Month: May 2024
Today, the LockBit ransomware gang claimed they were behind the April cyberattack on Canadian pharmacy chain London Drugs and is now threatening to publish stolen data online after allegedly failed negotiations. London Drugs has over 9,000 employees who provide healthcare and pharmacy services in over 80 stores across Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and British Columbia. An…
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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna’s boldest statements during his keynote at IBM Think 2024 Tuesday revolved around IBM’s new product launches, AI and his vision for quantum computing. IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna took to the stage Tuesday at IBM Think 2024 to give his bullish thoughts on IBM’s new products, his vision for quantum…
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Mandia told Mandiant employees he will remain as an advisor at the esteemed cyber incident response and threat intelligence firm that he founded in 2004. With Mandiant now well along in its integration into Google Cloud, founder Kevin Mandia plans to step down at the end of the month but will remain involved as an…
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Qualcomm is stepping up the competition against Intel and AMD in the PC processor space with its new Snapdragon X chips, which it says enable faster performance, better on-device AI processing and longer battery life in several high-end laptops from HP, Dell and Lenovo. Microsoft is signaling the dawn of a new era for personal…
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Threat actors were found breaching AWS accounts using authentication secrets leaked as plaintext in Atlassian Bitbucket artifact objects. The issue was discovered by Mandiant, who was investigating a recent exposure of Amazon Web Services (AWS) secrets that threat actors used to gain access to AWS. Although the issue was discovered in the context of an investigation, it illustrates how data previously…
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Western Sydney University (WSU) has notified students and academic staff about a data breach after threat actors breached its Microsoft 365 and Sharepoint environment. WSU is an educational institute in Australia offering a wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate, and research programs across various disciplines. It has 47,000 students and over 4,500 regular and seasonal staff, and it…
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‘We want to inspire you to reimagine organizations for artificial intelligence. And we want to encourage you to act fast,’ Michael Dell tells the crowd at Dell Technologies World. Dell Technologies’ much-promised blizzard of AI announcements fell on Las Vegas Monday with each one leaving partners a path to add value for the millions of…
Read MoreThreat actors were found breaching AWS accounts using authentication secrets leaked as plaintext in Atlassian Bitbucket artifact objects. The issue was discovered by Mandiant, who was investigating a recent exposure of Amazon Web Services (AWS) secrets that threat actors used to gain access to AWS. Although the issue was discovered in the context of an investigation, it illustrates how data previously…
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The arrival of new AI-powered capabilities and technologies such as XDR have the potential to enable faster detection of threats than was previously possible, according to executives from both companies. Cisco and Palo Alto Networks may have an intensifying rivalry in the market for security operations tools, but executives from both companies agree on this:…
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Rockwell Automation warned customers to disconnect all industrial control systems (ICSs) not designed for online exposure from the Internet due to increasing malicious activity worldwide. Network defenders should never configure such devices to allow remote connections from systems outside the local network. By taking them offline, they can drastically reduce their organizations’ attack surface. This…
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