Dell G7 15, Alienware m15 and Area 51m with NVIDIA RTX graphics launched in India

Dell has updated its range of gaming laptops in India with NVIDIA’s latest RTX graphics cards. At an event held in New Delhi on Monday, Dell unveiled the G7 15 7590 gaming laptop along with Alienware m15 and the Area 51m gaming laptops. 

The Alienware Area 51m is one of its kind gaming laptop that supports upgradability and can be customized using desktop-class CPUs and graphics modules. Speaking of desktop-class CPU, the Area 51m is the first laptop to be powered by Intel’s 9th gen Core i7-9900HK octa-core CPU, supporting upto 64GB of RAM, so there’s serious power here. To top it further, it comes with the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card, making it a top-of-the-line gaming setup.

It features a 17-inch Full HD 144Hz display with narrow bezels with Alienware TactX keyboard that has a travel time of 2.2mm. The chassis of the laptop is crafted from a magnesium alloy and has certain points of interests. The thermal exhaust has a honeycomb pattern which is surrounded by a led strip which the company calls infinite loop. This RGB LED strip along with the power button and Alienware logo is customizable via Alien FX utility.

Dell also announced the Alienware m15 which is the company’s thinnest and lightest 15-inch gaming laptop yet measuring 17.9mm and 2.16Kgs. It comes close to the Zephyrus S which measures 16.1mm and is still the thinnest gaming laptop to exist. It features Intel’s 8th gen Core i7-8750H processor which is paired with 8GB/16GB of RAM and 512GB/1TB SSD. The base variant of the m15 has NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 while the other one comes with RTX 2070. The m15 has 6 RGB lighting zones and the Alienware m-series keyboard has 4 backlighting zones for RBG effects. 

Dell’s more affordable G-series of laptops have also been upgraded with the NVIDIA RTX graphics. The Dell G7 15 7590 has a metal chassis and is slim at 19.9mm. It is powered by Intel’s 8th gen Core i7-8750H processor paired with 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD storage. The G7 15 features a 15.6-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS panel with a refresh rate of 144Hz. 

Dell G7 15, Alienware m15 and Alienware Area 51m: prices and availability 

The Dell G7 15 7590 is priced at Rs 1,33,390 while the Alienware m15 starts at Rs 1,51,190 for the base variant. The top-end variant is priced at Rs 1,98,690 and also comes in Nebula Red colour option. Alienware’s Area 51m starts at Rs 2,53,890 for the base variant with RTX 2070 and tops up at Rs 3,03,590 for the RTX 2080.

All the three gaming laptops are available on Dell India store and interested buyers can also visit Dell retail outlets in their cities from April 1 to check them out.

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London’s top tourist attractions targeted by millions of cyberattacks

Some of London’s top tourist attractions are being bombarded with cyberattacks as hackers look to target visitor information, new research has found.

Much-loved institutions including the National History Museum are being attacked on a daily basis by hackers going after financial data of visitors according to a report from the Parliament Street think tank.

It found that just four of the most popular visitor attractions were attacked over 100 million times last year alone.

Targeted

The findings came from a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to four top attractions – Kew Gardens, National History Museum, Tate Gallery and Imperial War Museum – asking how often they had been targeted.

Overall, the institutions revealed they had been hit 109 million times, with Kew Gardens making up the majority having been hit 86 million times just last year – a year-on-year increase of 438 per cent.

The Imperial War Museum revealed it was attacked ten million times, the Natural History Museum reported 875,414 incidents and Tate Modern and Tate Britain reported 494,709 attacks together.

“Hackers are increasingly targeting organisations which appear to hold large amounts of personal financial data,” said Tim Dunton, managing director of Nimbus Hosting.

“The high volume of attacks in this case is reflective of the threat posed by cyber criminals going to extreme lengths to obtain confidential information.”

82 million of the total attacks used some form of spyware, making it the most popular attack technique, with information leak attempts found in 1.6 million cases.

