Month: April 2024
Because of its ubiquity as a network platform, Windows all too often gets blamed as the source of a host of network security vulnerabilities. But recent events have shown the truth — that all sorts of network components have flaws and that there are many nefarious means attackers can use to enter and take control.…
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The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services disclosed a data breach after patients’ personal and health information was exposed in a data breach resulting from a recent phishing attack impacting over two dozen employees. This integrated health system operates the public hospitals and clinics in L.A. County (the most populous county in the United…
Read MoreVideo The director of the Apollo 11 movie shares his views about the role of technology in addressing pressing global challenges, as well as why he became involved with Starmus 24 Apr 2024 We speak to Todd Douglas Miller, the director of the Apollo 11 movie and a recipient of the Stephen Hawking medal for…
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As we near the halfway point of the year, organizations are under tremendous pressure to grow businesses across all industries. It’s no secret: bottom lines must rise and 2024 has been earmarked as a pivotal year to revert to growth mode. Many organizations will find an uphill battle here; the previous few years have taken…
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Researchers have sinkholed a command and control server for a variant of the PlugX malware and observed in six months more than 2.5 million connections from unique IP addresses. Since last September, the sinkhole server received over 90,000 requests every day from infected hosts in more than 170 countries. Since September 2023, when Sekoia captured…
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Just one month after purchasing a data center campus in Pennsylvania for $650 million, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky says the cloud company will invest $11 billion to build a new data center campus in Indiana. Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky said the cloud company’s plan to invest $11 billion in building a new cloud…
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Extreme President and CEO Ed Meyercord and Nabil Bukhari, chief product and technology officer, speak with CRN about how AI and GenAI are shaping Extreme’s strategy, recent networking M&A activity — including the Cisco-Splunk acquisition and the pending HPE-Juniper deal — and how Extreme’s ‘One Network, One Cloud’ approach is helping the specialist stand out.…
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Apr 25, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cyber Threat The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Lazarus Group employed its time-tested fabricated job lures to deliver a new remote access trojan called Kaolin RAT. The malware could, “aside from standard RAT functionality, change the last write timestamp of a selected file and load any received DLL binary from…
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Reddit is investigating a major outage blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network’s websites and mobile apps. Users now see “502 Bad Gateway” and “Unknown server error” errors when accessing the Reddit website. Mobile users also report seeing an “Error: Choose failed Missing field ‘user_id’” error or an outage icon with the Reddit alien…
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What’s going on? A wave of cheap, crude, amateurish ransomware has been spotted on the dark web – and although it may not make as many headlines as LockBit, Rhysida, and BlackSuit, it still presents a serious threat to organizations. What’s “junk gun” ransomware? It’s a name coined by Sophos researchers for unsophisticated ransomware that…
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