The telecom market has been in flux in 2024 as T-Mobile plans to buy U.S. Cellular for $4.4 billion and Verizon buys Frontier Communications for $20 billion. Ahead of the U.S. Cellular/T-Mobile deal, Verizon revealed plans to scoop up some of US Cellular Corp.’s spectrum licenses for $1 billion. Telecom giant Verizon, on the heels…
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‘We tend to talk about cybersecurity and AI as two separate things. I don’t think it’s an overlapping Venn diagram. I think they are a circle together. You really can’t have these conversations separate and distinct,’ says David Powell, vice president of sales strategy Pax8, during a panel at the XChange Best of Breed conference.…
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ThoughtSpot’s new CEO Ketan Karkhanis spoke with CRN about the data analytics industry and AI. Source link lol
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Hackers breached ESET’s exclusive partner in Israel to send phishing emails to Israeli businesses that pushed data wipers disguised as antivirus software for destructive attacks. A data wiper is malware that intentionally deletes all of the files on a computer and commonly removes or corrupts the partition table to make it harder to recover the data.…
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Nidec Corporation is informing that hackers behind a ransomware attack is suffered earlier this year stole data and leaked it on the dark web. The Japanese tech giant says the threat actors tried to extort the company and decided to leak the information after their demands were not met. The attack did not encrypt files…
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The massive CrowdStrike-caused outage in July continues to represent a ‘competitive tailwind’ for SentinelOne in its growth initiatives, a TD Cowen analyst tells investors. SentinelOne’s surging growth in cloud security and the CrowdStrike-caused outage in July are positioning the cybersecurity vendor to continue to see further gains in market share, a TD Cowen analyst told…
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For the week ending Oct. 18, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Presidio, Intel, AMD, Google Cloud, Netskope, Cyera and Inforcer. The Week Ending Oct. 18 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is channel superstar Presidio for striking a strategic collaborative agreement (SCA) that…
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Many solution providers are expecting major revenue growth next year thanks to opportunities in AI, cybersecurity and hardware refreshes. Despite many uncertainties, the U.S. is on track for solid growth in 2025, according to a veteran economist who spoke at the 2024 XChange Best of Breed Conference. Executives from top solution providers told CRN that…
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In 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched the K-12 Cybersecurity Pilot Program, a groundbreaking initiative backed by $200 million in funding. As threats escalate, educational institutions are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks, ranging from ransomware to data breaches. Building on the guidance of downloadable resources such as “Top 10 Cybersecurity Challenges Faced by K-12 Institutions,” the…
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The latest generations of Intel processors, including Xeon chips, and AMD’s older microarchitectures on Linux are vulnerable to new speculative execution attacks that bypass existing ‘Spectre’ mitigations. The vulnerabilities impact Intel’s 12th, 13th, and 14th chip generations for consumers and the 5th and 6th generation of Xeon processors for servers, along with AMD’s Zen 1, Zen…
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