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Amazon has seen massive adoption of passkeys since the company quietly rolled them out a year ago, announcing today that over 175 million customers use the security feature. “Today, we’re excited to share that more than 175 million customers have enabled passkeys on their Amazon accounts, allowing them to sign in six-times faster than they…
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The Finnish Customs office took down the website and seized the servers for the darknet marketplace ‘Sipulitie’ where criminals sold illegal narcotics anonymously. The agency’s announcement earlier today says that the site catered to both Finnish and English-speaking users, and that its operator claimed a turnover of 1.3 million Euros (approximately $1.42 million). The operation was possible…
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In the facing of growing competition from Arm-based chip designers, the rival CPU companies say several tech giants—including Microsoft, Dell Technologies, Lenovo and HP Inc.—are joining their new advisory group to ‘shape the future of x86 and foster developer innovation.’ Intel and AMD said several tech giants are backing their new effort to expand the…
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‘We’re going to have a console that’s common for both and have a very rich roadmap for both products so customers on both sides will get innovation. But the powerhouse of innovation builds on what Cohesity brings to the picture. That’s why the new company, which is going to be called Cohesity, is going to…
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A tool for red-team operations called EDRSilencer has been observed in malicious incidents attempting to identify security tools and mute their alerts to management consoles. Researchers at cybersecurity company Trend Micro say that attackers are trying to integrate EDRSilencer in attacks to evade detection. “Our internal telemetry showed threat actors attempting to integrate EDRSilencer in their…
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When it comes to the channel, ‘I think even our relationships with our partners are stronger because of this,’ Kurtz says during a CRN interview Tuesday. The massive global outage in July caused by a CrowdStrike update has ultimately “helped transform” the company, which should put the cybersecurity vendor in an even better position to…
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‘We’ve seen no shortage of consolidation in the MSP market,’ says Mike Cromwell, managing partner, sales and marketing for Netrio. ‘What excites us is the opportunity to do this right, to grow smartly, enhance our customer experience and take advantage of the market’s growing demand for MSP services.’ Texas-based MSP Netrio has merged with Success…
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In an interview, Kurtz also discusses the major opportunities for solution and service providers in working with GenAI-powered security. Kurtz On The Record For CrowdStrike co-founder and CEO George Kurtz, the massive IT outage caused by the cybersecurity vendor’s faulty update in July has revealed just how essential the solution and service provider community really…
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Even after the IPO, Platinum Equity will still control Ingram Micro with a stake of about 90 percent, according to regulatory filings. Ingram Micro has set the terms for its initial public offering, targeting a valuation north of $5 billion with prices expected to be $20 to $23 a share. The Irvine, Calif.-based IT distributor…
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Oct 15, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Financial Fraud New variants of an Android banking trojan called TrickMo have been found to harbor previously undocumented features to steal a device’s unlock pattern or PIN. “This new addition enables the threat actor to operate on the device even while it is locked,” Zimperium security researcher Aazim Yaswant…
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