Tag: Cyberattacks
According to a ProPublica report, the tech giant was dismissive of an employee’s warnings about a vulnerability later exploited in the widely felt SolarWinds Orion attacks. Microsoft was dismissive of a whistleblower’s warnings about a vulnerability later exploited as part of the widely felt SolarWinds Orion attacks, according to a ProPublica report. The former employee,…
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While Splunk-Cisco product integration was big news at this week’s .conf24 event, Splunk also debuted new products around AI, next-generation Security Operations Centers and data management. Splunk has unveiled a series of AI tools and assistants across its product portfolio that the company said are designed to help organizations speed up routine tasks, glean new…
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With the new “Build with Confluent” program, the company looks to help systems integrators develop use-case solutions around the Confluent data streaming platform and market those solutions to potential customers. Expanding on its recent initiatives to work with the channel, Confluent today launched the Build with Confluent program through which the company is providing technical…
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Venture capital continues to flow to startups developing artificial intelligence and generative AI technology. Here’s a look at 10 companies that successfully raised new funding in May. Follow The Money The venture capital space continues to show signs of exiting the slump it has been in since early 2022. But while startups in such technology…
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The attack, part of an industry-wide attack targeting information stored using Snowflake, did access telemetry data in a single Snowflake data analytics workspace used by Pure Storage for customer support, but Pure Storage said no compromising customer data was accessed. All-flash and cloud storage technology developer Pure Storage Tuesday said that a third party had…
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A cybercriminal group is suspected to have stolen data from 165 organizations, Mandiant says. Details disclosed by Mandiant researchers Monday suggest the attacks targeting Snowflake customers had a wider impact than previously suggested, with a “significant” volume of data stolen and more than 100 customers known to be potentially impacted so far. A cybercriminal group…
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The telecom firm made the disclosure as an extortion group reportedly claimed Frontier as a data theft victim. Frontier Communications revealed that a previously disclosed cyberattack, which occurred in mid-April, exposed the data of more than 750,000 customers. The Dallas-based telecom firm made the disclosure as an extortion group reportedly claimed Frontier as a data…
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The change reportedly could be disclosed soon as the company’s optional multifactor authentication has come under scrutiny. Snowflake reportedly plans to switch over to having MFA turned on by default for users of its cloud data platform, amid a number of data theft attacks linked to compromised Snowflake accounts. CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy (pictured) told Runtime…
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A report indicated that Advance Auto Parts is allegedly the latest victim in a wave of data theft attacks targeting Snowflake customers. Advance Auto Parts is reportedly the latest victim in a wave of data theft attacks targeting Snowflake customers, which are believed to be utilizing stolen passwords. Separately, a report from TechCrunch highlighted the…
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Cisco unveiled a number of security updates at its Cisco Live conference, including integrating its Splunk acquisition with Cisco security, a new firewall series, and new AI-native management for its Cisco Security Cloud. Cisco Tuesday unveiled a number of security updates, including integrating its Splunk acquisition with Cisco security, a new firewall series, and new…
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