Alex Stamos Named CISO at SentinelOne 2024-08-01 at 19:16 By Ryan Naraine Longtime security executive Alex Stamos tapped by SentinelOne to manage its security engineering and operations teams. The post Alex Stamos Named CISO at SentinelOne appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View Original Source React to this […]
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Microsoft Says Azure Outage Caused by DDoS Attack Response 2024-07-31 at 16:06 By Eduard Kovacs Microsoft’s response to a DDoS attack on Azure amplified the impact of the attack instead of mitigating it, causing outages. The post Microsoft Says Azure Outage Caused by DDoS Attack Response appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt
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Microsoft: DDoS defense error amplified attack on Azure, leading to outage 2024-07-31 at 13:46 By Zeljka Zorz A DDoS attack that started on Tuesday has made a number of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 services temporarily inaccessible, the company has confirmed. Microsoft’s mitigation statement on the Azure status history page Microsoft Azure, 365 outage triggered
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VMware ESXi auth bypass zero-day exploited by ransomware operators (CVE-2024-37085) 2024-07-30 at 14:01 By Zeljka Zorz Ransomware operators have been leveraging CVE-2024-37085, an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Active Directory domain-joined VMware ESXi hypervisors, to gain full administrative access to them and encrypt their file system. VMware owner Broadcom has released a fix for CVE-2024-37085 on
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Microsoft Says Ransomware Gangs Exploiting Just-Patched VMware ESXi Flaw 2024-07-29 at 21:46 By Ryan Naraine VMware did not mention in-the-wild exploitation for CVE-2024-37085 but Microsoft says ransomware gangs are abusing the just-patched flaw. The post Microsoft Says Ransomware Gangs Exploiting Just-Patched VMware ESXi Flaw appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek
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Some good may come out of the CrowdStrike outage 2024-07-29 at 19:31 By Zeljka Zorz Estimated financial losses due to the recent massive IT outage triggered by the faulty CrowdStrike update are counted in billions, but the unfortunate incident is having several positive effects, as well. Some silver linings As CrowdStrike was forced to explain,
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CrowdStrike blames buggy testing software for disastrous update 2024-07-24 at 15:32 By Zeljka Zorz A bug in the Content Validator – a software element CrowdStrike relies on for testing and validating Rapid Response Content updates for its Falcon Sensors – is (partly) why the faulty update wasn’t caught in time, the company said. In a
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Microsoft releases tool to speed up recovery of systems borked by CrowdStrike update 2024-07-22 at 15:16 By Zeljka Zorz By now, most people are aware of – or have been personally affected by – the largest IT outage the world have ever witnessed, courtesy of a defective update for Crowdstrike Falcon Sensors that threw Windows
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Microsoft Says 8.5 Million Windows Devices Impacted by CrowdStrike Incident, Publishes Recovery Tool 2024-07-21 at 16:31 By Mike Lennon Microsoft says roughly 8.5 million Windows devices were impacted by the faulty software update from CrowdStrike, and published a tool to help admins through the recovery process. The post Microsoft Says 8.5 Million Windows Devices Impacted
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Bad CrowdStrike Update Linked to Major IT Outages Worldwide 2024-07-19 at 14:01 By Eduard Kovacs Organizations worldwide are reporting major outages due to Windows system crashes caused by a bad CrowdStrike update. The post Bad CrowdStrike Update Linked to Major IT Outages Worldwide appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS
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Can AI be Meaningfully Regulated, or is Regulation a Deceitful Fudge? 2024-07-10 at 16:46 By Kevin Townsend Few people understand AI, nor how to use nor control it, nor where it is going. Yet politicians wish to regulate it. The post Can AI be Meaningfully Regulated, or is Regulation a Deceitful Fudge? appeared first on
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Microsoft fixes two zero-days exploited by attackers (CVE-2024-38080, CVE-2024-38112) 2024-07-09 at 22:31 By Zeljka Zorz For July 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released security updates and patches that fix 142 CVEs, including two exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-38080, CVE-2024-38112) in Windows Hyper-V and Windows MSHTML Platform (respectively). Zero-days exploited in the wild (CVE-2024-38080, CVE-2024-38112) CVE-2024-38080 is a
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Microsoft Warns of Windows Hyper-V Zero-Day Being Exploited 2024-07-09 at 22:04 By Ryan Naraine Patch Tuesday: Microsoft patches more than 140 security vulnerabilities in the Windows ecosystem, including a pair of exploited zero-days. The post Microsoft Warns of Windows Hyper-V Zero-Day Being Exploited appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS
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Skillsoft partners with Microsoft to develop GenAI skilling program 2024-07-09 at 15:31 By Industry News Skillsoft announced a comprehensive generative AI (GenAI) skilling program developed in collaboration with Microsoft. Leveraging Skillsoft’s AI Skill Accelerator, the program upskills organizations and their workforce to effectively use Microsoft AI — including Copilot and Azure Open AI — and
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Microsoft Banning Android Phones for Staff in China 2024-07-08 at 23:31 By SecurityWeek News Starting in September, Microsoft will mandate the the use of Apple’s iPhones to authenticate identities when logging into work machines. The post Microsoft Banning Android Phones for Staff in China appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek
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TeamViewer: Network segmentation hobbled Midnight Blizzard’s attack 2024-07-08 at 20:31 By Zeljka Zorz TeamViewer, the company developing the popular remote access/control software with the same name, has finished the investigation into the breach it detected in late June 2024, and has confirmed that it was limited to their internal corporate IT environment. “Neither our separated
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July 2024 Patch Tuesday forecast: The end of an AV giant in the US 2024-07-08 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz The US celebrated Independence Day last week, providing many with a long weekend leading into patch week. With summer vacations underway, many developers must be out of the office because June was fairly quiet regarding
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IBM Consulting partners with Microsoft to help clients modernize security operations 2024-07-02 at 11:01 By Industry News IBM Consulting and Microsoft announce strengthened cybersecurity collaboration to help clients simplify and modernize their security operations, and manage and protect their hybrid cloud identities. As organizations embrace hybrid cloud and AI to drive innovation, they require advanced
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Microsoft Alerts More Customers to Email Theft in Expanding Midnight Blizzard Hack 2024-06-28 at 21:01 By Ryan Naraine Shockwaves from the Russian government’s hack of Microsoft’s corporate infrastructure continue to spread as the victim pool widens. The post Microsoft Alerts More Customers to Email Theft in Expanding Midnight Blizzard Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This
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Argus Cyber Security and Microsoft partner to secure automotive fleets throughout the vehicle lifecycle 2024-06-17 at 14:47 By Industry News Argus Cyber Security is collaborating with Microsoft to build a next generation, end-to-end platform for automotive and mobility security. This Argus Vehicle Security Platform consists of two integrated solutions that combine Argus’ automotive cybersecurity portfolio
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