Month: October 2024
EU and U.S. breach notification laws require companies to report security breaches – but is transparency important for anything beyond compliance? Many organizations announce breaches late – and leave clients, employees, and partners in the dark. That late response begs the question: is transparency: good or bad for a company’s reputation? Although seen as a…
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Oct 18, 2024Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Browser Security Microsoft has disclosed details about a now-patched security flaw in Apple’s Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) framework in macOS that has likely come under exploitation to get around a user’s privacy preferences and access data. The shortcoming, codenamed HM Surf by the tech giant, is tracked as…
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Amazon’s new in-office work policy starts Jan. 2. Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has reportedly suggested workers who don’t want to abide by an upcoming five-days-a-week in-office work policy can find employment elsewhere. According to Reuters, an all-hands meeting for the Seattle-based cloud giant included Garman telling attendees that “if there are people who…
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Microsoft is warning enterprise customers that, for almost a month, a bug caused critical logs to be lost, putting at risk companies that rely on this data to detect unauthorized activity. The issue was first reported by Business Insider earlier this month, who reported that Microsoft had began notifying customers that their logging data had…
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Sanjay Poonen, who joined Cohesity two years ago as CEO, shed light on his company, the value of data and more at this week’s 2024 XChange Best of Breed Conference in Atlanta. Cohesity was founded to develop technology for protecting and managing data, but more recently has gone beyond that by helping customers find value…
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A new ClickFix campaign is luring users to fraudulent Google Meet conference pages showing fake connectivity errors that deliver info-stealing malware for Windows and macOS operating systems. ClickFix is a social-engineering tactic that emerged in May, first reported by cybersecurity company Proofpoint, from a threat actor (TA571) that used messages impersonating errors for Google Chrome, Microsoft Word,…
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‘It’s all about using AI to build a smarter future together for all,’ Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang said in kicking off the show this week. ‘Lenovo believes that AI is real. It’s not another fleeting trend. It’s not an inflated bubble. AI is already improving the lives of individuals, improving productivity for enterprises…
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An Alabama man was arrested today by the FBI for his suspected role in hacking the SEC’s X account to make a fake announcement that Bitcoin ETFs were approved. The Department of Justice said that 25-year-old Eric Council, of Alabama, and conspirators conducted a SIM-swap attack to take over the identity of the person in…
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Here’s where nine solution provider top executives see as the biggest generative AI opportunities in the channel in 2025. Channel partners are bullish about the generative AI opportunities next year as customers still need more guidance around their artificial intelligence strategy and future. From AI advisory services to developing new GenAI offerings for customers, channel…
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North Korean IT professionals who trick Western companies into hiring them are stealing data from the organization’s network and asking for a ransom to not leak it. Dispatching IT workers to seek employment at companies in wealthier nations is a tactic that North Korea has been using for years as a means to obtain privileged…
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