Month: June 2024
Hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability that affects all D-Link DIR-859 WiFi routers to collect account information from the device, including passwords. The security issue was disclosed in January and is currently tracked as CVE-2024-0769 (9.8 severity score) – a path traversal flaw that leads to information disclosure. Although D-Link DIR-859 WiFi router model reached end-of-life (EoL) and no…
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Image: Midjourney The new Brain Cipher ransomware operation has begun targeting organizations worldwide, gaining media attention for a recent attack on Indonesia’s temporary National Data Center. Indonesia is building out National Data Centers to securely store servers used by the government for online services and data hosting. On June 20th, one of the temporary National…
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Video Learn about the categories of threats that ‘topped the charts’ and the kinds of techniques that bad actors leveraged most commonly in the first half of this year. 28 Jun 2024 This week, the ESET research team released the H1 2024 issue of ESET Threat Report that examines the key trends and developments that…
Read MoreFriday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species A new squid species—of the Gonatidae family—was discovered. The video shows her holding a brood of very large eggs. Research paper. Tags: academic papers, squid, video Posted on June 28, 2024 at 5:01 PM • Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. Source link lol
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The software maker says it’s making progress on bringing dealerships back onto its core systems. As CDK Global continues making progress on bringing customers back onto its core platform after a crippling ransomware attack, cybersecurity experts told CRN that the massive disruption to car dealerships is another sign of the trade-offs involved in the growing…
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HPE CMO Jim Jackson and Vice President of Global Marketing Jason Newton provide the story behind the keynote address that they say sets a new bar for technology conference keynotes. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Executive Vice President and CMO Jim Jackson and his marketing team were determined to break new ground with the first-ever corporate keynote…
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There’s some possibly good news on the ransomware front. Companies are becoming more resilient to attacks, and the ransom payments extorted from businesses by hackers are on a downward trend. That’s one of the findings of insurance broker Marsh, which conducted an analysis of the more than 1800 cyber claims it received during 2023 from…
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For the week ending June 28, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including OpenAI, NinjaOne, ClearML, Nokia, Carahsoft and Nvidia. The Week Ending June 28 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is generative AI pioneer OpenAI for its savvy acquisition of Rockset and its technology…
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Car dealerships have been brought to a standstill across the United States after a software provider was hit by a ransomware attack. The attack, believed to be by the BlackSuit ransomware gang, forced CDK Global, makers of a platform widely used by car dealerships to conduct their everyday business, to down its IT systems and…
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More of Microsoft’s clients are being warned that emails they exchanged with the company were accessed by Russian hackers who broke into its systems and spied on staff inboxes. In January, Microsoft revealed that members of the “Midnight Blizzard” hacking group (also known as APT29 or Cozy Bear) had compromised the tech giant’s systems in…
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