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Managed service providers (MSPs) have long relied on third-party software to manage clients’ IT infrastructure, but a massive ransomware attack launched over the weekend at customers of Kaseya will likely cause MSPs to take a harder look at the security of their IT suppliers. Kaseya revealed late Friday night that a zero-day vulnerability in its VSA on-premises servers resulted in 60 clients being directly compromised, impacting a pool of 1,500 downstream businesses. After a series of highly publicized ransomware attacks this spring, the Kaseya attack most resembles the compromise of SolarW...

LinkedIn Hack is Scraped Data, Company Claims A hacker who recently offered 700 million LinkedIn records for sale alarmed LinkedIn users and security specialists, but the company insists the data is linked to previously reported scraped data and wasn’t hacked. The RaidForums post offering the data included a sample users’ full names, genders, birthdates, LinkedIn user names, Facebook user names, Twitter user names, GitHub user names, email addresses, phone numbers, job titles, and full company information. PrivacySharks’ Madeleine Hodson, the first to report the new leak, noted that whi...

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