Author: nlqip

Friday Squid Blogging: Dana Squid Attacking Camera Fantastic footage of a Dana squid attacking a camera at a depth of about a kilometer. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Tags: squid, video Posted…

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Microsoft says the Cortana, Tips, and WordPad applications will be automatically removed on systems upgraded to the upcoming Windows 11 24H2 release. This was shared in a Thursday blog announcing that Windows 11, version 24H2 (Build 26100.712) is now available for Insiders in the Release Preview Channel. The company removed the Cortana standalone app from…

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After over a 24-hour outage, Microsoft’s Bing, Copilot, and Copilot in Windows services are back online worldwide, with no information released as to what caused the problem. The massive outage began around 3 AM EST on Thursday and mainly affected users in Asia and Europe, making it impossible for many to access these services. During the outage, Bing.com…

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While Palo Alto Networks XSIAM has shown early promise in the SIEM market, the deal with IBM is poised to give the platform the accelerant that Nikesh Arora has been looking for. Considering that SIEM is a market that’s existed for decades, I think it’s fair to say Palo Alto Networks has gotten off to…

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Channel Chief Kate Woodley takes a deep dive with CRN on IBM’s partner strategy, its new MSP program and why IBM is pushing the channel to become Palo Alto Networks partners following the sale of QRadar. Kate Woolley, IBM’s global channel chief, sat down with CRN at IBM Think 2024 to discuss the company’s upcoming…

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‘Enterprise clients usually have some level of company-wide program as far as sustainability goes. Toner recycling programs have been offered to all of our clients for many years. We continue to do so. If they wish to take advantage of it, it’s quite simple for us to start up with them. All of our vendors…

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May 24, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Threat Intelligence The MITRE Corporation has revealed that the cyber attack targeting the not-for-profit company towards late December 2023 by exploiting zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) involved the actor creating rogue virtual machines (VMs) within its VMware environment. “The adversary created their own rogue VMs within the VMware…

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HPE will sell 30 percent of its stake in China-based H3C for $2.1 billion, with the option of selling its remaining 19 percent share, HPE said in a regulatory filing today. Hewlett Packard Enterprise will sell 30 percent of its shares of H3C to Chinese IT provider Unisplendour for approximately $2.1 billion, HPE said in…

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Some of the largest drug companies in the world have disclosed data breaches due to a February 2024 cyberattack at Cencora, whom they partner with for pharmaceutical and business services. Cencora, formerly AmerisourceBergen, is a pharmaceutical services provider specializing in drug distribution, specialty pharmacy, consulting, and clinical trial support. The Pennsylvania-based firm, with a presence…

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A new ransomware strain called ShrinkLocker creates a new boot partition to encrypt corporate systems using Windows BitLocker. ShrinkLocker, named so because it creates the boot volume by shrinking available non-boot partitions, has been used to target a government entity and companies in the vaccine and manufacturing sectors. Creating new boot volumes Ransomware using BitLocker…

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