“Tackling this problem means extra investment in encryption technologies, security certificates and necessary safeguards to keep membership details safe from outsider threats,” Dunton said.

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New iPad Air and iPad Mini 5 unveiled

Apple has just unveiled its new iPad Air and iPad Mini models, which are what we originally expected to be called the iPad Mini 5 and New iPad (2019).

The new iPad Air features a 10.5-inch Retina display with a resolution of 2224 x 1668, which equals around 264 pixels per inch.

The new iPad Mini has a 7.9-inch display with a resolution of 2048 x 1536. That equals 326 pixels per inch, and the company has also included Apple Pencil support.

This is the first small tablet from Apple that supports the company’s stylus, and support has continued on the larger model too. Both tablets come in either 64GB or 256GB models, and your color choices are silver, space gray or gold.

The new iPad Air. Image Credit: Apple

The new iPad Air. Image Credit: Apple

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The A12 Bionic chipset is powering these iPads, and that’s the tech that debuted in the iPhone XS range late last year. That should offer some impressive performance, but we won’t know that for certain until our full review.

Both tablets also feature the same camera setup, so you’ll have an 8MP shooter on the rear with an f/2.4 aperture. The front camera on both is a 7MP.

We don’t yet know how big the batteries will be in either model, but the company claims both tablets will last for up to 10 hours of “surfing the web on Wi‑Fi, watching video, or listening to music”.

Each also feature a Touch ID fingerprint scanner – something that has been rumored to be lost from upcoming iPads – as well as a 3.5mm headphone jack. 

Apple has also stuck with a Lightning cable connector for charging and data transfer, rather than USB-C like the latest iPad Pro range.

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Collaboration for end-to-end secure content

Digital content informs and facilitates every single aspect of business. We create and consume this content in innumerable ways, from our dependency on email to receive and send critical information and documents, to job application portals and shared storage services in the cloud. 

Therefore, it’s little wonder that digital content has become such a popular vehicle for cyber criminals for both getting threats into and information out of an organisation. Criminals are increasingly pursuing sophisticated techniques to infect content, including the use of zero-day and undetectable threats. Just this month, researchers discovered a new malware infiltration technique being used in the wild that allows attackers to trigger payloads when victims preview documents.

Similarly, once in the organisation, cyber criminals are also using content as a means of exfiltrating information. Indeed, Deep Secure researchers have demonstrated that attackers could use commands delivered over Twitter to steal more than 300,000 credit card details by concealing them into just 50 images – all while completely avoiding detection. The risk posed by content is presented at every turn and nowhere more so than with corporate access to the Internet via Web browsing and social media.

Achieving end-to-end defences

Whether an employee, a supply chain partner or a customer, every stakeholder in a business needs to know that the content they are engaging with is digitally pure and threat-free. However, security teams have a tough job keeping pace with a dynamic and highly developed threat landscape, and with cyber criminals who innovate faster than most Fortune 500 companies.

Traditional network defence solutions are no match for threats concealed in content – whether achieved through steganography, where information is encoded into an image, or the practice of using polymorphic files that continuously mutate to avoid detection. Once the preserve of nation-state intelligence agencies, these techniques have now descended down the security supply chain. Digital content is now routinely embedded with known, zero-day and even totally undetectable threats.

Faced with the new and imaginative ways cyber criminals are discovering to infiltrate malware or exfiltrate high vale data, there’s mounting pressure on the industry. Given the sheer amount of content consumed by organisations, the old cyber security mantra of “95 per cent secure” is just not good enough.  

Mitigating the end-to-end content threat mandates that best of breed technologies work seamlessly together. It is critical that security experts join forces to address today’s greatest challenges and close the gap in the market for defeating both detectable and undetectable threats. That’s why we’ve partnered with McAfee to secure all Web content. Working as part of a connected security ecosystem – combining diverse expertise and solutions for stronger protection – making it impossible for hackers to break through. Indeed, the integration of these technologies shows what can be achieved when security experts join forces.  

