Mandiant and CrowdStrike, two of the largest cybersecurity providers, are teaming up to help joint customers investigate, remediate and defend against advanced cybersecurity threats, with Mandiant using the CrowdStrike Falcon platform and subscription offerings for its incident response services. The partnership between the two cybersecurity giants will enable organizations of all sizes to leverage both […]
One of Microsoft’s largest announcements about improvements to the Windows management experience for IT professionals last week was Windows Autopatch, a new feature of Windows Enterprise E3 designed to keep Windows and Office software on enrolled endpoints updated automatically. According to Microsoft, Patch Tuesdays — when the company releases monthly security patches the second Tuesday […]
If the fourth quarter for 2021 is any indication, 2022 will be another year that cybersecurity and IT professionals would want to forget, as advanced network attacks increase by 33% in the fourth quarter, indicating a higher level of zero day threats than ever before, reports WatchGuard Technologies. In a new analysis of the fourth […]
The FBI and a contingent of U.S. agencies and cybersecurity professionals have removed malware from vulnerable internet-connected firewall devices to remove the Russian-implanted botnet Sandworm and disable the command and control infrastructure on thousands of underlying victim devices. Via a court order, the FBI “copied and removed malware from vulnerable internet-connected firewall devices that Sandworm […]
Despite inflation, geopolitical disruptions and talent shortages, global IT spending is expected to rise by 4% and hit $4.4 trillion this year, according to Gartner. Despite “one of the noisiest years on record” for CIOs, who are dealing with geopolitical disruptions, inflation, currency fluctuations and supply chain challenges, IT decision-makers are accelerating their IT investments […]
Crestron has announced the expansion of its room control portfolio with key enhancements to its software-based control solution VC-4 Virtual Control that make the solution more scalable yet still powerful. According to the Rockleigh, N.J.-based provider of networking solutions, the new VC-4 software platform enables IT managers to scale room configurations faster than traditional hardware […]
Similar to how cybercriminals jumped on the COVID-19 and used the pandemic as a useful phishing lure, attackers are exploiting the Ukraine crisis to conduct email-based donation scams, deploy malware and steal credentials. According to email security firm Tessian, researchers are seeing Ukrainian-themed phishing emails skyrocket, with new domains containing “Ukraine” up more than 200% […]
Microsoft has unveiled what it has in store for Windows 11 and Windows 365 for commercial customers and IT managers, including new features in security, management, productivity and collaboration. The announcements came during the company’s Windows Powers the Future of Hybrid Work event, one quarter through the first full year of Windows 11, and are largely […]
The information technology and cybersecurity communities are still assessing the impact of Spring4Shell, a remote code execution vulnerability recently disclosed in the Spring Framework for Java that could allow for remote code execution in vulnerable installations. While exploit attempts have not yet been widespread, there is a simmering concern that this bug could be nearly […]
Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Virtual Machines featuring the Ampere Altra Arm-based processor designed to help organizations manage complexity and run modern, dynamic and scalable applications. According to Microsoft, these new VMS are designed to efficiently run scale-out workloads, web servers, application servers, open-source databases, cloud-native as well as rich .NET applications, Java applications, […]
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