Tag: Cybersecurity
Cyera, Glean and xAI are among the recently founded AI companies capturing major investor attention. A data security platform powered by artificial intelligence, a provider of AI agents and assistants founded on company data, and Elon Musk’s mysterious AI company are among the most well-funded startups so far in 2024. Cyera, Glean and xAI are…
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A threat actor ‘obtained certain personal information’ belonging to more than 60,000 customers and stored in the Snowflake platform, according to Neiman Marcus Group. Neiman Marcus Group confirmed Tuesday that it’s among the victims impacted by recent widespread cyberattacks targeting Snowflake customers, in an incident that saw data belonging to more than 60,000 customers potentially…
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The maker of software used by thousands of car dealerships has reportedly been in negotiations with threat actors over a ransom payment worth tens of millions of dollars. CDK Global has begun to restore its systems and has been in negotiations with threat actors over a ransom payment, purportedly worth tens of millions of dollars,…
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The medical data exposed in the cyberattack earlier this year may have included ‘diagnoses, medicines, test results, images, care and treatment,’ according to Change Healthcare. Change Healthcare disclosed that it now believes sensitive patient medical data was exposed in the widely felt cyberattack earlier this year, as the UnitedHealth-owned company said it is preparing to…
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A pair of cyberattacks against software maker CDK continues to impact thousands of car dealerships and has spurred threat actors to launch impersonation attacks. The CDK Global outage affecting thousands of car dealerships continued Friday, while the attempts to recover from cyberattacks earlier this week were compounded by reported impersonation scams targeting dealership staff. While…
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GenAI has remained a top focus for cybersecurity vendors recently during the first half of the year, but plenty of other new products—including in SIEM, SASE and XDR—have debuted during the first half of the year. The list of cybersecurity tools utilizing generative AI continued to balloon during the first half of the year, including…
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Starting midnight July 20, Kaspersky is barred “from entering into any new agreement with U.S. persons involving one or more” information and communications technology and services deals. The United States has taken steps to ban domestic sales and integration of products by Russia-based cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky, citing “undue and unacceptable risks to U.S. national security…
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The provider of software used by thousands of car dealerships reportedly says it has shut down most of its systems after a pair of attacks. CDK Global, a provider of software used by thousands of car dealerships, has reportedly shut down most of its systems after a pair of cyberattacks in recent days. The first…
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In an interview with CRN, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says the now-delayed Recall offering is just the latest case where ‘Microsoft has put profits and features over security.’ As sensational as the recent saga over Microsoft’s Recall feature may be, to anyone who has been following Microsoft’s series of security failures in recent years, it’s…
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‘The overall message is we’re embracing partners and we’re focused on them making money,’ CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz tells CRN. According to solution provider executive Ryan Morris, behind the stunning growth of cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike is something that’s been in shockingly short supply lately around the tech industry: long-term vision. From “day one,” CrowdStrike has…
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