Category: Viral
At Splunk .conf24, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and Go-to-Market President Gary Steele spoke to Splunk customers about the benefits of integrating the companies’ security and observability products and highlighted the opportunities those combinations will create for partners. Cisco Systems and Splunk executives are putting on a full-court press at Splunk .conf24 this week to tout…
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Jun 12, 2024NewsroomRansomware / Endpoint Security Threat actors linked to the Black Basta ransomware may have exploited a recently disclosed privilege escalation flaw in the Microsoft Windows Error Reporting Service as zero-day, according to new findings from Symantec. The security flaw in question is CVE-2024-26169 (CVSS score: 7.8), an elevation of privilege bug in the…
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Jun 12, 2024Newsroom State-sponsored threat actors backed by China gained access to 20,000 Fortinet FortiGate systems worldwide by exploiting a known critical security flaw between 2022 and 2023, indicating that the operation had a broader impact than previously known. “The state actor behind this campaign was already aware of this vulnerability in FortiGate systems at…
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Jun 12, 2024NewsroomPatch Tuesday / Vulnerability Microsoft has released security updates to address 51 flaws as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for June 2024. Of the 51 vulnerabilities, one is rated Critical and 50 are rated Important. This is in addition to 17 vulnerabilities resolved in the Chromium-based Edge browser over the past month.…
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With the new “Build with Confluent” program, the company looks to help systems integrators develop use-case solutions around the Confluent data streaming platform and market those solutions to potential customers. Expanding on its recent initiatives to work with the channel, Confluent today launched the Build with Confluent program through which the company is providing technical…
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The standalone version of Securonix’s trailblazing UEBA (user and entity behavior analytics) tool will be a major boost to partner sales opportunities, according to Channel Chief Mark Stevens. Next-generation SIEM unicorn Securonix unveiled a refreshed partner program Tuesday while also debuting a standalone version of its pioneering tool for thwarting insider threats. The revamped channel…
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‘This new round puts us in a unique position to push the frontier of AI and bring state-of-the-art technology to everyone’s hands,’ says Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch. Microsoft-backed startup Mistral AI has raised $643 million in a new funding round, which increased the company’s valuation to $6 billion. Arthur Mensch, CEO and co-founder of…
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Venture capital continues to flow to startups developing artificial intelligence and generative AI technology. Here’s a look at 10 companies that successfully raised new funding in May. Follow The Money The venture capital space continues to show signs of exiting the slump it has been in since early 2022. But while startups in such technology…
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The attacks by a China-linked hacking group involved exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability and occurred in 2022 and 2023, according to the Dutch military intelligence service. Attacks by a China-linked hacking group in 2022 and 2023 led to the compromise of at least 20,000 Fortinet FortiGate devices, according to the Dutch military intelligence service. The…
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The attack, part of an industry-wide attack targeting information stored using Snowflake, did access telemetry data in a single Snowflake data analytics workspace used by Pure Storage for customer support, but Pure Storage said no compromising customer data was accessed. All-flash and cloud storage technology developer Pure Storage Tuesday said that a third party had…
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