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GCP – (In)tuned to Takeovers: Abusing Intune Permissions for Lateral Movement and Privilege Escalation in Entra ID Native Environments
Written by: Thibault Van Geluwe de Berlaere, Karl Madden, Corné de Jong The Mandiant Red Team recently supported a client to visualize the possible impact of a compromise by an advanced threat actor. During the assessment, Mandiant moved laterally from the customer’s on-premises environment to their Microsoft Entra ID tenant and obtained privileges to compromise […]
AWS – Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku model now available in Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku model is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Claude 3.5 Haiku is the next generation of Anthropic’s fastest model, combining rapid response times with improved reasoning capabilities, making it ideal for tasks that require both speed and intelligence. Claude 3.5 Haiku improves across every skill set and surpasses even Claude 3 Opus, […]
AWS – Announcing enhanced support for medical imaging data with lossy compression
Today, HealthImaging launched enhancements that better handle lossy compressed medical imaging data. Some medical images, such as whole slide microscopy, ultrasound, and cardiology, utilize lossy image compression. With this feature launch, HealthImaging better supports lossy encoded data, and helps lower storage costs. The HealthImaging import process encodes most image frames (pixel data) in the High-Throughput […]
AWS – Amazon SES adds inline template support to send email APIs
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now allows customers to provide email templates directly within the SendBulkEmail or SendEmail API request. SES will use the provided inline template content to render and assemble the email content for delivery, reducing the need to manage template resources in your SES account. Previously, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) customers […]
AWS – Amazon Q Business adds simplified setup and new web app experience
Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative AI–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. Amazon Q Business now offers a simplified onboarding that helps administrators deliver a secure AI assistant quickly and a web app experience that allows […]
GCP – Can AI eliminate manual processing for insurance claims? Loadsure built a solution to find
Traditionally, insurance claims processing has been a labor-intensive and time-consuming process, often involving manual verification of documents and data entry. This can lead to delays in claim settlements and a frustrating experience for policyholders. Loadsure, a global Insurtech firm based in London, recognized the need to address these challenges and sought a solution that would […]
GCP – Flipping out: Modernizing a classic pinball machine with cloud connectivity
In today’s cloud-centric world, we often take for granted the ease with which we can integrate our applications with a vast array of powerful cloud services. However, there are still countless legacy systems and other constrained environments where integration is far from straightforward. We faced this challenge head-on when building Backlogged Pinball, a custom pinball […]
GCP – A practical guide to synthetic data generation with Gretel and BigQuery DataFrames
In our previous post, we explored how integrating Gretel with BigQuery DataFrames streamlines synthetic data generation while preserving data privacy. To recap, BigQuery DataFrames is a Python client for BigQuery, providing pandas-compatible APIs with computations pushed down to BigQuery. Gretel offers a comprehensive toolbox for synthetic data generation using cutting-edge machine learning techniques, including large […]
GCP – Mandatory MFA is coming to Google Cloud. Here’s what you need to know
At Google Cloud, we’re committed to providing the strongest security for our customers. As pioneers in bringing multi-factor authentication (MFA) to millions of Google users worldwide, we’ve seen firsthand how it strengthens security without sacrificing a smooth and convenient online experience. That’s why we will soon require MFA for all Google Cloud users who currently […]
GCP – Elia Group helps businesses and consumers reduce carbon emissions with Vertex AI
Editors note: Today we’re hearing from Oz Ural, Product Lead at Elia Group, about the Group’s innovative approach to measuring and forecasting the CO2 intensity of electricity across their grid. This is helping businesses make informed decisions about their energy consumption. The energy sector is facing huge, exciting challenges. The transition from fossil fuels to […]