Month: June 2024
Safety and location services company Life360 says it was the target of an extortion attempt after a threat actor breached and stole sensitive information from a Tile customer support platform. Life360 provides real-time location tracking, crash detection, and emergency roadside assistance services to more than 66 million members worldwide. In December 2021, it acquired Bluetooth…
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Read MoreCISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise. Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities established the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog…
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Apple’s much-anticipated upcoming suite of AI features for select iPhones, Macs and iPads is called Apple Intelligence, and it will include an enhanced Siri experience, systemwide Writing Tools, message and notification prioritization, call transcription and summarization, and ChatGPT integration. Apple Monday revealed Apple Intelligence, its much-anticipated suite of AI features that will enhance Siri’s natural…
Read MoreImpersonation scams are on the rise and often use the names and titles of government employees. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of recent impersonation scammers claiming to represent the agency. As a reminder, CISA staff will never contact you with a request to wire money, cash, cryptocurrency, or use gift cards…
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The multi-cloud networking upstart is partnering with the “de facto” security leader Palo Alto Networks. The new relationship will give enterprises new approach to securing applications and workloads across multi-cloud environments, Prosimo execs told CRN. Multi-cloud networking upstart Prosimo is joining forces with security specialist Palo Alto Networks to further secure application access at a…
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‘That’s what we’re attempting to do within our multi-cloud strategy. I think that’s what customers want. So I’m optimistic that’s the way the world will settle out. We’ll get rid of these fees for moving data from cloud to cloud,’ says Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison on the company’s earnings call. Just prior to…
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Microsoft has announced that the DirectAccess remote access solution is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release of Windows, recommending companies migrate to the ‘Always On VPN’ for enhanced security and continued support. DirectAccess is a bidirectional remote access technology introduced by Microsoft in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, providing domain-joined…
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Jun 12, 2024NewsroomKubernetes / Endpoint Security Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an ongoing cryptojacking campaign targeting misconfigured Kubernetes clusters to mine Dero cryptocurrency. Cloud security firm Wiz, which shed light on the activity, said it’s an updated variant of a financially motivated operation that was first documented by CrowdStrike in March 2023. “In this incident,…
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At Splunk .conf24, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and Go-to-Market President Gary Steele spoke to Splunk customers about the benefits of integrating the companies’ security and observability products and highlighted the opportunities those combinations will create for partners. Cisco Systems and Splunk executives are putting on a full-court press at Splunk .conf24 this week to tout…
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