Tag: Cybersecurity
‘All versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) are affected by [the vulnerabilities] but are not vulnerable in their default configurations,’ the IBM-owned company said. Red Hat warned Thursday that four newly discovered vulnerabilities — which are rated as “important” and affect all versions of Enterprise Linux — could enable remote execution of code. “All…
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Incidents disclosed over the past week have included attacks targeting Internet service providers and a municipal water treatment system. Threat actors continue to intensify their targeting of U.S. critical infrastructure providers, as demonstrated by a series of recently disclosed attacks. This week has seen incidents disclosed including attacks targeting internet service providers and a cyberattack…
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Security industry executive Chris Schueler has been named the new CEO of the cybersecurity-focused solution and service provider. Cybersecurity industry executive Chris Schueler has been named the new CEO of Cyderes as Robert Herjavec (pictured) steps down effective Oct. 1, the company announced. Cyderes was formed in 2022 through the merger of Herjavec Group and…
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The breach and attack simulation (BAS) vendor debuted its new Elevate channel program as it seeks to expand the deployment of its offering that can help to validate endpoint security and other tools. Breach and attack simulation (BAS) vendor SafeBreach debuted its revamped channel program Wednesday as it seeks to expand the deployment of its…
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In testimony before a U.S. House Homeland Security subcommittee, CrowdStrike’s Adam Meyers said the July outage has prompted a major shift in how the vendor approaches content updates impacting the Windows kernel. CrowdStrike has overhauled its approach to deploying threat-related content updates that impact the Windows kernel in the wake of the massively disruptive July…
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Chik, president of identity and network access at Microsoft, tells CRN that the tech giant’s Secure Future Initiative is succeeding at ‘strengthening’ Microsoft’s corporate security in the wake of major nation-state attacks in recent years. Microsoft’s massive engineering effort to lock down its internal corporate cybersecurity in the wake of major nation-state attacks is producing…
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When it comes to the closet competitors of the security hyperautomation startup, ‘we are years ahead of them,’ Torq CEO Ofer Smadari tells CRN. Torq is planning to deploy its new $70 million funding round — which is the second major fundraise of the year for the security “hyperautomation” startup — to advance its AI-powered…
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‘We all need and expect AI we can trust,’ Microsoft EVP and CMO Takeshi Numoto said. Microsoft introduced a series of new product capabilities aimed at making artificial intelligence systems more secure, including a correction capability in Azure AI Content Safety for fixing hallucination issues in real time and a preview for confidential inferencing capability…
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When it comes to GenAI, the security of the AI models themselves is at risk as ‘data poisoning’ is increasingly taking aim at the training data that large language models rely on to generate responses and make decisions. The future of generative AI all hangs on cybersecurity—but perhaps not in the way you’d think. While…
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A threat actor is reportedly claiming to have posted Dell employee data on a hacker forum. After a threat actor claimed this week to have posted stolen data belonging to Dell Technologies employees, the tech giant disclosed Friday that it’s investigating the allegations. The company has not yet specified whether a security incident has affected…
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