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Across the channel’s vendors and distributors, these 100 individuals are helping craft the programs and processes to ensure their company’s partners succeed. Putting the right resources in place for solution provider partners, beefing up programs or crafting new ones to help them succeed—these are the individuals across the industry’s vendors and distributors who make things…
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The news of Apollo Global Management’s interest arrived after mobile chip giant Qualcomm approached Intel in recent days about potentially acquiring the chipmaker. Intel has reportedly received an investment offer for up to $5 billion from alternative asset management firm Apollo Global Management. Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg on Sunday reported that Apollo reached out to…
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Sep 23, 2024The Hacker NewsPassword Management / Data Breach Password resets can be frustrating for end users. Nobody likes being interrupted by the ‘time to change your password’ notification – and they like it even less when the new passwords they create are rejected by their organization’s password policy. IT teams share the pain, with…
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Sep 23, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Cyber Threat Hold on tight, folks, because last week’s cybersecurity landscape was a rollercoaster! We witnessed everything from North Korean hackers dangling “dream jobs” to expose a new malware, to a surprising twist in the Apple vs. NSO Group saga. Even the seemingly mundane world of domain names and cloud…
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Sep 23, 2024Ravie LakshmananEncryption / Data Protection Popular social messaging platform Discord has announced that it’s rolling out a new custom end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) protocol to secure audio and video calls. The protocol has been dubbed DAVE, short for Discord’s audio and video end-to-end encryption (“E2EE A/V”). As part of the change introduced last week,…
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Sep 23, 2024Ravie LakshmananIoT Security / Vulnerability A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Microchip Advanced Software Framework (ASF) that, if successfully exploited, could lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7490, carries a CVSS score of 9.5 out of a maximum of 10.0. It has been described as a stack-based…
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Sep 23, 2024Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Supply Chain Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed using poisoned Python packages as a way to deliver a new malware called PondRAT as part of an ongoing campaign. PondRAT, according to new findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, is assessed to be a lighter…
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Sep 23, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware A suspected advanced persistent threat (APT) originating from China targeted a government organization in Taiwan, and possibly other countries in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, by exploiting a recently patched critical security flaw impacting OSGeo GeoServer GeoTools. The intrusion activity, which was detected by Trend Micro in July 2024,…
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According to IBM’s 2024 Data Breach Report, the financial toll of data exfiltration extortion has surged, with the average cost now reaching $5.21 million per incident. This alarming trend highlights the growing sophistication of cybercriminals and the increasing financial risks organizations face when sensitive data is compromised. As data breaches continue to escalate, businesses must…
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