Image Credit: Pixabay

Image Credit: Pixabay

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Securing the entire journey

With threats in content rife, leaving malicious elements at the door is critical to the security of business networks. When it comes to the Web, the first step for the McAfee Web gateway is to authenticate access, apply acceptable usage policies, perform URL filtering and run anti-virus checks for known malware.  

However, with many undetectable threats now being concealed in content to avoid traditional detection methods, it is important to also have a solution that does not attempt to determine whether a piece of content is good or bad. Accordingly, the McAfee Web gateway hands the business content to Deep Secure’s Content Threat Removal technology. 

Content Threat Removal (CTR) doesn’t attempt to detect threats. Instead it transforms every piece of content handed to it by the McAfee Web Gateway, whether it is entering or leaving the organisation, rendering it 100 per cent threat-free. During the content transformation, only the valid business information is extracted from the content, the original – and any inherent threat – is then discarded and a wholly new piece of content is created, which outwardly looks identical to the original document, while eliminating all the potential hidden threats. At this stage, CTR hands the clean document back to the Web Gateway, which presents it to the intended recipient.  

Keep it in the right hands

Managing the business risk inherent in compromised content is not just about stopping potentially malicious threats from coming in, it’s about ensuring that the content and information you have remains in the right hands. Indeed, McAfee previously identified that insiders were responsible for more than 40 per cent of data breaches. 

In some cases, the threat is greatest when it comes from an insider intent on deliberately exfiltrating the content. While data loss protection tools can help, they cannot do anything to combat the loss of valuable data concealed in images using steganography and sent out, for example via webmail accounts through the Web gateway. Last year, for example, workers at General Electric were caught stealing information about the designs of turbines, with allegations that this information was then going to being sent on to the Chinese government. In this example, the alleged spies were using steganography, to conceal the information that they wanted to steal within images. 

In this scenario, CTR frustrates insiders at the final hurdle: it completely strips out the hidden information in any image leaving the network. By preventing criminals from concealing the information in images, it forces them to try other routes to exfiltrate it in plain sight. This, when applied in conjunction with Data Loss Prevention technologies, can prevent the theft and help identify the culprits. 

Image Credit: Shutterstock

Image Credit: Shutterstock

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A new age of cyber security

Today’s threats are larger and more complex than any one vendor can solve. We have to assume that cyber criminals are better at attacking than we are at defending, exploiting the cracks in an organisation’s security posture. That is why security vendors can no longer operate in isolation nor present themselves as “the answer” to businesses’ cyber risk. 

The most effective defences are created when vendors work together to develop an ecosystem that assures the end-to-end security of business processes – and the content that informs them. When it comes to the threat posed by content carried over the web and social media, I truly believe collaboration is key to bringing in a new age of cyber security.

Daniel Turner, CEO of Deep Secure 

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iMac 2019: release date, news and rumors

We’re pinning our hopes on seeing a new and improved iMac 2019 soon, especially if the latest rumors are to be believed. The iMac 2019 (if it does exist) needs to offer a decent leap in hardware power because, almost immediately after the iMac 2017 hit the streets, backed with a 7th-generation Intel Kaby Lake processor, Intel announced the new 8th-generation Coffee Lake chips – which have been succeeded by 9th-generation Coffee Lake Refresh chips. So, the iMac is currently two generations behind the curve when it comes to silicon, but we think the iMac 2019 could level the playing field.

Given the surprise announcement for the MacBook Pro 2018, we could see something similar happen with a new iMac. There has been some speculation that the iMac would release with the new Mac mini and MacBook Air, but it looks like we’ll have to keep waiting.

Instead, Apple will likely stay quiet about the iMac 2019 until it’s ready to release the all-in-one. Until we hear more about a new iMac from Apple, be sure to keep this page bookmarked, as we’ll keep it updated with all the latest information as it comes out.

