A new vulnerability has been discovered in the R programming language that allows arbitrary code execution upon deserializing specially crafted RDS and RDX files. R is an open-source programming language that is particularly popular among statisticians and data miners who develop and use custom data analysis models, and it is also seeing increased adoption by the emerging AI/ML field.…
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‘This is a huge opportunity,’ says Sterling Senior Vice President of Partner Alliances Steve Van Ginkel. ‘We feel like we’re well positioned to help our customers operationalize their AI PC strategy and contract and procure these systems efficiently.’ Sterling, the $1.5 billion solution provider powerhouse that has invested heavily in AI solutions, is setting up…
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D&H is in the process of outfitting its 800 person sales/support team with AI PCs and rolling out a road show that aims to get 5,000 partners selling the new systems. D&H Distributing Co-President Dan Schwab said the distributor expects a “rolling thunder’ demand from partners for AI PCs. “The demand is a rolling thunder,”…
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‘D&H is making a multimillion-dollar investment to continue our history of investing ahead of the curve and looking around the corner to ensure our partners are prepared, trained and armed for the next wave of opportunity,’ says D&H Co-President Dan Schwab. D&H Distributing is launching a multimillion-dollar AI PC sales blitz that includes outfitting its…
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Google has increased rewards for reporting remote code execution vulnerabilities within select Android apps by ten times, from $30,000 to $300,000, with the maximum reward reaching $450,000 for exceptional quality reports. The company made these changes to the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program (Mobile VRP) and they apply to what it describes as Tier 1 applications.…
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New iterations of hardware and software offer gains in customers’ time-to-backup and time-to-restore. Dell has also introduced a GenAI security assistant for Apex, as the frequency of attacks rise and the average cost hits $1.92 million, Dell says. Dell’s toughest storage lineup just got back from the gym. The results of its workout include faster…
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Perficient is considering a sale to another IT company or to private equity, according to Bloomberg which cited unnamed people familiar with the matter, but the company in the end could also pass on such a sale, Bloomberg reported. Global digital consulting company Perficient appears to be looking at a potential sale. Bloomberg, citing unnamed…
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Three large-scale campaigns targeted Docker Hub users, planting millions of repositories that pushed malware and phishing sites since early 2021. As JFrog security researchers found, around 20% of the 15 million repositories hosted by Docker Hub contained malicious content, ranging from spam to dangerous malware and phishing sites. The researchers discovered almost 4.6 million repositories containing no…
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‘Can you guarantee the environment into which you’re recovering is clean? That’s a really hard problem to solve. Most of the customers that I’ve talked with about this say they tried building something like this for two years and gave up because it’s expensive. You have to have either a dark site or a whole…
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A new Android backdoor malware named ‘Wpeeper’ has been spotted in at least two unofficial app stores mimicking the Uptodown App Store, a popular third-party app store for Android devices with over 220 million downloads. Wpeeper stands out for its novel use of compromised WordPress sites to act as relays for its actual command and control (C2)…
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