Tag: Cyberattacks

‘One of the things we’ve been really pushing out there is becoming that chief AI strategist … just like a virtual CISO, we’re that virtual person that is out there coming in to assess, making sure you get all your ducks in a row. And then as you go down that path, really handholding you,…

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‘All of these tools are now available, the sophistication of how people can deploy these models across various business processes where there is data and where there is tuning of these models is also getting more widespread, even at systems integrators and other developers [that] are there to help enterprises,’ says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.…

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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…

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“We believe there will be added demand because a combined portfolio is more interesting,” IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said on an earnings call. IBM executives painted the planned $6.4 billion purchase of cloud infrastructure tools vendor HashiCorp as complementary to multiple business segments – including fellow open-source tools provider Red Hat – even as IBM…

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The flaws impact Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense software and have been exploited in a state-sponsored campaign against global governments as far back as November, the company says. Cisco Systems disclosed two zero-day firewall vulnerabilities Wednesday that the tech giant said have been exploited by a state-sponsored attacker in an espionage campaign…

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GenAI, Red Hat and potential acquisitions are expected to come up on the vendor’s earnings call Wednesday. Updates on generative artificial intelligence offerings. Growth in the Red Hat business. And the potential acquisition of HashiCorp. These are some of the big topics IBM executives are expected to weigh in on during the Armonk, N.Y.-based vendor’s…

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The data stolen from prescription processor Change Healthcare includes ‘files containing protected health information (PHI) or personally identifiable information (PII),’ UnitedHealth says. UnitedHealth Group said in a statement Monday it’s confirming that a potentially significant amount of data belonging to Americans may have been stolen in the Change Healthcare cyberattack earlier this year. The stolen…

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The new M-Trends report details how ransomware, zero-day attacks and other major cyber threats evolved last year. The discovery of compromised systems continues to accelerate thanks both to improved detection tools and increased ransomware activity, according to Mandiant’s M-Trends threat report for 2024 that was released Tuesday. The analysis is the 15th annual M-Trends report…

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Cisco’s Talos research team says it’s monitoring a ‘global increase in brute-force attacks’ against targets including VPN services, while an exploit has been released for a critical vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS firewall software. Hackers continue to escalate their targeting of network security devices and remote access services as a means of breaching customer…

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‘I’m really excited to come back because there’s real problems that I feel like I can help fix,’ says Arnie Bellini, ConnectWise founder. Arnie Bellini has a lot to say. And after a five-year noncompete agreement ending in February, he’s officially back in the channel and ready to make a splash. ‘I’m really excited to…

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