Just one month after purchasing a data center campus in Pennsylvania for $650 million, AWS CEO Adam Selipsky says the cloud company will invest $11 billion to build a new data center campus in Indiana. Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky said the cloud company’s plan to invest $11 billion in building a new cloud…
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Extreme President and CEO Ed Meyercord and Nabil Bukhari, chief product and technology officer, speak with CRN about how AI and GenAI are shaping Extreme’s strategy, recent networking M&A activity — including the Cisco-Splunk acquisition and the pending HPE-Juniper deal — and how Extreme’s ‘One Network, One Cloud’ approach is helping the specialist stand out.…
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Apr 25, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cyber Threat The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Lazarus Group employed its time-tested fabricated job lures to deliver a new remote access trojan called Kaolin RAT. The malware could, “aside from standard RAT functionality, change the last write timestamp of a selected file and load any received DLL binary from…
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Reddit is investigating a major outage blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network’s websites and mobile apps. Users now see “502 Bad Gateway” and “Unknown server error” errors when accessing the Reddit website. Mobile users also report seeing an “Error: Choose failed Missing field ‘user_id’” error or an outage icon with the Reddit alien…
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What’s going on? A wave of cheap, crude, amateurish ransomware has been spotted on the dark web – and although it may not make as many headlines as LockBit, Rhysida, and BlackSuit, it still presents a serious threat to organizations. What’s “junk gun” ransomware? It’s a name coined by Sophos researchers for unsophisticated ransomware that…
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Over 1,400 CrushFTP servers exposed online were found vulnerable to attacks currently targeting a critical severity server-side template injection (SSTI) vulnerability previously exploited as a zero-day. While CrushFTP describes CVE-2024-4040 as a VFS sandbox escape in its managed file transfer software that enables arbitrary file reading, unauthenticated attackers can use it to gain remote code execution…
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AI, Azure and security are just some of the biggest topics expected to come up Thursday on the company’s third fiscal quarter earnings call. Updates on Microsoft’s artificial intelligence and Copilot offerings. Growth in the cloud and Azure business. And the tech giant’s position in the ever-competitive security market. These are some of the biggest…
Read MoreCISA released eight Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on April 25, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-24-116-01 Multiple Vulnerabilities in Hitachi Energy RTU500 Series ICSA-24-116-02 Hitachi Energy MACH SCM ICSA-24-116-03 Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE1808 Devices Configured with Palo Alto Networks Virtual NGFW ICSA-24-116-04 Honeywell Experion PKS,…
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The new module quantifies the risk of ransomware and data exfiltration for third-party vendors, while combining the signals with first-party and SaaS risk, Safe Security CEO Saket Modi tells CRN. Safe Security is taking a new approach to quantifying third-party cyber risk with the debut of a new tool that represents a “massive” opportunity for…
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Part 7 of CRN’s Big Data 100 takes a look at the startup companies solution providers should know in the big data arena. Big Data, Big Plans The majority of the companies on the CRN 2024 Big Data 100 are either major IT vendors like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Oracle, or younger – albeit…
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