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When developing database-driven .NET and .NET Core, regardless of the database we intend to deploy in the end, we will often want to work with a database engine that is lightweight and fast, in order ...

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UPDATE (June 5 th, 2025): Since publishing this blogpost, we have updated our tracking to better reflect the full range and complexity of the malicious activities carried out by the OilRig APT group.

Technologists are awed by it. Colleges fear it. Currently, we’re all obsessed by it. But amid the noise, what can you actually do with ChatGPT? How might it serve a regular office worker? Join the ...

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ESET researchers discovered a new wiper and its execution tool, both attributed to the Agrius APT group, while analyzing a supply-chain attack abusing an Israeli software developer. The group is known ...

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