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A US court has found a Nigerian national guilty of charges related to a US $1.5 million business email compromise (BEC) scam and could face the rest of his life in prison as a consequence. 35-year-old Ebuka Raphael Umeti was convicted last week by a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, for operating a scheme that…
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Jun 18, 2024NewsroomNetwork Security / Vulnerability VMware has released updates to address critical flaws impacting Cloud Foundation, vCenter Server, and vSphere ESXi that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation and remote code execution. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2024-37079 & CVE-2024-37080 (CVSS scores: 9.8) – Multiple heap-overflow vulnerabilities in the implementation…
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Jun 18, 2024NewsroomMobile Security / Financial Fraud The Singapore Police Force (SPF) has announced the extradition of two men from Malaysia for their alleged involvement in a mobile malware campaign targeting citizens in the country since June 2023. The unnamed individuals, aged 26 and 47, engaged in scams that tricked unsuspecting users into downloading malicious…
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Virtusa, Redapt, Network Doctor, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Atlassian are among the companies to list open positions for channel-related roles. This month, Virtusa, Redapt and Network Doctor are among the solution providers to list open positions while Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Atlassian are among the vendors to list open positions for channel-related roles.…
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“We’re disappointed by the request from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), our lead regulator, on behalf of the European DPAs, to delay training our large language models (LLMs) using public content shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram — particularly since we incorporated regulatory feedback and the European DPAs have been informed since March,”…
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Now entering its sixth year, the CSO Hall of Fame spotlights outstanding leaders who have significantly contributed to the practice of information risk management and security. The CSO Hall of Fame honors executives who have spent at least 10 years in a CSO, CISO or other C-level security position, advancing the CSO role while demonstrating…
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For more than a decade, the CSO Awards have recognized security projects that demonstrate outstanding thought leadership and business value. The award is an acknowledged mark of cybersecurity excellence. Winners will be recognized in-person at the CSO Conference + Awards at the We-Ko-Pa Casino Resort, Fort McDowell, AZ October 21-23, 2024. Over the course of the event, attendees…
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AWS, Nvidia and Intel veteran Bratin Saha—who helped build AWS AI products like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q—has left to join DigitalOcean as its new chief product and technology officer. DigitalOcean has nabbed Amazon Web Services’ AI general manager, Bratin Saha, as its new chief product and technology officer, a move the company said will…
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Jun 17, 2024NewsroomRouter Security / Vulnerability ASUS has shipped software updates to address a critical security flaw impacting its routers that could be exploited by malicious actors to bypass authentication. Tracked as CVE-2024-3080, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. “Certain ASUS router models have authentication bypass vulnerability,…
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‘What HPE has done with Private Cloud Business Edition is make it attainable and it has opened customer’s eyes to the HPE ecosystem,’ says Champions of Change CEO Xara Tran. When Champions of Change won the first-ever HPE GreenLake Private Cloud Business Edition (PCBE) deal last year, it did a whopping 250 hours of “independent”…
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