LinkedIn received a €310 million fine from the Irish Data Protection Commission for violating European Union’s law related to the processing of personal data for behavioral analysis and targeted advertising. The penalty follows an inquiry into the lawfulness, fairness, and transparency of LinkedIn’s data processing, which started from a complaint several years ago from French non-profit org La Quadrature…
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Cisco fixed a denial of service flaw in its Cisco ASA and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software, which was discovered during large-scale brute force attacks against Cisco VPN devices in April. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2024-20481 and impacts all versions of Cisco ASA and Cisco FTD up until the latest versions of the software. “A vulnerability in…
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‘We’ve got very good traction in our GenAI products as well as in our automation suite and we can look at our pipelines and expect that those will be maintained,’ IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna said. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the last quarter saw “good traction” in Big Blue’s enterprise AI business, growing…
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Oct 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an advanced version of the Qilin ransomware sporting increased sophistication and tactics to evade detection. The new variant is being tracked by cybersecurity firm Halcyon under the moniker Qilin.B. “Notably, Qilin.B now supports AES-256-CTR encryption for systems with AESNI capabilities, while still retaining Chacha20 for…
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‘Now they can focus on managing the business rather than getting ready for a public offering. I expect them to continue supporting MSPs even better than before,’ says Mark Essayian, president of Lake Forrest, Calif.-based KME Systems. Shares of Ingram Micro soared by as much as 15 percent in trading Thursday after once again going…
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A suspected nation-state campaign has been targeting FortiManager customers — likely including MSPs — since at least late June, according to security researchers. The attacks exploiting a critical-severity vulnerability in Fortinet FortiManager are likely targeting MSPs in a nation-state espionage campaign, according to a security researcher. In a post Tuesday, well-known researcher Kevin Beaumont noted…
Read MoreCisco released its October 2024 Semiannual Cisco ASA, FMC, and FTD Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication to address vulnerabilities in Cisco ASA, FMC, and FTD. A cyber threat actor could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following advisory and apply the…
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ESET researchers have discovered new Rust-based tooling leading to the deployment of Embargo ransomware. Embargo is a relatively new player in the ransomware scene, first observed by ESET in June 2024. The new toolkit consists of a loader and an EDR killer, named MDeployer and MS4Killer respectively by ESET. MS4Killer is particularly noteworthy as it…
Read MoreCISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-20481 Cisco ASA and FTD Denial-of-Service Vulnerability CVE-2024-37383 RoundCube Webmail Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) 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…
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‘With Amit [Zavery], we found the dream innovator to captivate the market with a compelling vision for ServiceNow as the AI platform for business transformation,’ says ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott about hiring its new president, chief product officer and chief operating officer. Google Cloud’s former general manager of cloud operations and business platform, Amit Zavery,…
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