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6 insights every CIO should take away from the CrowdStrike debacle

CIO

In early 2000, following IT’s unprecedentedly effective response to the Y2K situation, the world botched its after-action review. But before we can even get started: It appears that, no matter how appealing the story, Southwest Airlines wasn’t immune to the CrowdStrike bug because its servers run on Windows 3.1.

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Unit 42 Discovers First Known Malware Targeting Windows Containers

Palo Alto Networks

The Unit 42 cybersecurity consulting group published research on the first known malware targeting Windows containers, which was discovered by Unit 42 researcher Daniel Prizmant and named Siloscape. Diagram of Windows container (source: Microsoft). In addition to containers, there are clusters. Execution flow of Siloscape.

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Detecting Risky Third-party Drivers on Windows Assets

Tenable

Kernel-mode drivers are critical yet risky components of the Windows operating system. Windows is an operating system that, over its 40-plus years of history, has developed more than a few arcane components that are a mystery to many systems administrators. What is a kernel-mode driver?

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The Dark Side of AI in Cybersecurity — AI-Generated Malware

Palo Alto Networks

In a thought-provoking interview on the Threat Vector podcast , Palo Alto Networks researchers Bar Matalon and Rem Dudas shed light on their groundbreaking research into AI-generated malware and shared their predictions for the future of AI in cybersecurity. We did that for different operating systems – for Windows, macOS and Linux.

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Inside CIOs’ response to the CrowdStrike outage — and the lessons they learned

CIO

Catholic Health’s IT systems and those of its partners were crashing, with one of its radiology vendors being among the first to experience technical difficulties. Millions of computers globally running Microsoft Windows crashed and displayed the “ blue screen of death ” error message. Mike Mainiero was awakened at around 2 a.m.

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Microsoft Recall: Everything IT can get wrong about AI in a single feature

CIO

It stores a snapshot of your computer’s screen every couple of seconds, indexing it for recall (hence the name) whenever you might want to review it. Please forgive my skepticism, but isn’t there an entire class of malware that works by gaining control of the victim’s PC? Take the subject of this column’s screed: Microsoft Recall.

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Stop Zero-Day Malware With Zero Stress With PAN-OS 11.0 Nova

Palo Alto Networks

With the sophistication of today’s threat landscape, malware is more evasive than ever. Nova – the next evolution of network security that allows you to stop zero-day malware with zero stress. The Evolution of Modern Malware. Attackers started to scan for these vulnerabilities within 15 minutes of a CVE being announced.

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