Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says in a memo sent to staff that ‘if you’re faced with the tradeoff between security and another priority, your answer is clear: Do security.’ In a memo sent to employees, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella responded to a recent scathing federal report on the company’s security practices by urging staff to…
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Google has rolled back a recent release of its reCaptcha captcha script after a bug caused the service to no longer work on Firefox for Windows. Yesterday, BleepingComputer received multiple reports that reCaptcha stopped working in the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, with the issues also reported on Twitter and Reddit. BleepingComputer tested reCaptcha on our devices and confirmed…
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For the week ending May 3, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Insight Enterprises, D&H Distributing, MongoDB, Intel and Sterling. The Week Ending May 3 Topping this week’s Came to Win is solution provider heavyweight Insight Enterprises for a strategic acquisition that adds ServiceNow expertise…
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NATO and the European Union, with international partners, formally condemned a long-term cyber espionage campaign against European countries conducted by the Russian threat group APT28. Germany said on Friday that the Russian threat group was behind an attack against the Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Party, compromising many email accounts using a Microsoft Outlook…
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Microsoft announced that Windows users can now log into their Microsoft consumer accounts using a passkey, allowing users to authenticate using password-less methods such as Windows Hello, FIDO2 security keys, biometric data (facial scans or fingerprints), or device PINs. Microsoft “consumer accounts” refer to personal accounts for accessing Microsoft services and products such as Windows,…
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“I’ve been trying to take everything that’s been negative about this and … turn it into some sort of positive,” Robert Cioffi said in an interview. Robert Cioffi, chief technology officer and co-founder of Progressive Computing, one of the MSPs hit in the 2021 Kaseya ransomware attack, traveled about 1,500 miles from his home in…
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May 03, 2024NewsroomCloud Security / Threat Intelligence Threat actors have been increasingly weaponizing Microsoft Graph API for malicious purposes with the aim of evading detection. This is done to “facilitate communications with command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure hosted on Microsoft cloud services,” the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, said in a report shared with The…
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May 03, 2024The Hacker NewsLive Webinar / Server Security In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the threat of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks looms more significant than ever. As these cyber threats grow in sophistication, understanding and countering them becomes crucial for any business seeking to protect its online presence. To address this urgent…
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Verizon’s DBIR found that hackers are having a field day exploiting vulnerabilities to gain initial access. Plus, a CISA program is helping critical infrastructure organizations prevent ransomware attacks. In addition, check out what Tenable’s got planned for RSA Conference 2024. And get the latest on the Change Healthcare breach. And much more! Dive into six…
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The advisory noted that despite approaches to avoid directory traversal vulnerabilities being readily available, their exploitation by threat actors is still on the rise, especially to impact critical services including hospital and school operations. The prevalence of such vulnerabilities is apparent through CISA’s current listing of 58 path traversal vulnerabilities in its known exploited vulnerabilities…
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