Google has completed its acquisition of cybersecurity firm Mandiant and the two companies will work together to deliver an end-to-end security operations suite with even greater capabilities to support customers across their cloud and on-premise environments. Mandiant will join Google Cloud, but retain the Mandiant brand, according to the companies. The finalization of the deal […]
JumpCloud, an open directory platform for secure access, is launching a password manager to give IT admins and managed service providers better controls and enable password management across multiple users and groups. According to the company, JumpCloud Password Manager relies on a decentralized architecture that is a hybrid between a cloud-based manager and an offline […]
Now that Windows Autopatch is a few months old, Microsoft is making it even easier for IT admins to update their users’ Microsoft systems and ease their burden on Patch Tuesdays with new features such as application-only authentication and reporting on quality updates. Microsoft calls the updates a “direct result of feedback” from Autopatch users, […]
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Cybersecurity firm Sophos says IT professionals at retail organization are reporting above-average financial and operational impacts of ransomware attacks, with more than three-quarters of retail entities hit with ransomware in 2021. According to the U.K.-based firm’s research and annual study of 422 retail IT professionals across 31 countries, the retail sector saw a 75% increase […]
U.S. agencies are warning of an increase in ransomware attacks against the K-12 education sector, singling out a relatively new threat actor that has been observed disproportionately targeting school systems as they welcome students back into their buildings. That threat actor is Vice Society—an intrusion, exfiltration and extortion hacking group that first appeared in summer […]
Users of Google Chrome are again being urged to download a latest update to patch a high-severity security bug that is currently being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2022-3075, is described as an insufficient data validation flaw in Mojo, a collection of runtime libraries that Google says provides “a platform-agnostic abstraction of common IPC […]
Microsoft is ending unmanaged accounts for business-to-business collaboration in Azure Active Directory, resolving a major pain point for customers that had led to increased support costs and made access management difficult. According to the Redmond, Wash. IT giant, this makes external collaboration more secure in Azure Active AD, now part of the company’s rebranded suite […]
Microsoft is launching the general availability of the new Azure MFA Server Migration Utility to help customers modernize security and migrate from on-premises MFA Server to cloud-based Azure MFA. This comes after Microsoft began blocking new downloads of the on-prem MFA Server since July 2019, pushing customers toward Azure MFA, which Microsoft calls its “premier […]
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 Week in IT, a curated summary of IT and enterprise technology stories each week. Big tech players add zero-trust security […]
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