‘The company is in great shape,’ says TD Synnex CEO Rich Hume, who turns 65 in August and will retire effective September 1. ‘We’ve got a great leader in Patrick (Zammit) that’ll come to the forefront. And I’ve completed my work.’ Architected A Distribution Powerhouse TD Synnex CEO Rich Hume, the architect behind the Tech…
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Two weeks after it was struck by a ransomware attack, the software maker says that ‘substantially all’ of the car dealerships it serves are back online. CDK Global said Tuesday that “substantially all” of the car dealerships it serves are back online, two weeks after the software maker was struck by a crippling ransomware attack.…
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Cisco has released patches for several series of Nexus switches to fix a vulnerability that could allow attackers to hide the execution of bash commands on the underlying operating system. Although the flaw is rated with moderate severity because it requires administrative credentials to exploit, it has been exploited in the wild since April, showing…
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The Xbox gaming service is currently down due to a major outage, impacting customers worldwide and preventing them from signing into their accounts and playing games. According to a massive stream of user reports, the online gaming platform has been down for at least three hours, blocking them from playing cloud and offline games that require logging into an Xbox…
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‘The technical side is easy, it’s the business side that gets complicated. It’s managing employees that gets complicated, so it’s taking that as seriously as they take their technology stack,’ Strety CEO Brian Dosal tells CRN about the goal of the company’s new platform. BrightGauge founders Larry Garcia and Brian Dosal have partnered again to…
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SEC cyber incident reporting requirements: In 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted rules requiring registrants to disclose material cybersecurity incidents they experience within four days of determining their materiality and to disclose material information regarding their cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance every year. However, as the Center for Cybersecurity Law and…
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In an interview with CRN, HP commercial PC leader Guayente Sanmartin and colleague Alex Thatcher explain why Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X processors for PCs will have ‘much more success’ with business customers than previous efforts but adoption will take ‘a lot of time.’ The head of HP Inc.’s commercial PC business said Qualcomm’s latest effort…
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Google has launched kvmCTF, a new vulnerability reward program (VRP) first announced in October 2023 to improve the security of the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor that comes with $250,000 bounties for full VM escape exploits. KVM, an open-source hypervisor with over 17 years of development, is a crucial component in consumer and enterprise settings, powering…
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Recently patched vulnerabilities in a software dependency management tool used by developers of applications for Apple’s iOS and MacOS platforms, could have opened the door for attackers to insert malicious code into many of the most popular apps on those platforms. One particular security weakness in the CocoaPods dependency manager created a mechanism for hackers…
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