SolarWinds is preparing to incur significant costs related to the compromise of the company’s Orion IT management platform and has already spent more than $3 million to remediate the impacts of the massive hacking campaign. Going forward, the company expects to incur costs related to the attack of up to $25 million in 2021. That […]
Microsoft has unveiled three new industry cloud offerings for financial services, manufacturing and nonprofits, coming shortly after the tech giant announced similar offerings for healthcare and retail. The company bills these new cloud offerings as a solution to industry challenges, including ones that emerged over the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic as companies […]
Cyberattacks on healthcare, manufacturing and energy doubled in 2020 from the year prior as threat actors increasingly target critical industries that can’t afford downtime, according to a new report from IBM. The tech giant’s 2021 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, released Wednesday, illustrates how cyberattacks evolved in 2020 as hacking groups took advantage of socioeconomic, business, […]
One of the big selling points of Macs over Windows PCs is the resistance to viruses and other malware, but a new strain of malware found on 30,000 devices is calling that into question and stumping security experts. Cybersecurity firm Red Canary, among others, has disclosed the existence of the malware on macOS that uses […]
We’ve all sat through mandated cybersecurity training that essentially consists of a video and a short quiz that end users must pass to keep in compliance with organizational standards. While those trainings are usually enough to cover the basics, today’s cyber attacks are evolving so fast and are becoming more sophisticated than ever before, requiring […]
Although Microsoft maintains that none of its tools were leveraged by the threat group behind the SolarWinds Orion compromise, the company did disclose that the hackers viewed source code for a small subset of Azure, Intune and Exchange components. In a Microsoft Security Response Center blog on the final update of the company’s internal investigation […]
Microsoft’s next feature update to Windows 10, version 21H1, will be released in the first half of this year and include features to help organizations adjust to distributed work models. According to a blog from John Cable, the company’s vice president of program management, Windows servicing and delivery, version 21H1 will be delivered with servicing […]
The number of private sector companies that fell victim to the SolarWinds attack is now around 100, according to U.S. officials who gave a briefing on the large-scale sophisticated supply chain attack that used popular IT management software as an initial access. In a White House briefing Wednesday, Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security advisor […]
LogMeIn is making changes to its popular password management solution LastPass that will impact users with free accounts beginning next month. The company’s new restrictions to a free subscription to LastPass will limit users to view and manage passwords on only one type of device, either a mobile device or computer. Currently, users can access […]
Bose Professional is adding to its lineup of videoconferencing devices with the new Bose VideoBar VB1 all-in-one USB conferencing device for audio and video in meeting spaces. The device was announced at ISE 2020 and is now available. According to the company, the device brings premium audio and video quality to conferencing spaces and ensures […]
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