TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

We are confident that our investors’ extensive know-how and network of partnerships will accelerate Viva Wallet’s plan to unify the fragmented European payments market. “We are excited to onboard Tencent, EBRD and Breyer Capital to Viva Wallet,” said Haris Karonis, founder and CEO of Viva Wallet, in a statement. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It was deliberate from us because we saw the opportunity in the SMB space, and how they require the same technology pie the Ubers and Netflixes of this world use,” Agboola told TechCrunch. But that changed last August when it hired Jimmy Ku as head of growth to spearhead its expansion into the U.S. and the U.K.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Tenable Research discovered an SMB force-authentication vulnerability in Open Policy Agent (OPA) that is now fixed in the latest release of OPA. This exploration led us to discover an SMB force-authentication vulnerability (CVSSv3 6.1) affecting all existing versions of OPA for Windows at that time.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Convertedin says SMB e-commerce marketers that use its platform increase their return on ad spend (ROAS) by 2x and reduce customer acquisition costs (CAC) by 40%. Fergany argues that though online brands use CRM software to gather data, they do not utilize most of it. So Convertedin offers a solution where they can use their data best.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

The upshot was Bounce was able to grow revenue 38x in 2021, per Candee — reaching “millions” in revenue, and expanding its partner network to 40 countries. The 2020 global freeze on leisure travel put a temporary pause on demand for short term luggage storage. It was a gamble and not easy but now we can say it paid off!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

The loans platforms and neobanks catering to domestic SMBs include Kabbage (now a part of Amex ), Finally , Brex , Rho , Juni , NorthOne , Lili , Mercury , Hatch (now rebranded as Nearside ), Anna , Tide , Viva Wallet , Open , Novo , MarketInvoice and many others. “They could be a barbershop.”

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 22, 2023

Highest Scores for Enterprise Edge and Distributed Enterprise Use Cases In December 2022, for the eleventh consecutive time, Palo Alto Networks was named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls. And on May 16th, Gartner published its Critical Capabilities for Network Firewalls report.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The company plan to strengthen its capabilities in local commerce with Danggeun Pay, or Karrot Pay, which is set to launch this year, and Danggeun’s platform Karrot enables approximately 300,000 local SMB partners to go digitalized by offering offline to online (O2O) service.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Once a compromised USB drive was inserted into a system, Stuxnet was executed automatically via the vulnerability, infecting the host machine, propagating to other systems through network shares and additional USB drives. This flaw, along with several other Flash vulnerabilities, highlighted Flash’s risks, accelerating its eventual phase-out.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

” For example, Gartner found that 41% of SMB customers rely on customer ratings and reviews before making a purchase. . “Therefore, it’s essential to clearly communicate the benefits of your product and develop use cases tailored to the challenges businesses are facing.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

It says its network offers network effects, too — customers have access to all of the retailers on the platform. What it does: A vertical SaaS platform powering SMB trucking companies with workflow automation, smart data and embedded financial solutions. BeyondTrucks. Founders: Hans Galland (CEO), Paul Xie (COO).

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CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A managed service provider (MSP) is an outsourcer contracted to remotely manage or deliver IT services such as network, application, infrastructure, or security management to a client company by assuming full responsibility for those services, determining proactively what technologies and services are needed to fulfill the client’s needs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

It automatically collects “many” receipts by “leveraging exclusive data from credit card networks, and integrations with thousands of POS partners,” according to Brex. Empower, the company says, will, for example, eliminate the collection of receipts. A customer can’t use Empower without also using a Brex Card.

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Kaseya

AUGUST 2, 2022

SMB priorities present opportunities for MSPs. Secure and reputable companies attract customers, and MSPs can help their SMB clients make security a major selling point. Most SMBs walk the tightrope between cost and productivity. SMBs are also looking to hire more general IT technical staff and help desk agents.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

“In the last six years, we’ve built more than 50 bank integrations and now offer payments across 95 countries, payments through a partner network,” he added, with 43 of those offering real-time transactions. The SMB business is growing faster in terms of customers, he said.).

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Ivanti

APRIL 28, 2021

Both agents stop the propagation of malware and ransomware by first detecting the malicious attachment, blocking the script from executing, and then isolating the infected endpoint from the network. Once the threat has been remediated by the company IT administrator, the workstation or server can be restored to normal operation.

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ProtectWise

MAY 15, 2017

WannaCry's primary infection vector is through publicly accessible hosts running an unpatched version of Windows via the SMB protocol. WannaCry spreads primarily over SMB, but it can also use RDP. Once it infects a host, WannaCry scans the local network (VLAN IP Range) and public IP ranges. What Networks are Vulnerable?

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Kaseya

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

MSPs hold the keys to the kingdom when it comes to data access and, while a typical day won’t involve leaping from trains to protect it like the fictional professor, they still need to take action to keep themselves and their SMB customers safe. They can also jump from a partner or SMB customer over to you! Island Hopping.

