IT Pro News in Review: Vulnerable Lenovo laptops, record EE 5G speeds, Okta ends LAPSUS$ probe
Catch up on the biggest headlines of the week in just two minutes
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Two Fortinet vulnerabilities are being exploited in the wild – patch nowNews Arctic Wolf and Rapid7 said security teams should act immediately to mitigate the Fortinet vulnerabilities
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Coursera and Udemy eye AI training dominance in $2.5bn mergerNews The deal between Coursera and Udemy will create a $2.5bn company to help workers learn AI – and retrain for jobs replaced by it
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Flaw in Lenovo’s customer service AI chatbot could let hackers run malicious code, breach networksNews Hackers abusing the Lenovo flaw could inject malicious code with just a single prompt
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Amazon confirms employee data compromised amid 2023 MOVEit breach claims – but the hacker behind the leak says a host of other big tech names are also implicatedNews Millions of records stolen during the 2023 MOVEit data breach have been leaked
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Nearly 70 software vendors sign up to CISA’s cyber resilience programNews Major software manufacturers pledge to a voluntary framework aimed at boosting cyber resilience of customers across the US
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Lenovo patches ThinkPad, Yoga, IdeaPad UEFI secure boot vulnerabilityNews Mistakenly used drivers could allow hackers to modify the secure boot process
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Lenovo ThinkPads vulnerable to privilege escalation exploit, researchers warnNews A component running on the popular business computers is vulnerable to a chained exploit that grants full access to attackers
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Lenovo banned from installing bloatware on its laptops after SuperfishNews Lenovo also agrees to FTC security audits, on top of a $3.5 million fine
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Lenovo makes security blunder with 12345678 passwordNews Lenovo's file-sharing app had three other security flaws too, researchers find
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Facebook warns of new Superfish threatNews The fake security certificate used by the Lenovo-installed adware can be re-used by hackers, says social network
