Month: June 2024
TD Synnex CEO Rich Hume, who led Tech Data through the pandemic and the acquisition of rival Synnex, will retire Sept. 1. TD Synnex COO Patrick Zammit will take over. TD Synnex CEO Rich Hume, who led the company through six transformative years of massive growth through acquisition as well as running one of the…
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In an interview with CRN, AMD executive Forrest Norrod talks about how the company is “dramatically” increasing investments in its Instinct data center GPUs to compete with Nvidia and when it plans to make a greater focus on enabling channel partners to sell Instinct-based systems for AI workloads. AMD’s top data center executive said the…
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CDK Global, the provider of a software platform for auto dealerships, has had to shut down most of its systems due to what it described as “a cyber incident.” This had serious consequences for car dealers in the US, with reports saying that thousands of dealerships there were largely paralyzed for several hours on Wednesday.…
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What is Qilin? Qilin (also known as Agenda) is a ransomware-as-a-service criminal operation that works with affiliates, encrypting and exfiltrating the data of hacked organisations and then demanding a ransom be paid. Qilin seems like a strange name. Where does it come from? The Qilin is a creature from Chinese mythology that combines the features…
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A suspected Chinese threat actor tracked as UNC3886 uses publicly available open-source rootkits named ‘Reptile’ and ‘Medusa’ to remain hidden on VMware ESXi virtual machines, allowing them to conduct credential theft, command execution, and lateral movement. Mandiant has been tracking the threat actor for a long time, previously reporting attacks on government organizations leveraging a Fortinet…
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A Dutch appellate court has ruled that Oracle and Salesforce must continue defending a class-action lawsuit relating to the use of cookies to gather and track personal information for their Data Management Platforms (DMPs). The case raises issues about who is responsible when websites use third-party data platforms to track users, and relies on the…
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In an interview with CRN, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says the now-delayed Recall offering is just the latest case where ‘Microsoft has put profits and features over security.’ As sensational as the recent saga over Microsoft’s Recall feature may be, to anyone who has been following Microsoft’s series of security failures in recent years, it’s…
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‘The overall message is we’re embracing partners and we’re focused on them making money,’ CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz tells CRN. According to solution provider executive Ryan Morris, behind the stunning growth of cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike is something that’s been in shockingly short supply lately around the tech industry: long-term vision. From “day one,” CrowdStrike has…
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Threat actors are actively exploiting a SolarWinds Serv-U path-traversal vulnerability, leveraging publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits. Although the attacks do not appear particularly sophisticated, the observed activity underscores the risk posed by unpatched endpoints, emphasizing the urgent need for administrators to apply the security updates. The CVE-2024-28995 flaw The vulnerability, CVE-2024-28995, is a high-severity directory…
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Car dealership SaaS platform CDK Global suffered an additional breach Wednesday night as it was starting to restore systems shut down in an previous cyberattack. CDK Global is a software-as-a-service platform that provides a full suite of applications to handle a car dealership’s operation, including sales, back office, financing, inventory, and service and support. CDK became…
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