Unified communication and collaboration software provider RingCentral has announced new features designed to help organizations combine their preferred apps and services with a cloud-based communications platform, including new APIs, integrations and new software vendor partnerships. In a market heavily dominated by a few major players like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, RingCentral is the latest software […]
Every organization with internet-exposed workloads is vulnerable to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, especially those who are adopting cloud services in the wake of the pandemic. Bad actors will look for ways to take applications offline. The last week of August, Microsoft observed 2.4 terabits per second (Tbps) of DDoS attacks targeting Azure customers in Europe. […]
Google says its Threat Analysis Group of cybersecurity researchers is tracking new activity of an Iranian hacking group that uses novel techniques to steal credentials of high value targets in government and other related sectors. In a new blog, Google says it has sent over 50,000 security warnings to its customers this year, an increase […]
Microsoft has released a Linux version of its popular IT monitoring tool Sysmon to help IT professionals monitor Linux enviromments for possible malicious activity and log security events. Now, Linux users can monitor devices for malicious activity using this popular Windows tool. The company released Sysmon for Linux as an open-source project on GitHub In […]
If you have ever thought about the many IoT devices that live on networks at your organization, you should seriously look into the security of those products and segment those networks. At the very least, change the default passwords. That’s the lesson an Illinois high school district learned when a student hacked into his school’s […]
One of the most common cyberthreats impacting IT Professionals around the world is ransomware, a malicious program made for devices to lock data from users unless they pay a ransom. At least one in five organizations have fallen victim to a cyberattack, while almost one in ten were forced to pay a ransom to recover […]
Google’s Cloud Next conference is underway this week, and the company has already announced several new products and offerings, as well as updates to existing Google Workplace apps, with solutions ranging from enhanced cybersecurity tools, new collaboration features and a new portfolio of managed hardware and software solutions called Distributed Cloud. Google’s Distributed Cloud offering […]
Microsoft has released patches for 71 new vulnerabilities in Windows systems and applications this past Tuesday, which follows 11 previously patched software flaws in Microsoft Edge and OpenSSL. That makes 82 patches this month, which is just slightly down from the 86 patches issued by Microsoft in September. This month’s patches address issues in Edge, […]
Medical records for nearly 69,000 patients at a New Mexico hospital were deleted when an unauthorized individual accessed its network last year. According to a statement released last week by the San Juan Regional Medical Center (SJRMC), the hacker used malware to remove patient information from its network on Sept. 7-8, 2020. The attack was reported to the U.S. Department of […]
Verizon Business, which acquired unified communications and collaboration platform BlueJeans last year, has announced upgrades across the platform’s conferencing and events portfolio designed for hybrid work and interactive meetings of any size, including new BlueJeans Rooms solutions. The new features include what the company calls the “next generation” of the Bluejeans platform that includes BlueJean […]
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