Tag: Vulnerabilities
The massive Microsoft Azure and CrowdStrike outage reportedly was caused by a recent update to CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor software. Here’s where everything stands as of Friday morning. From emergency 911 call centers to national health-care services to the largest airlines, the Microsoft Azure and CrowdStrike outage is causing chaos around the world. As of Friday…
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‘The company has carefully examined and evaluated the impact of the U.S. legal requirements and made this sad and difficult decision as business opportunities in the country are no longer viable,’ says the Moscow-based antivirus software company. Russian cybersecurity giant Kaspersky confirmed Tuesday that it will be exiting the U.S. market and ceasing operations in…
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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 138 new CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) is ‘just shy of the record’ for Microsoft’s monthly release of security fixes, writes Trend Micro’s Dustin Childs. Microsoft made fixes available Tuesday for five critical vulnerabilities as part of its July patch release — while disclosing fixes for a near-record number of new CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities…
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The U.S. did not sanction CEO and founder Eugene Kaspersky. The United States has blocked members of Russia-based cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky’s leadership from making transactions in the country a day after banning the company from making sales in the U.S. Twelve individuals associated with Kaspersky have been designated to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list…
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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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Virtusa, Redapt, Network Doctor, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Atlassian are among the companies to list open positions for channel-related roles. This month, Virtusa, Redapt and Network Doctor are among the solution providers to list open positions while Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Atlassian are among the vendors to list open positions for channel-related roles.…
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The U.S. cybersecurity agency also added a recently disclosed Google Pixel flaw to its list of exploited vulnerabilities. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed that a Microsoft Windows privilege escalation vulnerability has seen exploitation in attacks. The vulnerability (tracked at CVE-2024-26169) this week was tied to attacks by the Black Basta ransomware…
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The attack, part of an industry-wide attack targeting information stored using Snowflake, did access telemetry data in a single Snowflake data analytics workspace used by Pure Storage for customer support, but Pure Storage said no compromising customer data was accessed. All-flash and cloud storage technology developer Pure Storage Tuesday said that a third party had…
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As the industry has gotten better at locking down endpoint devices such as laptops, threat actors are finding new ways to infiltrate an organization’s systems—and they’re seeing more and more success. From the widespread compromise of Ivanti VPNs to a string of cyberattacks involving vulnerabilities in on-premises firewalls, this year has seen threat actors increasingly…
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