‘This incident shows clearly that Windows must prioritize change and innovation in the area of end-to-end resilience,’ a Microsoft executive says in a blog. Microsoft acknowledged that it must “prioritize change and innovation” for Windows following the massive CrowdStrike-caused outage to the operating system. The outage, which began July 19 and had lingering impacts for…
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CRN breaks down the 25 Most Influential Executives of 2024 who are driving sales, transforming their business and paving the way for the future. The impact of today’s most influential tech executives is extending beyond the IT world and into every industry. From Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang pushing to make AI accessible…
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Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, CRN’s No. 1 Most Influential Executive, is earning accolades from partners as he keeps AI at the forefront of the company’s mission and steers investments and innovation around Copilot, GenAI and more. When World Wide Technology’s Jim Kavanaugh attended Microsoft’s high-profile CEO Summit this spring, one major thing stood…
Read MoreHere 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…
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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…
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An unknown threat actor has been linked to a massive scam campaign that exploited an email routing misconfiguration in email security vendor Proofpoint’s defenses to send millions of messages spoofing various legitimate companies. “These emails echoed from official Proofpoint email relays with authenticated SPF and DKIM signatures, thus bypassing major security protections — all to…
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Tenable®, the Exposure Management company, today announced Liv Matan, senior cloud security researcher for Tenable, will give presentations at Black Hat USA 2024, DEF CON 32 Cloud Village and BSides Las Vegas 2024, taking place from August 6 – 11, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. At Black Hat USA, Matan will give an in-depth presentation on the…
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Searchable Encryption has long been a mystery. An oxymoron. An unattainable dream of cybersecurity professionals everywhere. Organizations know they must encrypt their most valuable, sensitive data to prevent data theft and breaches. They also understand that organizational data exists to be used. To be searched, viewed, and modified to keep businesses running. Unfortunately, our Network…
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Other vendors aren’t immune It would be naive to think of a world free of CrowdStrike-like scenarios, especially in the present day of interconnectivity and dependency. CrowdStrike, incidentally, happened to be the one with the slip-up but it could have been anyone, several believe. “It’s important to note that this is not a security failure,”…
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Ideally, such privileged access should be governed stringently, ensuring adequately tested, digitally signed software with limited privileges is used,” Varkey added. “It is also important for the OS vendor to be transparent to its partners on their potential vulnerabilities and risks, which could impact the stability of the Kernel.” However, the CrowdStrike incident, with its…
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