Consultancy specialist Thoughtworks is being taken private for $1.7 billion, as its new restructuring plan now will “impact” hundreds of employees. Top Amazon Web Services and Google partner Thoughtworks is being taken private by Apax Partners in a deal worth $1.75 billion as the IT consultancy also unveiled a new plan that will impact hundreds…
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‘We are combining teams and prioritizing where we invest across the company. We continually evolve our business, so we’re set up to deliver the best innovation, value and service to our customers and partners,’ Dell Technologies said in a statement. Dell Technologies is cutting some sales jobs and adding others, as it reorganizes its business…
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South Korea’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) warns that state-backed DPRK hackers hijacked flaws in a VPN’s software update to deploy malware and breach networks. The advisory connects this activity with a nationwide industrial factories modernization project Kim Jong-un, the North Korean president, announced in January 2023, believing the hackers are looking to steal trade…
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Electronic manufacturing services provider Keytronic has revealed that it suffered losses of over $17 million due to a May ransomware attack. The American technology company started as an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) of keyboards and mice in 1969 but has since become one of the largest manufacturers of printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) worldwide, with facilities in the United…
Read MoreIn an era of rapidly evolving Artificial Intelligence/Large Language Model (AI/LLM) technologies, cybersecurity practitioners face significant challenges in monitoring unauthorized AI solutions, detecting AI vulnerabilities, and identifying unexpected AI/LLM development. Tenable Security Center leverages advanced detection technologies – agents, passive network monitoring, dynamic application security testing, and distributed scan engines – to surface AI/LLM software,…
Read MoreCISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2018-0824 Microsoft COM for Windows Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise. Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant…
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A previously undocumented Android malware named ‘LightSpy’ has been discovered targeting Russian users, posing on phones as an Alipay app or a system service to evade detection. Analysis shows that LianSpy has been actively targeting Android users since July 2021, but its extensive stealth capabilities helped it remain undetected for over three years. Kaspersky researchers…
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Here’s a head-to-head comparison of AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud’s recent financial earnings results for second-quarter 2024, including revenue, sales growth, cloud market share and operating income. The results are in for the three largest cloud computing companies on the planet with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud each recently reporting their financial…
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Register today for mWISE™, the unique cybersecurity conference from Mandiant, now part of Google Cloud. Built by practitioners for practitioners, mWISE runs from September 18 – 19, 2024 in Denver, Colorado. There are just a few days left to get $300 off the standard conference price at mWISE—and the conference itself is just six weeks…
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Here are the top 25 companies on this year’s CRN Fast Growth 150 list, which ranks solution providers with gross annual sales of at least $1 million by their two-year growth rate. Overachievers These are challenging times for solution providers as they navigate both ongoing economic uncertainty and a rapidly changing technology landscape as artificial…
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