A hacker responsible for stealing 119,754 Bitcoin in a 2016 hack on the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to five years in prison by U.S. authorities. The man, Ilya Lichtenstein, was arrested in February 2022 in Manhattan following a lengthy investigation led by the IRS, HSI, and the FBI, which managed to recover roughly 80% of the…
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IT systems are moving beyond the data center with edge computing and Internet of Things devices playing an increasingly important role in distributed data collection remote computing. As part of CRN’s Stellar Startups for 2024, here are two edge computing/IoT startups, founded in 2018 or later, that solution providers should be aware of. Spread Out!…
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For the week ending Nov. 15, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel, including Presidio, Secuvy, CoreWeave, SAS and Snyk. The Week Ending Nov. 15 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is solution provider superstar Presidio for a strategic acquisition that will expand its expertise and…
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Microsoft has paused the November 2024 Exchange security updates released during this month’s Patch Tuesday because of email delivery issues on servers using custom mail flow rules. The company announced it pulled the updates from Windows Update and the Download Center following widespread reports from admins saying that email had stopped flowing altogether. This issue…
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Palo Alto Networks is warning that a critical zero-day vulnerability on Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) management interfaces, currently tracked as ‘PAN-SA-2024-0015,’ is actively being exploited in attacks. The flaw was originally disclosed on November 8, 2024, with Palo Alto Networks warning customers to restrict access to their next-generation firewalls because of a “potential” remote code execution (RCE)…
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Microsoft has shut down the Windows 10 Beta Channel and will move all enrolled Windows Insiders to the Release Preview Channel. This comes after the company reopened the Windows 10 beta channel in early June, releasing the first Beta build three years after the last such build was rolled out to Windows 10 Insiders in…
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Check out the CVEs attackers targeted the most last year, along with mitigation tips. Plus, a new guide says AI system audits must go beyond check-box compliance. Meanwhile, a report foresees stronger AI use by defenders and hackers in 2025. And get the latest on cloud security, SMBs’ MFA use and the CIS Benchmarks. Dive…
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The healthcare industry has undergone significant transformation with the emergence of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices. These devices ranging from wearable monitors to network imaging systems collect and process vast amounts of sensitive medical data based on which they make critical decisions about patients’ health. But at the same time, they also raise…
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‘Price is a factor, but it’s really more like taking the whole package, which is the pricing, the known stagnation, the changes to support all of that, and sliding that across the table to your customer with whom you might have taken decades to develop trust,’ Nutanix’s Dave Gwyn tells CRN. The reverberations that started…
Read MoreMicrosoft has shut down the Windows 10 Beta Channel and will move all enrolled Windows Insiders to the Release Preview Channel. This comes after the company reopened the Windows 10 beta channel in early June, releasing the first Beta build three years after the last such build was rolled out to Windows 10 Insiders in…
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