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Microsoft warns that Chinese threat actors use the Quad7 botnet, compromised of hacked SOHO routers, to steal credentials in password-spray attacks. Quad7, also known as CovertNetwork-1658 or xlogin, is a botnet first discovered by security researcher Gi7w0rm that consists of compromised SOHO routers. Later reports by Sekoia and Team Cymru reported that the threat actors are targeting…
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Microsoft is again delaying the rollout of its AI-powered Windows Recall feature after announcing in August that it will be available for Insiders with Copilot+ PCs in October. This comes after the company was forced to drop its plans to release the feature in public preview on June 19, when the new Copilot+ AI PCs…
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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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Microsoft did not specify responsibilities Parikh will be assuming as a member of the senior leadership team at the tech giant. Microsoft disclosed Thursday that former Lacework CEO Jay Parikh will join the company in an unspecified senior executive role. In a note to Microsoft employees from CEO Satya Nadella, posted online by the company,…
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Hackers are attempting to exploit two zero-day vulnerabilities in PTZOptics pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) live streaming cameras used in industrial, healthcare, business conferences, government, and courtroom settings. In April 2024, GreyNoise discovered CVE-2024-8956 and CVE-2024-8957 after its AI-powered threat detection tool, Sift, detected unusual activity on its honeypot network that did not match any known threats. Upon examination of…
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Microsoft announced today that Windows 10 home users can delay the switch to Windows 11 for one more year if they’re willing to pay $30 for Extended Security Updates (ESU). The company first announced that Windows 10 home users can buy Extended Security Updates in December 2023, but this is the first time that Microsoft put a…
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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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