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Amazon CEO said that to boost innovation and collaboration, corporate workers must return to the office five days a week. Amazon will “return to being in the office the way we were before the onset of COVID,” Andy Jassy said today in a memo to employees. Amazon is mandating corporate workers return to the office…
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‘CloudImposer could have allowed attackers to conduct a massive supply chain attack by compromising the Google Cloud Platform’s Cloud Composer service for orchestrating software pipelines,’ says Tenable security researcher Liv Matan. Google has patched a critical security flaw inside its Google Cloud Platform Composer tool that could have enabled hackers to achieve remote execution on…
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Unisys, Fusion Connect, Impact Networking, Tenable, Confluent and Thales are among the vendors to list open positions for channel-related roles. This month, Unisys, Fusion Connect and Impact Networking are among the solution providers to list open positions while Tenable, Confluent and Thales are among the vendors to list open positions for channel-related roles. CRN has…
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Tenable Research discovered a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that is now fixed and that we dubbed CloudImposer. The vulnerability could have allowed an attacker to hijack an internal software dependency that Google pre-installs on each Google Cloud Composer pipeline-orchestration tool. Tenable Research also found risky guidance in GCP documentation…
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Critical infrastructure operators must beware of Russian military hacking groups. Plus, cyber scammers are having a field day with crypto fraud. Meanwhile, AI and cloud vendors face stricter reporting regulations in the U.S. And get the latest on AI-model risk management and on cybersecurity understaffing! Dive into six things that are top of mind for…
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Microsoft seeks ‘to raise the bar on our operational excellence,’ CEO and Chairman Satya Nadella said in a statement. Microsoft has a new chief operating officer and executive vice president tasked with helping the vendor “drive continuous business process improvement across all our organizations and accelerate our company-wide AI transformation, increasing value to customers and…
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The outage Thursday morning had prevented some AT&T users from accessing Microsoft 365 and Azure services. AT&T said that “connections are operating normally” as of mid-morning Thursday, EDT, following reports that Microsoft 365 and Azure services were inaccessible for AT&T users earlier in the morning. Microsoft also confirmed that the issues that caused the outage…
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“People enjoy a narrative where they say like, ‘How are you possibly doing your own chips when you have other partners who have their other chips?’ And it turns out, customers like choice,” said AWS CEO Matt Garman. Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman is bullish about his company’s future in homemade silicon chips as…
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TD Synnex, Skyhigh Security, Leidos, Microsoft, NetApp and Salesforce were among the tech companies making key executive hires and moves in August 2024. A chief information security officer at TD Synnex. A chief technology officer at Skyhigh Security. And a chief data officer at Leidos. Alicia Lynch, formerly with Cognizant; Steve Tait, formerly with Snow…
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With patches out for three years, attackers have set their sights on a pair of vulnerabilities affecting DrayTek VigorConnect. Background In November 2021, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) launched its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, an effort to focus on vulnerabilities known to have been exploited and provide defenders with an actionable list…
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