Month: October 2024
WWT CTO and AI expert Mike Taylor explains how the $20 billion ‘AI-first’ company is winning AI deals, creating new generative AI technology, and what a successful AI strategy looks like for a solution provider. World Wide Technology’s longtime technology guru, Mike Taylor, is a driving force in the $20 billion company’s artificial intelligence strategy—from…
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‘When we work with these jurisdictions, it’s not as if they’re putting in place the protections for the first time—which in former years, that’s what it was. We don’t have that anymore,’ Kris Lovejoy, Kyndryl’s global practice leader for security and resilience, tells CRN. For solution and service provider giant Kyndryl, working with U.S. jurisdictions…
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The free version of the popular WordPress plugin LiteSpeed Cache has fixed a dangerous privilege elevation flaw on its latest release that could allow unauthenticated site visitors to gain admin rights. LiteSpeed Cache is a caching plugin used by over six million WordPress sites, helping to speed up and improve user browsing experience. The newly discovered high-severity flaw…
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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins weighed in on what the fully renovated Cisco 360 partner program means for partners, who tell CRN that the “devil will be in the details.” Cisco 360, revealed this week at Cisco Partner Summit 2024, marks the biggest overhaul to the partner program in the company’s history and partners are eager…
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Microsoft is investigating a new Windows 11 issue that causes the Task Manager to say there are zero running apps and background processes. However, while the Task Manager doesn’t display the correct number of active processes, this is just a reporting issue: the app is otherwise fully functional and will show the list of running…
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The CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog and enhanced logging guidelines are among the new measurement tools added for the 2024 State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program. Last month, the Department of Homeland Security announced the availability of $279.9 million in grant funding for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program…
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Oct 31, 2024Ravie LakshmananSpyware / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an improved version of an Apple iOS spyware called LightSpy that not only expands on its functionality, but also incorporates destructive capabilities to prevent the compromised device from booting up. “While the iOS implant delivery method closely mirrors that of the macOS version, the…
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qBittorrent has addressed a remote code execution flaw caused by the failure to validate SSL/TLS certificates in the application’s DownloadManager, a component that manages downloads throughout the app. The flaw, introduced in a commit on April 6, 2010, was eventually fixed in the latest release, version 5.0.1, on October 28, 2024, more than 14 years…
Read MoreCISA released four Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on October 31, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. CISA encourages users and administrators to review newly released ICS advisories for technical details and mitigations. Source link lol
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Microsoft has fixed a known issue that prevents some apps launched from non-admin accounts from starting on Windows 10 22H2 systems after installing the September preview cumulative update. These launch issues are caused by the affected apps’ child processes running with low Integrity levels instead of medium. “After installing the September 2024 preview update (KB5043131),…
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