Cut to the chase

  • What is it? A new version of the Apple iMac
  • When is it out? No one knows but Apple
  • What will it cost? Likely starting at around $1,099 (£1,049, AU$1,599)

iMac 2019 release date

The 2017 iMac was revealed back at WWDC 2017, but Apple didn’t repeat themselves last year. And, because there was no Mac hardware at the iPhone XS event, or the October 30 Mac event, we didn’t get a new iMac in 2018. But, we’re hoping to see a new iMac in 2019.

We’re still not absolutely certain that a new iMac will make it to market in 2019, but we seriously doubt Apple will abandon the iMac. Our money would be on a WWDC 2019 announcement: not only are there rumors of the new Mac Pro making an appearance at the show, but we’ve also seen rumors that Apple is going to show off tools for converting iOS apps to the Mac. What better to demo that than a new iMac?

As for when that will be, the WWDC 2019 dates have leaked, so it’ll probably land on June 3.

Meanwhile, a new rumor suggests we may see the iMac 2019 at an Apple event on March 25. alongside new iPads.

iMac 2018

iMac 2019 price

Again, there’s not much to go on right now concerning what the price of a 2018 iMac might be. Hopefully, the price won’t stray too much from last year’s models, unless there is going to be some seriously large upgrades when it comes to components.

The base price of last year’s iMac is $1,099 (£1,049, AU$1,599), so we’d like to see a similar price with the iMac 2018. Of course, the iMac comes in various configurations (and prices) to suit your needs.

However, recent shortages, especially in Intel’s processors, may lead to an increase in manufacturing costs that Apple will likely pass on to the consumer. 

With the high-end iMac Pro starting at $4,999 (£4,899, AU$7,299), we can envision an iMac 2018 costing between $1,000 (£1,000, AU$1,500) and $2,500 (£2,000, AU$3,000). 

iMac 2019: what we want to see

While we don’t know much of anything about the iMac 2019 , we still have plenty of ideas about what we’d like to see in a new version of the all-in-one. Read on for your wish list of what we want to see out of the iMac 2019.  

iMac 2018

A revamped design

While we love the look of the iMac, it’s sort of had the same design for the past 12 years, so 2018 could be a great year to tweak the look. That could mean a minor revision, such as slimming the body even further, or something more drastic.

Rumors of an iMac redesign have been swirling since a post on Reddit, apparently by a ‘Foxconn Insider’ who worked for the company that builds the devices for Apple, claimed there would be an update to the iMac and its peripherals.

Color-wise, the aluminum design of the iMac has been a staple since 2007, so we wouldn’t mind seeing another color option with the iMac 2019 – perhaps a Space Gray version, like the iMac Pro?

iMac 2018

Take inspiration from the iMac Pro

The iMac Pro is a fantastic device, and while it is definitely a product aimed at a completely different audience than the iMac 2019 will be, there are a few things the standard iMac could incorporate from its more expensive sibling.

We’d love to see the iMac 2019 ditch the hard drive, and instead stick with solid state drives – this would allow Apple to make it even slimmer, while giving it a huge speed boost. Even better for photographers and filmmakers is if Apple allowed UHS-II SD card support, thereby streamlining the post-production process.

The iMac Pro also features some clever cooling technology to help reduce the heat of the components, again allowing for a thinner design without noisy fans, and we’d love to see that in the iMac 2019 as well.

However, if Apple includes the T2 chip used for security and ‘Hey, Siri’ commands in the iMac 2019, users might have to deal with the fact that Apple locked it out to third party repairs. Make sure you pick up that AppleCare, is all we’re saying.

Oh, and did we mention we’d really like to see a Space Gray iMac?

iMac 2018

Take inspiration from the MacBook and iPhone

Whilst we’re getting ideas from other Apple devices, there’s a few things we’d like to see from the iPhone and MacBook appear in the iMac 2019.

For example, how cool would it be if the Touch Bar from certain MacBooks turned up on a redesigned iMac keyboard? Those touch-sensitive buttons would be a fantastic addition.

