Tag: Cybersecurity
Two months after the massive IT outage caused by a CrowdStrike update, ‘customers still want to consolidate on the Falcon platform,’ according to a Morgan Stanley analyst. Two months after the massive IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update, customers remain interested in expanding their usage of the company’s cybersecurity offerings, according to a…
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The massive campaign targeted U.S. networks through compromising devices including routers and firewalls, according to an advisory from the FBI and other agencies. A massive cyberattack campaign linked to China targeted U.S. networks through compromising devices including routers and firewalls, according to an advisory Wednesday from the FBI and other federal agencies. The advisory from…
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The January 2023 breach of a vendor’s cloud environment led to the exposure of data from 8.9 million AT&T customers, according to the FCC. AT&T will pay $13 million as part of a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over the 2013 cloud breach of a third-party vendor, which shouldn’t have been holding data…
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A researcher from security vendor AppOmni uncovered more than 1,000 ServiceNow instances that have been exposing Knowledge Base data. More than 1,000 ServiceNow instances have been discovered to be exposing potentially sensitive Knowledge Base data, according to a researcher from SaaS security vendor AppOmni. Knowledge Base (KB) data “can be a treasure trove of sensitive…
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‘While we started by catching up with older, more established tools, we are now leading the industry in innovation,’ says HaloPSA CEO Tim Bowers. HaloPSA is experiencing the only good issue a company could have: growing pains. When starting out, the U.K.-based professional services automation vendor was playing catch-up in terms of automation and innovative…
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The email and data security vendor has unveiled an array of updates that are geared toward increasing opportunities for channel partners, according to Proofpoint Channel Chief Joe Sykora. Proofpoint is rolling out an array of updates across partner services, data protection and AI security capabilities that are geared toward increasing opportunities for the channel, according…
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The flaw had received a fix during Microsoft’s ‘Patch Tuesday’ update on Sept. 10, but had not initially been listed as exploited in attacks. A Microsoft Windows vulnerability with a rating of “high” severity has been acknowledged as having seen exploitation in cyberattacks, after initially being listed by the tech giant as unexploited upon its…
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‘I compare AI to the New York subway,’ says Balancelogic CEO Bill Campbell. ‘It’s a great tool that’s quick and convenient, but you have to be cautious. Just like in the subway, there are precautions you need to take with AI, particularly concerning data security.’ Dawn Sizer and some of her clients have already seen…
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‘CloudImposer could have allowed attackers to conduct a massive supply chain attack by compromising the Google Cloud Platform’s Cloud Composer service for orchestrating software pipelines,’ says Tenable security researcher Liv Matan. Google has patched a critical security flaw inside its Google Cloud Platform Composer tool that could have enabled hackers to achieve remote execution on…
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“This deal is a big accelerant for the NWN platform which is consistent with the approach we have taken over the last five years that has allowed us to quadruple the company from less than $300 million to more than $1 billion,” said NWN Senior Vice President of Corporate Development Matt Curran. NWN Carousel has…
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