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With the Series E financing round the company achieves “unicorn” status with a $1.6 billion valuation as data-intensive AI and generative AI applications boost demand for the company’s software. Data management platform developer WekaIO has raised $140 million in an oversubscribed Series E round of funding that boosts the company’s valuation to $1.6 billion, the…
Read MoreApply appropriate updates provided by Google to vulnerable systems immediately after appropriate testing. (M1051: Update Software) Safeguard 7.1: Establish and Maintain a Vulnerability Management Process: Establish and maintain a documented vulnerability management process for enterprise assets. Review and update documentation annually, or when significant enterprise changes occur that could impact this Safeguard. Safeguard 7.4: Perform…
Read MoreMS-ISAC ADVISORY NUMBER: 2024-057 DATE(S) ISSUED: 05/15/2024 OVERVIEW: A vulnerability has been discovered in SolarWinds Access Rights Manager that could allow for privilege escalation. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow for privilege escalation in the context of the affected service account. Depending on the privileges associated with the service account, an attacker could then…
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In addition to QakBot, the Kaspersky researchers have seen other payloads deployed with the exploit for the new CVE-2024-30051 vulnerability, including the Cobalt Strike beacon. As a result, Kaspersky has concluded that the exploit is currently known and being used by multiple groups. It’s worth noting that CVE-2024-30051 cannot be used to gain initial access.…
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Remember when a US mother was accused of distributing explicit deepfake photos and videos to try to get her teenage daughter’s cheerleading rivals kicked off the team? Well, there has been a surprising development. And learn how cybercriminals have been stealing boomers’ one-time-passcodes via a secretive online service. All this and more is discussed in…
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Google has released a new emergency Chrome security update to address the third zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks within a week. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2024-4947 exists in the wild,” the search giant said in a security advisory published on Wednesday. The company fixed the zero-day flaw with the release of 125.0.6422.60/.61…
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Cisco is “taking the next step” in making its 40-year-old GTM engine “one of most sophisticated and extensive,” Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said in a blog post. Cisco has moved Gary Steele from the role of executive vice president and general manager of newly acquired cybersecurity subsidiary Splunk to a new role as president of…
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‘Now we’re several quarters in, momentum is continuing to build and we’re super happy with how it’s going,’ Michael Dell, Dell Technologies founder, chairman and CEO, told CRN. Dell Technologies’ Partner First Strategy for Storage is winning hearts and minds in the channel as the global leader in data storage now shares those sales with…
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Creating a world that is safer and more secure is core to our vision at Palo Alto Networks, but this only can be achieved if we’re collectively making the internet, as a whole, safer. To do this requires more widespread awareness of cyber threats and information sharing, and a newly proposed cyber incident reporting rule…
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A source confirms to CRN key details of a report stating that Intel has started to sunset its first-gen Max Series GPU so that the semiconductor giant can focus on selling its Gaudi accelerator chips and developing the next-gen Falcon Shores GPU. Intel is sunsetting its first-generation Max Series GPU, previously code-named Ponte Vecchio, to…
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