Tech distribution giant TD SYNNEX has announced a new cybersecurity program designed to close the skills gap and upskill new and existing cybersecurity professionals for the firm’s channel partners. According to the company, the Passaged Program aims to reduce the cybersecurity skills gap through its Placement and Upskill initiatives that are designed to place candidates […]
Excel is now a little safer for organizations to use as Microsoft is making a once optional setting that disables the usage of Excel 4.0 macros the default. According to a Tech Community blog, the setting—which was rolled out as an optional setting in July 2021—is now the default when users open Excel 4.0 macros. […]
Cloud governance, compliance and security policies are top inhibitors for organizations looking to adopt the cloud this year, according to a study by Arlington, VA-based developer Stacklet. The survey included over 700 IT professionals, developers and solutions architects from a cross-section of mid-to large-size companies in industries such as software, financial services, government and computers. […]
While new research shows a decrease in total perimeter malware detection volume in the third quarter from the record highs in the second quarter, there was still more malware activity through the first three quarters than all of 2020. The report from endpoint protection provider WatchGuard Technologies also found that nearly half of zero-day malware […]
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling innovation through open source, has announced the availability of three new training courses on its edX platform: Open Source Software Development: Linux for Developers (LFD107x), Linux Tools for Software Development (LFD108x), and Git for Distributed Software Development (LFD109x). The three courses can be taken individually or combined to […]
It’s no secret that most major enterprises across the globe use Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for identity and access management. This ubiquity is also one of the predominant reasons AD is such a popular and attractive target for adversaries. What remains a mystery to many enterprises, however, is how adversaries – including the malicious actors […]
Many organizations that have valuable data or even come close to touching sectors of the U.S. government are likely fending off cyberattacks from nation-state countries, with Russia among the top such threats. Now, due to increasing tensions between Russia, Ukraine and western countries, IT and cybersecurity professionals should be on the lookout for sophisticated threat […]
A new report from Cisco Talos, the IT vendor’s security research team, details how hackers are increasingly using public cloud services like Azure and AWS that eliminates the need to host their own infrastructure. Specifically, researchers narrowed in on a fall 2021 campaign that utilized variants of known remote access trojans that were deployed and […]
Russia says it has shut down the REvil ransomware gang, arrested several individuals and seized a total of about $7 million from the well-organized cybercrime operation that has plagued businesses in the U.S. and abroad for years. In a press release, the FSB, Russia’s principal security agency, says it carried out the operation at the […]
After the Log4j vulnerabilities threw a wrench into the holiday plans of IT and cybersecurity folks last month, the federal government has taken swift action to address the issue, including instructing federal agencies to quickly patch and mitigate the vulnerability and making other resources available to the larger IT community. Now, the issue has been […]
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