with data hungry workloads. We've seen a rise in interest in the Lustre file system, GPFS and some other main stream cluster file systems. However don't overlook NFS for these workloads: pNFS offers a native Linux kernel mechanism to achieve very high data throughput....more
What's New in Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 84
Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 84 is now available via 'pkg update' from the support repository or by downloading the SRU from My Oracle Support Doc ID 2433412.1....more
Rapid7 News
From Perimeter to Core: Vector Command Advanced Expands Red Team Coverage
In today's threat landscape, meeting compliance requirements like PCI DSS, SOC 2, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework is no longer just about ticking boxes. It's about proving that your security controls actually work under pressure....more
What the First 24 Hours of a Cyberattack Can Teach You About MDR
When a zero-day exploit targets your infrastructure, the clock starts ticking. Fast. And in today's threat landscape, speed without context is chaos....more
SentinelOne News
The Evolution of Endpoint Protection with Advanced Threats
Cybercrime went from a nuisance to a threat when its practitioners realized their crimes could produce benefits such as financial gain, political pressure, and to promote causes supported by the attackers....more
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity - Week 34
Noah Michael Urban, a key UNC3944 member, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy. Arrested in January 2024, he and four others were charged with stealing millions from cryptocurrency wallets using SMS phishing, SIM swaps, and stolen employee credentials....more
We'll explore how leading organizations are adopting this model to scale Terraform, streamline governance, and move from static configurations to dynamic, self-managing systems. Register