Category: Viral
The company has become one of the few pure-play cybersecurity vendors to join the benchmark index. CrowdStrike shares surged Monday after the cybersecurity giant was added to the S&P 500 index. As of this writing Monday morning, CrowdStrike’s stock price was up 8 percent to $376.96 a share. [Related: Analysis: CrowdStrike Strikes Back In Platform,…
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Jun 10, 2024NewsroomCloud Security / Vulnerability Microsoft is warning about the potential abuse of Azure Service Tags by malicious actors to forge requests from a trusted service and get around firewall rules, thereby allowing them to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources. “This case does highlight an inherent risk in using service tags as a…
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Jun 10, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a threat actor known as Sticky Werewolf that has been linked to cyber attacks targeting entities in Russia and Belarus. The phishing attacks were aimed at a pharmaceutical company, a Russian research institute dealing with microbiology and vaccine development, and the aviation sector,…
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Jun 08, 2024NewsroomArtificial Intelligence / Privacy Microsoft on Friday said it will disable its much-criticized artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Recall feature by default and make it an opt-in. Recall, currently in preview and coming exclusively to Copilot+ PCs on June 18, 2024, functions as an “explorable visual timeline” by capturing screenshots of what appears on users’…
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Video Ticketmaster seems to have experienced a data breach, with the ShinyHunters hacker group claiming to have exfiltrated 560 million customer data. Watch as Tony discusses the story and provides useful tips on how to protect people’s data. 07 Jun 2024 Ticketmaster has reportedly been breached by a hacker group known as ShinyHunters, who claim…
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After privacy and security experts voiced concerns about Recall – an exclusive, AI-driven search feature in Microsoft’s upcoming Copilot+ PCs – the Windows giant says it will turn off the feature by default, require Windows Hello authentication to use it and add ‘additional layers of data protection.’ Microsoft said it’s improving privacy and security safeguards…
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‘If you listen to really smart people around the globe, they’ll tell you that [AI] is one of those technologies that is actually going to live up to the hype. And so the $1 billion global AI investment fund we just announced this week, that’s just the start for us, frankly,’ Cisco Executive Vice President…
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With Nvidia, Intel and AMD signaling that the semiconductor industry is entering a new era of hyperdrive, Computex 2024 was an event not to miss for channel partners who are building businesses around next-generation PCs and data centers, especially when it comes to AI. The future of AI computing was on full display at this…
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Researchers disclose a critical severity vulnerability affecting PHP installations and provide proof-of-concept exploit code, which could lead to remote code execution. Background On June 6, maintainers of PHP released updates to address a critical vulnerability affecting installations where PHP is used in CGI mode. As part of a coordinated release, researchers at DEVCORE published a…
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Jun 07, 2024The Hacker NewsCyber Hygiene / Webinar 2023 was a year of unprecedented cyberattacks. Ransomware crippled businesses, DDoS attacks disrupted critical services, and data breaches exposed millions of sensitive records. The cost of these attacks? Astronomical. The damage to reputations? Irreparable. But here’s the shocking truth: many of these attacks could have been prevented…
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