Tag: Data breaches
‘We sincerely apologize this incident occurred,’ according to a letter to Avis customers. Avis, the car rental company, has disclosed that threat actors accessed one of its business applications and accessed customer personal information. The Parsippany, N.J.-based company has sent letters dated Sept. 4 to customers whose information was accessed in the breach, according to…
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This year’s leading news stories (so far) include the ongoing AI wave that’s remaking the IT industry, the impact of three multi-billion-dollar acquisition deals, the contrasting fortunes of two of the industry’s leading semiconductor companies – and what was likely the biggest IT system failure to date. AI Highs, Service Failure Lows The top news…
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A zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director has reportedly been exploited by Chinese government hackers to target internet service providers and MSPs. Internet service providers and MSPs are the main targets of a cyberattack campaign exploiting a Versa Networks SD-WAN vulnerability and linked to the Chinese government, according to security researchers and media reports. The attacks…
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New functionality in the Druva platform helps incident response teams and security analysts identify cyber threats across data landscapes and more quickly recover from data security incidents. Data protection and security provider Druva is expanding its platform with new threat hunting capabilities that will help IT and security teams identify threats throughout their data environments…
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As part of the annual Tech Innovator Awards evaluation process CRN selects a number of the applicants as finalists. Here’s a look at the innovative products that have made the first round of the judging. Innovation Surge The wave of development around artificial intelligence and generative AI in the last two years has shaken up…
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The telecom giant said the records—but not the content—of phone and text messages for seven months of 2022 was exposed. AT&T said Friday that records of phone and text messages for “nearly all” customers was exposed in a significant data breach. The records date from a seven-month period of 2022—from May 1, 2022, to Oct.…
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The IT systems outage for car dealerships caused by a mid-June ransomware attack still lasted two weeks. CDK Global reportedly paid $25 million to cybercriminals after a mid-June ransomware attack disrupted business for thousands of car dealerships. According to a report from CNN citing multiple sources, software maker CDK paid the ransom to accelerate the…
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An AT&T spokesperson reportedly disclosed the theft of customer records was part of the recent wave of data theft attacks targeting Snowflake customers. An AT&T spokesperson reportedly disclosed that the massive theft of customer records was part of the recent wave of data theft attacks targeting Snowflake customers. The disclosure came as the telecom giant…
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Advance Auto Parts disclosed that data belonging to 2.3 million customers was exposed in an April attack targeting its Snowflake deployment. More details have emerged on what appears to have been another serious data breach linked to a campaign targeting Snowflake customers, with Advance Auto Parts disclosing that data belonging to more than 2 million…
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Two weeks after it was struck by a ransomware attack, the software maker says that ‘substantially all’ of the car dealerships it serves are back online. CDK Global said Tuesday that “substantially all” of the car dealerships it serves are back online, two weeks after the software maker was struck by a crippling ransomware attack.…
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