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. New Apple iPhones don’t have physical […]
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 […]
IHSE USA announced a new solution: Draco tera IP Gateway. The Cranbury, N.J.-based company is, of course, a prominent KVM provider. The Draco tera IP Gateway provides users with the ability to bridge multiple KVM matrices over existing IP networks within buildings, across campuses and between remote corporate offices. Integrating the high levels of security […]
Workplace communication platform Slack is releasing three new security features to help organizations detect suspicious behavior, protect their Slack instance with proactive alerts and configure 12 different identity providers to a single organization. With remote and hybrid work proving to have staying power regardless of the existence of a health crisis, tools such as Slack […]
Microsoft has outlined its three strategies to protect against ransomware and the growing as-a-service cybercrime economy that has taken hold among ransomware groups. As well as investing in “integrated threat protection across devices, identities, apps, email, data and the cloud,” Microsoft suggests organizations take three key strategies to protect against ransomware, including preparing a defense […]
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