Month: June 2024
Mozilla Firefox finally allows you to further protect local access to stored credentials in the browser’s password manager using your device’s login, including a password, fingerprint, pin, or other biometrics. To be clear, this new feature does not protect against information-stealing malware but rather prevents people with physical or remote access to the device from…
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The restoration comes more than a month after the attack, and means that patients ‘should see improved efficiencies in appointment scheduling, wait times for appointments and prescription fulfillment.’ The Ascension health system said Friday that access to electronic health records has been fully restored, more than a month after a ransomware attack forced the shut…
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‘You are talking [about] a full range of partners, and whoever made the biggest deals [got] the biggest discount, lowest price, and they [were] out there, basically creating a lot of channel chaos and conflict in the marketplace,’ says Tan. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said the “chaos and conflict” that dominated VMware’s go-to-market model prior…
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Epicor, a leading ERP application developer, says the addition of KYKLO’s product information management and lead-generation software will accelerate its efforts to transform ERP beyond its traditional transactional role to “a system of insights and action.” ERP application developer Epicor Software has acquired KYKLO, a fast-growing provider of product information management (PIM) and content-drive lead…
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For the week ending June 14, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including AWS, Mistral AI, Fortinet, Pax8 and Confluent. The Week Ending June 14 Topping this week’s Came to Win is Amazon Web Services for its plan to invest $230 million in AI startups, including…
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NHS England revealed today that multiple London hospitals impacted by last week’s Synnovis ransomware attack were forced to cancel hundreds of planned operations and appointments. Formerly known as Viapath, Synnovis was established as GSTS Pathology in 2009 and switched to the Synnovis brand in October 2022. The organization was established as a partnership between SYNLAB…
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A former quality assurance employee of National Computer Systems (NCS) was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for reportedly deleting 180 virtual servers after being fired. Nagaraju Kandula, 39, pleaded guilty to deleting the virtual servers in an attempt to sabotage the firm’s systems out of spite for getting fired from NCS,…
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity Windows vulnerability abused in ransomware attacks as a zero-day to its catalog of actively exploited security bugs. Tracked as CVE-2024-26169, this security flaw is caused by an improper privilege management weakness in the Windows Error Reporting service. Successful exploitation lets local attackers gain…
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The U.S. cybersecurity agency also added a recently disclosed Google Pixel flaw to its list of exploited vulnerabilities. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed that a Microsoft Windows privilege escalation vulnerability has seen exploitation in attacks. The vulnerability (tracked at CVE-2024-26169) this week was tied to attacks by the Black Basta ransomware…
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Chinese walls Representative Carlos Gimenez, a Florida Republican, questioned Microsoft’s operations in China, which Smith testified accounted for less than 1.5% of Microsoft’s sales. China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law obliges all organisations including foreign companies to cooperate with China’s intelligence agencies in matters of national security. Smith, an attorney and Microsoft’s general counsel for more…
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