Month: September 2024
The iPhone 16 series is arriving ahead of its much-hyped Apple Intelligence set of AI features, which will debut in beta next month with an initial set of features for the iPhone 15 Pro or higher as well as Macs and iPads with an M1 or newer system-on-chip. Apple said its newly revealed iPhone 16…
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TD Synnex, Skyhigh Security, Leidos, Microsoft, NetApp and Salesforce were among the tech companies making key executive hires and moves in August 2024. A chief information security officer at TD Synnex. A chief technology officer at Skyhigh Security. And a chief data officer at Leidos. Alicia Lynch, formerly with Cognizant; Steve Tait, formerly with Snow…
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Tenable®, the exposure management company, announced today that Shelly Raban, senior cloud security researcher for Tenable, will give a presentation at fwd:cloudsec Europe 2024, taking place on 17 September, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. During the session titled, “Who Watches the Watchmen? Stealing Credentials from Policy-as-Code Engines (and Beyond),” Raban will explore techniques adversaries use to…
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Highline Public Schools, a K-12 district in Washington state, has shut down all schools and canceled school activities after its technology systems were compromised in a cyberattack. In a statement issued Monday, the district confirmed that all schools would remain closed, and all activities, including athletics and meetings, would be canceled on September 9. However, the…
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Sep 09, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Hardware Security A novel side-channel attack has been found to leverage radio signals emanated by a device’s random access memory (RAM) as a data exfiltration mechanism, posing a threat to air-gapped networks. The technique has been codenamed RAMBO by Dr. Mordechai Guri, the head of the Offensive Cyber Research Lab…
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A privacy flaw in WhatsApp, an instant messenger with over 2 billion users worldwide, is being exploited by attackers to bypass the app’s “View once” feature and view messages again. Meta says that WhatsApp’s “View once” feature (introduced three years ago) enables users to share photos, videos, and voice messages privately, seeing that the recipient…
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‘The core of our job is to support and serve our clients effectively,’ says Stanley Louissant, founder and principal of New Jersey-based MSP Fluid Designs. ‘Keeping that focus will always lead to success.’ Stanley Louissaint started his MSP in 2001 as a one-man shop. Despite remaining the sole employee of his MSP, he’s grown a…
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From a new Business Outcomes Xcelerator partner program to increasing incentives for MSPs, here are six new partner launches from AWS that every channel partner needs to know about. Amazon Web Services has unleashed a slew of new incentives, programs and AWS Marketplace benefits with the goal of streamlining partners’ go-to-market capabilities and drive faster…
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With patches out for three years, attackers have set their sights on a pair of vulnerabilities affecting DrayTek VigorConnect. Background In November 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) launched its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, an effort to focus on vulnerabilities known to have been exploited and provide defenders with an actionable list…
Read MoreToday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)—in partnership with CISA, the National Security Agency (NSA), and other U.S. and international partners—released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory Russian Military Cyber Actors Target U.S. and Global Critical Infrastructure. This advisory provides overlapping cybersecurity industry cyber threat intelligence, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) associated with…
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