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Over 28,000 people from Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, and other countries in the Eurasian region were impacted by a large-scale cryptocurrency-stealing malware campaign. The malware campaign disguises itself as legitimate software promoted via YouTube videos and fraudulent GitHub repositories where victims download password-protected archives that initiate the infection. According to cybersecurity firm Dr. Web, the campaign uses…
Read MoreAvalon Technologies’ Newly Hired President Talks VMware Costs, Dell Storage And Leaning Into Channel
‘The market obviously is shifting faster and faster to the channel. I wanted to go somewhere where I felt like there was growth potential, but still had the feeling of a family-owned business,’ Avalon Technologies President Todd Johnson, an 18-year Dell Technologies veteran, tells CRN. Michigan-based solution provider Avalon Technologies has hired Todd Johnson to…
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With AI the name of the game this year at Zoomtopia 2024, here are the major product announcements and enhancements revealed at the event that should be on partners’ radars. Artificial intelligence was on full display this year at Zoom Video Communications’ Zoomtopia 2024. The videoconferencing giant, led by CEO Eric Yuan, unveiled the next…
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Palo Alto Networks warned customers today to patch security vulnerabilities (with public exploit code) that can be chained to let attackers hijack PAN-OS firewalls. The flaws were found in Palo Alto Networks’ Expedition solution, which helps migrate configurations from other Checkpoint, Cisco, or supported vendors. They can be exploited to access sensitive data, such as…
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Oct 09, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Threat Detection Google on Wednesday announced a new partnership with the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA) and DNS Research Federation (DNS RF) to combat online scams. The initiative, which has been codenamed the Global Signal Exchange (GSE), is designed to create real-time insights into scams, fraud, and other forms of cybercrime…
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The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August were carjacked a week later — while out house-hunting in a brand new Lamborghini. Prosecutors say the couple was beaten and briefly kidnapped by six young men who traveled from Florida as part of a…
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Mozilla has issued an emergency security update for the Firefox browser to address a critical use-after-free vulnerability that is currently exploited in attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9680, and discovered by ESET researcher Damien Schaeffer, is a use-after-free in Animation timelines. This type of flaw occurs when memory that has been freed is still used…
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‘Think about a Zoom meeting and identifying the people and making sure that the system understands when the last conversation we had was. All those things can come into play by this integration. We’re making sure that our partners can build on top of the Now Assist platform, and we feel this integration makes both…
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Longtime channel leader Dave Guzzi is taking over as Intel’s global channel chief after a short stint by his predecessor, and the semiconductor plans to introduce a new regional engagement model for partners among other changes coming in 2025, Intel exclusively tells CRN. Intel has appointed a new global channel chief for a second time…
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Microsoft has fixed a known issue that was causing Word to delete some Windows users’ documents instead of saving them. On affected systems, locally saved files were deleted after saving because of this Word bug issue if their filenames included the # symbol or had a capitalized filename extension, such as .DOCX or .RTF. This…
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