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Apple has released the iOS 18.1 Beta to developers, allowing them to test some of its upcoming AI-powered Apple Intelligence features before they are released for testing in the public previews. Apple Intelligence was first unveiled at the company’s 2024 Worldwide Developer Conference, revealing Apple’s AI strategy for upcoming devices. The new AI platform introduces a…

Three individuals who orchestrated a massive software pirating operation involving the sale of Avaya business telephone system software licenses worth over $88,000,000 have been sentenced to prison. The three men, Raymond Bradley “Brad” Pearce, Dusti O. Pearce, and Jason M. Hines, were also ordered to forfeit large amounts of money as part of their sentencing,…

The ability to drive innovation for technology products, solutions and services is the hallmark of CRN’s Top 25 Innovators of 2024 list. In an increasingly commoditized product world, innovation is key for businesses looking to differentiate themselves. But innovation is not just building a better widget. Done right, innovation in the IT business can be…

Microsoft warned today that ransomware gangs are actively exploiting a VMware ESXi authentication bypass vulnerability in attacks. Tracked as CVE-2024-37085, this medium-severity security flaw was discovered by Microsoft security researchers Edan Zwick, Danielle Kuznets Nohi, and Meitar Pinto and fixed with the release of ESXi 8.0 U3 on June 25. The bug enables attackers to…

HSA provider HealthEquity has determined that a cybersecurity incident disclosed earlier this month has compromised the information of 4,300,000 people. HealthEquity, one of the largest HSA custodians in the U.S., specializes in providing health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), and 401(k) retirement plans. In a Form 8-K filing submitted…

Here we present the CRN Top 100 Executives of 2024 list, the men and women who are setting the pace for the rest of the IT industry. CRN’s annual Top 100 Executives list honors the channel’s forward-thinking leaders. This year’s No. 1 Most Influential Executive, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, is putting the pedal…

A massive phishing campaign dubbed “EchoSpoofing” exploited now-fixed, weak permissions in Proofpoint’s email protection service to dispatch millions of spoofed emails impersonating big entities like Disney, Nike, IBM, and Coca-Cola, to target Fortune 100 companies. The campaign started in January 2024, disseminating an average of 3 million spoofed emails daily and reaching a peak of 14…

Threat actors are exploiting a misconfiguration in Selenium Grid, a popular web app testing framework, to deploy a modified XMRig tool for mining Monero cryptocurrency. Selenium Grid is open-source and enables developers to automate testing across multiple machines and browsers. It is used in cloud environments and it has more than 100 million pulls on Docker Hub. The tests…

A security issue in the latest version of WhatsApp for Windows allows sending Python and PHP attachments that are executed without any warning when the recipient opens them. For the attack to be successful, Python needs to be installed, a prerequisite that may limit the targets to software developers, researchers, and power users. The problem…