Month: July 2024
Court cases against CISOs that threaten jail time and expensive penalties such as those against former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan and SolarWinds’ Timothy G. Brown, have kept CISOs wake at night. The pressure is on for CISOs to figure out how to minimize not only professional but personal risk from the important work they do…
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Jul 03, 2024NewsroomMalware / Threat Intelligence An unnamed South Korean enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor’s product update server has been found to be compromised to deliver a Go-based backdoor dubbed Xctdoor. The AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC), which identified the attack in May 2024, did not attribute it to a known threat actor or group,…
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Jul 03, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an attack campaign that targets various Israeli entities with publicly-available frameworks like Donut and Sliver. The campaign, believed to be highly targeted in nature, “leverage target-specific infrastructure and custom WordPress websites as a payload delivery mechanism, but affect a variety of entities across unrelated verticals,…
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‘[AI] is going to impact more or less every technology we take to market as a channel,’ said incoming TD Synnex CEO Patrick Zammit. ‘Of course you have the software. One of the most popular applications now is Copilot from Microsoft. But AI PCs are coming, AI servers, AI switches, AI storage. That technology is…
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‘Moving forward, I hope Patrick will continue to prioritize AI and other emerging technologies, ensuring that TD Synnex remains a leader in technological innovation. Continued support and investment in these areas will be crucial as we navigate the future of the IT landscape,’ says Inacomp Chairman and CEO Michael Kanan, who is also president of…
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‘The company is in great shape,’ says TD Synnex CEO Rich Hume, who turns 65 in August and will retire effective September 1. ‘We’ve got a great leader in Patrick (Zammit) that’ll come to the forefront. And I’ve completed my work.’ Architected A Distribution Powerhouse TD Synnex CEO Rich Hume, the architect behind the Tech…
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Two weeks after it was struck by a ransomware attack, the software maker says that ‘substantially all’ of the car dealerships it serves are back online. CDK Global said Tuesday that “substantially all” of the car dealerships it serves are back online, two weeks after the software maker was struck by a crippling ransomware attack.…
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Cisco has released patches for several series of Nexus switches to fix a vulnerability that could allow attackers to hide the execution of bash commands on the underlying operating system. Although the flaw is rated with moderate severity because it requires administrative credentials to exploit, it has been exploited in the wild since April, showing…
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The Xbox gaming service is currently down due to a major outage, impacting customers worldwide and preventing them from signing into their accounts and playing games. According to a massive stream of user reports, the online gaming platform has been down for at least three hours, blocking them from playing cloud and offline games that require logging into an Xbox…
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‘The technical side is easy, it’s the business side that gets complicated. It’s managing employees that gets complicated, so it’s taking that as seriously as they take their technology stack,’ Strety CEO Brian Dosal tells CRN about the goal of the company’s new platform. BrightGauge founders Larry Garcia and Brian Dosal have partnered again to…
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