Cybersecurity services provider Mandiant has released its M-Trends 2022 report, based on data from the company’s investigations between October 2020 and the end of 2021, and it shows that while cyber defenses and techniques are improving, attackers are also continuing to adapt to new trends. Based on the company’s investigations, the report also outlines some […]
Companies that are mandating employees return to the office after two years of distributed work due to the COVID-19 pandemic may be bringing upon elevated levels of stress and anxiety, according to new search from Future Forum. The Future Forum Pulse survey, commissioned by workplace communication firm Slack, found that more than a third (34%) […]
Microsoft is announcing new Endpoint reporting capabilities within the Microsoft 365 Defender portal that brings together Device Control reports and Windows Firewall reports so admins can see what is happening in their environment in just a few clicks. According to Microsoft, the reports are designed to give insight into device behavior and activity while allowing […]
Microsoft is beginning the final phase of disabling SMB1 in Windows, announcing that SMB1 is now disabled by default for Windows 11 Home Insiders, and the company will remove the SMB1 binaries and the drivers and DLLs of SMB1 in future releases. In a Tech Community blog, Ned Pyle, a principal program manager in the […]
CompTIA has updated it’s A+ certification for IT support professionals to align with the modern, distributed workforce and emphasize the skills that IT departments need to support hybrid and remote workers. According to the Downers Grove, Ill.-based nonprofit organization for the IT industry, the new version of CompTIA A+ (220-1101 and 220-1102) is now available globally. […]
Security researchers have discovered three Unified Extensible Firmware Interface vulnerabilities impacting more than 100 different models of Lenovo consumer laptops that could allow attackers to deploy and execute malware. According to Slovakia-based cybersecurity firm ESET, two of the discovered firmware bugs affect UEFI firmware drivers originally designed to only be used during the manufacturing process […]
IT management software provider SolarWinds is releasing its new Hybrid Cloud Observability platform designed to give organizations the ability to accelerate its digital transformation efforts by providing a comprehensive and unified view of the distributed workforce. According to the company, the Hybrid Cloud Observability platform helps organizations solve the problem many are faced with: an […]
Microsoft is launching Microsoft Purview, a new set of solutions designed to help organizations govern, protect and manage their entire data estate, combining the capabilities of Azure Purview and the Microsoft 365 Compliance portfolio. In a blog post, Microsoft outlines how the events of the last two years has led to a massive increase in […]
Although the IT software supply chain and the technologists tasked with using those tools to keep organizations safe from cyberattacks continue to innovate, hackers are also adapting their techniques to target and infiltrate organizations’ IT environments, according to cybersecurity firm Mandiant’s M-Trends report. The company’s M-Trends 2022 report, based on investigational metrics between Oct. 1 […]
Microsoft has launched the preview of Azure Managed Grafana, a new managed service that lets customers run the popular open-source analytics visualization tool natively within the Azure cloud platform. According to Microsoft, organizations can use Grafana to bring together logs, traces, metrics and other disparate data from across an organization and visualize all its telemetry […]
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