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CableLabs

MAY 23, 2023

Ransomware is the result of malicious attackers compromising a system or network and exfiltrating or encrypting encountered data; victims are then solicited for return of control or access to their data. What should SMBs under attack do immediately, what decisions should they make and who should be part of the solution?

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Tenable

JUNE 9, 2020

This flaw can be exploited on an authenticated server or against an SMB client. An authenticated attacker would need to send a specially crafted packet to exploit this vulnerability against a vulnerable SMB server. CVE-2020-1301 | Windows SMB Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. Tenable solutions.

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Arcserve

OCTOBER 10, 2019

According to a report by Untangle, a network security provider, 48 percent of all surveyed SMBs said they have less than $5K budgeted to spend on IT security, down from 54 percent last year. More than half (52 percent) said they don’t have an in-house IT security professional on staff, leading them to spread security.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With the attack surface continuously growing in size and complexity, it is more critical than ever that you identify all the assets in your network — not just your core IT assets but also any assets related to operational technology (OT) as well as any " shadow IT " assets. SMB (remote). SMB (local). Confidence. Windows 6.3.

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Tenable

APRIL 8, 2021

Recent research has borne out that the odds of a small or medium-sized business (SMB) undergoing a cyberattack or data breach are more than 50-50: About 66% of SMBs experienced at least one cyberattack in 2019. Just under 50% of SMBs were specifically hit with a ransomware attack. This is one of many reasons why Christopher C.

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Kaseya

AUGUST 26, 2020

Restoring 2TB of data to a server from a local backup using traditional backup software over a typical network connection could take 10 hours or more. For example, an SMB might outsource BCDR to an MSP so they can focus on other aspects of their business. Consider the following example.

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Kaseya

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Although the majority of criminal money is still made at the expense of the SMB sector (as always), brazen “big game” attacks on giant corporations, government, healthcare, education and transport have never been in the news as much as they have been in recent years, with some U.S.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Implement Network Segmentation and Encryption in Cloud Environments Segmentation has become a hot topic in recent years with the introduction of micro-segmentation in data centers, as well as with every authority on network security highlighting the necessity of a “deny by default” firewall strategy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

It’s a development that’s interesting considering its proximity to Prosus reevaluating investments in other regions, specifically the currently-pariah state of Russia, including a $770 million write-down in March of its investment in social network VK.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

On February 7, Austin-based SMB-focused Sana Benefits announced that it was cutting about 19% of its staff. He writes that his hope is that it “gives entrepreneurs a better benchmark to work off of when scaling their businesses.” Check it out here.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

We use an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Windows server as an SMB/CIFS client to the FSx for ONTAP volume and configure data sharing and ACLs for the SMB shares in the volume. To mount an FSx for ONTAP data volume as a network drive, under This PC , choose (right-click) Network and then choose Map Network drive.

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Tenable

MAY 8, 2020

This is the second installment in our three-part series exploring how to use Tenable products to protect credentials used for network assessments. In my last post , I covered general best practices for protecting credentials when performing network assessments. Secure SMB protocols. Enforce SMB signing. Learn More.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Administrative Tools Internet Explorer 11 Internet Information ServicesWorld Wide Web Services LPD Print Service Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) Server Core MSMQ HTTP Support MultiPoint Connector SMB 1.0/CIFS Advanced Services ASP.NET 4.6

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CTOvision

AUGUST 4, 2014

Improved support for Windows user profile persistence and roaming/network-based user profiles. Serve client software updates from Windows File Shares (SMB), Unix file systems via SAMBA, Amazon S3, and any URL-based content delivery network. Invincea Management Service 2.1 x clients in a single interface. Time: 4:05-5:30 p.m.

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Kaseya

MAY 17, 2021

MDM yields a surprisingly large number of benefits such as: Making it easy for users to connect to business services, such as email, Wi-Fi networks and VPNs, by setting up profiles defining mobile device configurations. Key Benefits of MDM.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 28, 2021

in July 2021 and continuing with Conti and BlackMatter in September and October 2021, operators increasingly understand how easy it is to gain unrestrained access to a victim’s network - the literal keys to the kingdom - with domain privilege via AD. It refreshes network shares, stops certain services and kills processes. LockBit 2.0

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Here are the five startups, as described by the credit card giant: EMERGE Esports (Singapore) provides its network of gaming content creators and brands across Southeast Asia with commercialization options through its talent database. JPMorgan acquired a stake in the Athens-based SMB-focused fintech in early 2022.

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Tenable

JANUARY 3, 2025

The FBI recommends limiting the use of the devices mentioned in this PIN and/or isolating them from the rest of your network, reads the FBI alert titled HiatusRAT Actors Targeting Web Cameras and DVRs. Consider removing devices from your network that are no longer supported by their manufacturer. Segment your network.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Attackers have a cornucopia of options from which to choose to gain that first step into target networks. Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and virtual private network (VPN) solutions are consistently two of the top targets. Specifically, CISA has warned of the TrickBot malware and BlackMatter ransomware abusing SMB.

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