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Some 87 percent of IT decision makers in Singapore say machine learning will speed up decision-making process as well as facilitate automation in security operations. Just 32 percent of organisations in Singapore currently tap machine learning, although 52 percent believe such tools' ability to make complex decisions is imperative to the success of their business. A further 87 percent said greater automation brought about by machine learning would speed up decision-making process, while 80 percent said it would improve accuracy of such decisions, revealed a  survey by ServiceNow . Conducted by Oxford Economics, the study polled 500 CIOs across 11 countries, including 91 from three Asia-Pacific markets: Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. Ten percent of the global sample were from Singapore. ServiceNow touted machine learning as software that analysed and improved its own performance without direct human intervention, enabling it to make increasingly complex decisions...

It finally happened. Today, all 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux. Linux rules supercomputing. This day has been coming since 1998, when Linux first appeared on the TOP500 Supercomputer list . Today it finally happened:  All 500 of the world's fastest supercomputers are running Linux . The last two non-Linux systems, a pair of Chinese IBM POWER computers running AIX, dropped off the  November 2017 TOP500 Supercomputer list . Overall, China now leads the supercomputing race with 202 computers to the US' 144. China also leads the US in aggregate performance. China's supercomputers represent 35.4 percent of the Top500's flops, while the US trails with 29.6 percent. With an anti-science regime in charge of the government, America will only continue to see its technological lead decline. When the  first Top500 supercomputer list was compiled in June 1993 , Linux was barely more than a toy. It hadn't even adopted Tux as its masc...

Exploiting the vulnerability can lead to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Cisco   has patched a vulnerability in IOS XE which if exploited can corrupt data and force denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Last week, the tech giant said the bug,  CVE-2017-12319 , is found in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) over an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) for Cisco IOS XE, a network operating system designed for the enterprise. In  a security advisory , Cisco said the medium-risk bug could be harnessed by attackers to "cause the device to reload, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition, or potentially corrupt the BGP routing table, which could result in network instability." The bug exists due to changes made between IOS XE software releases, and the implementation of  BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN RFC (RFC 7432) , in particular, was at fault. "When the BGP Inclusive Multicast Ethernet Tag Route or BGP EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement Route update packet is rec...

Webmasters should update immediately to prevent website takeovers. A bug discovered in WordPress allows attackers to trigger an SQL injection attack leading to complete website hijacking. The vulnerability was discovered in the WordPress content management system (CMS) versions 4.8.2 and below. On Tuesday,  WordPress announced  the launch of version 4.8.3 as a security release which mitigates the security flaw. The CMS provider "strongly encourage[s] you to update your sites immediately." The vulnerability,  CVE-2017-14723 , occurs as WordPress versions 4.8.2 and earlier mishandles certain characters, which can lead to $wpdb->prepare() creating "unexpected and unsafe queries" which can lead to potential SQL injection attacks. "WordPress core is not directly vulnerable to this issue, but we've added hardening to prevent plugins and themes from accidentally causing a vulnerability," WordPress says. The vulnerability was reported by se...