Month: July 2024
Unless there’s a concerted effort by a lot more tech industry vendors than just CrowdStrike, it’s unlikely to be the last incident of this kind. Within the software industry, it has long been a cliche´ to point out the inevitability of bugs. As the thinking goes, the world of software is insanely complex, and the…
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The email security vendor will add 175 employees with the acquisition of 23-year-old Code42, the company says. Email security vendor Mimecast will add 175 employees with the acquisition of longtime cybersecurity vendor Code42, the company announced Wednesday. Mimecast did not disclose the terms of the acquisition. Joe Payne (pictured), Code42’s president and CEO since 2015,…
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Docker has issued security updates to address a critical vulnerability impacting certain versions of Docker Engine that could allow an attacker to bypass authorization plugins (AuthZ) under certain circumstances. The flaw was initially discovered and fixed in Docker Engine v18.09.1, released in January 2019, but for some reason, the fix wasn’t carried forward in later…
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In the past few months, the Telegram clicker game Hamster Kombat has taken the world of cryptocurrency game enthusiasts by storm. Even though the gameplay, which mostly entails repeatedly tapping the screen of one’s mobile device, might be rather simple, players are after something more: the possibility of earning big once Hamster Kombat’s creators unveil…
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Digital Security Organizations, including those that weren’t struck by the CrowdStrike incident, should resist the temptation to attribute the IT meltdown to exceptional circumstances 23 Jul 2024 • , 3 min. read As the dust settles on the cyber-incident caused by CrowdStrike releasing a corrupted update, many businesses will, or should, conduct a thorough post-mortem…
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‘Year-to-date, our AI infrastructure and generative AI solutions for Cloud customers have already generated billions in revenues and are being used by more than 2 million developers,’ said Google CEO Sundar Pichai during the company’s recent Q2 2024 earnings report. Google CEO Sundar Pichai during the company’s second quarter 2024 earnings call spoke bullishly about…
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Microsoft has fixed a known Windows 10 update issue that broke Microsoft Connected Cache (MCC) node discovery on enterprise networks. The fix is included with the KB5040525 July 2024 preview update for Windows 10 22H2 released yesterday, which also comes with fixes for WDAC issues causing memory leaks and app failures, “This issue was resolved…
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American cybersecurity company KnowBe4 says a person it recently hired as a Principal Software Engineer turned out to be a North Korean state actor who attempted to install information-stealing on its devices. The firm detected and stopped the malicious actions in time, so no data breach occurred. However, the case highlights the continued threat posed…
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Here’s everything you need to know about the new VMware Cloud Foundation on Google Cloud VMware Engine offering, incentives, price cuts and how it relates to Microsoft Azure and AWS’ VMware cloud solutions. Google Cloud is putting the full court press on urging VMware Cloud Foundation customers to migrate their VMware workloads over to Google…
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Google Chrome now warns when downloading risky password-protected files and provides improved alerts with more information about potentially malicious downloaded files. These new, more detailed warning messages help users quickly learn the nature of the danger presented by each file downloaded from the Internet. For this, Google introduced a two-tier download warning system that uses AI-powered…
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