Also, we’ve been very impressed by the Face ID technology of the iPhone XS and iPad Pro, so if Apple is thinking of upgrading the FaceTime camera on the iMac 2019, we’d love to see this included, so we could unlock our new iMac with just a glance.

Boosted specs

While know pretty much nothing about the hardware that’ll be included in the iMac 2017, we’d love to see it include the latest and best components when it’s revealed.

Now, what we really want to see is Apple shoving the latest 9th-generation Coffee Lake Refresh processors into the iMac 2019, so that Apple fans could have access to these octa-core behemoths. But, even if Apple is more conservative and sticks with an 8th-generation Coffee Lake processor, the iMac 2019 will still get a huge performance boost over last year’s model.

We’re also fairly certain that Apple will use one of its T2 co-processors in the iMac 2019, probably for ‘Hey Siri’ commands, much like the rest of Apple’s recent devices. 

Apple is also reportedly working on crafting its own processors, in a rumored program called the ‘Kalamata Initiative”. This will see the Cupertino giant replace all Intel processors with its own by 2020. This is a huge ordeal, to be sure, but Apple seems to be well on the way working on its own chips in a super-secret lab.

Fingers crossed we see some – or all – of these predictions come to fruition.

Gabe Carey has also contributed to this report

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Get a free PlayStation 4 in awesome Virgin Media broadband and TV flash sale

When Virgin says flash sale, it really puts a lot of emphasis on the flash part, often giving you as little as a day or two to grab some impressive broadband deals. This time is no exception, as Virgin is dangling the very tempting offer of a free PS4 and FIFA 19 or £150 off the price of your internet bills on a big broadband and TV deal – and you only have until March 20 to get it.

That’s a bit of a daunting time frame but this feels like one of those worthwhile snap decisions to us. And the great thing here is that Virgin gives you some choice with this deal.  

You can choose between the Full House Movies Bundle and the Full House Sports bundle – options for both the sports fanatics and the movie lovers of the world. That means superfast average speeds of 213Mb, over 240 TV channels, a host of TV box sets and, depending on which package you go for, either Sky Cinema or Sky Sports. 

You can see all of the details of this flash sale below. Or if you were hoping for something a little cheaper or the time limit to buy is putting you off, check out our best broadband and TV deals page for the next best options.

Virgin’s broadband and TV deal in full:

Other options on the Full House Bundle

If you’re not really too interested in the PlayStation 4 and would rather just stick to bill credit you do have two options. Virgin has another sale on the Full House Bundle alongside this with cheaper bills of £20 a month less.

Not only does that work out as a better overall saving over the bill credit but you also have more time to get it, with Virgin’s other sale ending on March 24. But, going with this cheaper package will cut your speeds in half and lose you Sky Cinema or Sky Sports, so if you’re a movie/sports fan or need fast speeds, the saving might not be worth your while.

What do I get with the Full House Bundle?

With this special version of Virgin’s Full House Bundle you’re getting not just the super fast fibre speeds Virgin is famous for, but also a huge array of channels. in fact, you’re getting over 230 including all of the BT Sport channels in HD, Disney and National Geographic Wild in HD.

 On top of live TV, Virgin also includes exclusive box sets such as Walking Dead and Sky Cinema for all of your binge-watching needs. The incredibly fast average internet speeds of 213Mb, unlimited downloads and inclusive weekend calls is a great way to finish off this package.

Is Virgin fibre broadband available in my area?

We are now at the point where around 60% of the UK households are able to receive superfast Virgin broadband. It’s easy to find out if you’re one of the those lucky people. Head to our dedicated Virgin broadband deals page (or the price comparison chart at the bottom of this page), enter your postcode where indicated at the top of the page and if deals show as available then you’re laughing.

If no results are returned, then head to our best fibre broadband deals page instead and do exactly the same thing to see whether you can get superfast fibre broadband with another provider, such as BT Superfast.