Working from home can create a great sense of freedom and flexibility, but it comes with its challenges. When working from home, the heightened cybersecurity risks that come with working outside of a secure corporate network must be addressed for optimal protection. Should someone hack into your home office or Wi-Fi network, your computer and […]
Microsoft has announced two new security products in the Microsoft Defender family designed to provide IT and security professionals with deeper context into threat actor activity and help organizations better secure their infrastructure and reduce their attack surface. With Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence, security operations teams can uncover attacker infrastructure and accelerate their investigations and […]
Microsoft has announced two release updates to Viva Sales and Viva Goals, two new tools under its Viva employee experience and engagement product family launched last year. For Viva Sales, Microsoft has put its new selling tool in public preview. The company bills it as a new app designed for salespeople that connects Microsoft 365 and […]
The Federal Communications Commission is warning of a substantial rise in smishing and scam text messages targeting consumers, with 2022 on pace to nearly triple what was reported to the commission in 2019. According to the FCC, which tracks complaints about scam calls and texts, there have been about 8,500 such complaints through June 30, […]
After pausing the rollout of a default macro-blocking feature in Microsoft Office, Microsoft is now officially blocking VBA macros by default in Office applications in a move to make it harder for threat actors to deploy malware and ransomware using Office applications. Microsoft first announced the VBA macro blocking in February 2022, just a few […]
Editor’s note: There is a lot going on in the world of IT, from emerging technologies to digital transformation and new cybersecurity threats. However, we can’t possibly cover it all, so we’ll bring you this curated summary of IT and enterprise technology stories each week. New AWS Security Features Amazon this week announced two key new security […]
When President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 last Thursday, he—just like everyone else in the world with a similar diagnosis—was forced to work out of his home. That home, however was the residence at the White House, and his employer is the American people, so it’s safe to say that he has access to […]
Cybersecurity firm Sophos is releasing Cloud Native Security, a new offering designed to address the requirements of protecting workloads and provide comprehensive security coverage across environments, workloads and identities. According to the U.K.-based cybersecurity software provider, Cloud Native Security also gives customers centralized visibility, prioritized detections and faster incident response times in a single SKU […]
Updating systems and patching security vulnerabilities has always been a key part of the job for any IT or security professional, but a new report from cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks sheds new light on just how quickly threat actors are leveraging new vulnerabilities. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based security software provider’s Unit 42 Incident Response […]
Verizon announced several new updates across the desktop, mobile and Portal application of BlueJeans Meetings designed to help users conduct more inclusive meetings for organizations adopting a remote or hybrid work environment, including the ability to overlay a participant’s video feed over content being shared. That feature is called Weather Person Mode, and it allows […]
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