Kaspersky is offering free security products for six months and tips for staying safe as a parting gift to consumers in the United States. The company decided to close its business and lay off employees in the U.S. after the U.S. government added Kaspersky to the Entity List, a catalog of “foreign individuals, companies, and…
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CISA is warning that a critical GeoServer GeoTools remote code execution flaw tracked as CVE-2024-36401 is being actively exploited in attacks. GeoServer is an open-source server that allows users to share, process, and modify geospatial data. On June 30th, GeoServer disclosed a critical 9.8 severity remote code execution vulnerability in its GeoTools plugin caused by…
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Oracle addresses 175 CVEs in its third quarterly update of 2024 with 386 patches, including 26 critical updates. Background On July 16, Oracle released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for July 2024, the third quarterly update of the year. This CPU contains fixes for 175 CVEs in 386 security updates across 29 Oracle product families.…
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As Tim Crawford, founder of research and advisory firm Avoa, told CSO’s David Strom: “You have to move quickly, don’t wait or take a chance to get close to that October deadline, because those non-updated systems will become fully vulnerable, and hackers are lying in wait for you.” Kaspersky Lab’s software has previously been available…
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“What they have had in place today—the technology, the chips, the platforms, the software, the integrated platform—and what they’re building, is quite impressive to say the least. That’s creating an incredible opportunity for Nvidia, but also Nvidia partners,” says WWT CEO Jim Kavanaugh. Jim Kavanaugh, the longtime CEO and technology guru of $20 billion IT…
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A threat actor has released over 15 million email addresses associated with Trello accounts that were collected using an unsecured API in January. Trello is an online project management tool owned by Atlassian. Businesses commonly use it to organize data and tasks into boards, cards, and lists. In January, BleepingComputer reported that a threat actor known…
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In the current geopolitical environment, it ’makes it incumbent on us to make sure that we’re choosing the right partners,’ one MSP executive tells CRN. In the current geopolitical environment, the planned exit of Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky from the U.S. market is a reminder of why it’s more important than ever for service providers…
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Microsoft will introduce checkpoint cumulative updates starting in late 2024 for systems running devices running Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11, version 24H2 or later. This new type of update will deliver security fixes and new features via smaller, incremental differentials that include only changes added since the previous checkpoint cumulative update. The goal is…
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‘The company has carefully examined and evaluated the impact of the U.S. legal requirements and made this sad and difficult decision as business opportunities in the country are no longer viable,’ says the Moscow-based antivirus software company. Russian cybersecurity giant Kaspersky confirmed Tuesday that it will be exiting the U.S. market and ceasing operations in…
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In episode seven of The AI Fix, Alexa goes wild, Mark learns how to hang a towel on a Peloton for only $39.90 a month, Graham puts the news items in the wrong order, and a strawberry uses the internet. Graham explains to Mark what bats argue about, our hosts ponder whether AI should always…
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