About
O’Ryan Johnson is a veteran news reporter. He covers the channel beat for CRN and hopes to hear from channel partners about how he can improve his coverage and write the stories they want to read. He can be reached at ojohnson@thechannelcompany.com.
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‘w0zniak’ Pleads Not Guilty To Selling MSP Access On Dark Web
by O’Ryan Johnson
Marquavious D. Britt, aka “w0zniak,” was indicted on Feb. 11 on charges including computer fraud and trafficking in a counterfeit device. During a six-minute hearing, Britt pleaded not guilty to the charges and was assigned a federal public defender
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Ingram Micro: Any Change In Ownership Will Not Impact Operations
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘We believe this is all related to issues with the aviation portion of HNA’s business and has nothing to do with Ingram Micro,’ the company says in a statement.
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FBI: MSP Engineer Arrested In Attempt To Sell Access To Clients
by O’Ryan Johnson
“I have admin access to the hosting panel, passwords for each client is provided and you’ll access them through RDP. Their client list is sort of extensive I’m asking for $600 BTC,” said Marquavious Britt in a post on Torum using his online alter ego “w0zniak,” the FBI charged.
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‘I’m Selling Access To An MSP’: How Three Vendors Teamed To Foil Hacking Plot
by O’Ryan Johnson
MSP vendors Datto, Huntress Labs and ConnectWise helped save an MSP's access credentials from being sold on the dark web’s auction block.
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How Alleged Dark Web Hacker ‘w0zniak’ ‘Tried To Put’ MSP Chimera Out Of Business
by O’Ryan Johnson
The hacker known on the dark web as ‘w0zniak’ was allegedly an MSP employee attempting to sell access to the company's customer data, according to the FBI.
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Huntress Labs ‘Shot Themselves In The Foot,’ Says Investigations Expert
by O’Ryan Johnson
“They’re experts in their field, but they don’t know anything about regular investigations. The fundamentals of regular investigations are you don’t lie.”
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Xerox Increases Takeover Offer Price For HP To $24 Per Share
by O’Ryan Johnson
'Xerox’s offer provides HP stockholders with both significant, immediate cash value, and meaningful upside via equity ownership in the combined company,' Xerox wrote in a statement announcing the revised offer.
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Shadow Inc. CEO: ‘We Own’ The ‘Catastrophic’ Iowa Caucus Failure
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘It’s pretty clear from what I read that they went with a smallish firm, a cheapish app, and then shortchanged the testing side,’ Rob Mason, the chief technology officer at app testing company Applause, tells CRN.
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Shadow Inc. Cops To Failure Of App To Deliver Iowa Caucus Results
by O’Ryan Johnson
'Shadow’s mobile caucus app was sound and accurate, but our process to transmit that caucus results data generated via the app to the [Iowa Democratic Party] was not,” the company said in a series of tweets.
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Former Hillary Clinton, Obama Operatives Behind Failed Iowa Caucus App
by O’Ryan Johnson
'I would say this company failed, not technology failed. Everything had a single point of failure. If I was designing it, there would have been multiple clusters … that’s actually a pretty common practice nowadays,' Jason Erickson, chief operating officer at ThinkSpace IT in Harlan, Iowa, tells CRN.
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Iowa Caucuses: Solution Providers Seek Relief From Surging Benefit Costs
by O’Ryan Johnson
As Democratic candidates try to craft a message around worker benefits that appeals to voters, small business owners say they feel left out of the conversation.
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