Ransomware attacks almost doubled in 2021, rising to 92.7% year-over-year, according to NCC Group, a global cyber security and risk mitigation firm. The firm’s 2021 Annual Threat Monitor shows a gradual but noticeable rise in ransomware attacks since the pandemic began. Ransomware accounted for 65.38% of all incidents dealt with by NCC’s global cyber response […]
Google is moving into the final phase of its migration from Classic Hangouts to Google Chat for Workspace customers and will make Google Chat the default chat application beginning March 22. Users of Workspace and legacy G Suite Basic and Business that visit classic Hangouts in Gmail on the web or the classic Hangouts mobile […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released a litany of free security tools and resources designed to help organizations advance its security capabilities, including widely used open-source tools and services offered by private and public sector organizations. The catalog of free resources comes amid rising geopolitical tensions that both government agencies and software […]
More than two-thirds were infected with ransomware from a direct email payload, and 60% of those victims paid the ransom, according to new research from cybersecurity and compliance firm Proofpoint. The company’s 2022 State of the Phish Report, the results of a survey of 600 IT professionals and 3,500 workers, reveals that phishing and other […]
It’s no surprise that some of the best jobs in America for 2022 are ones that allow work from home (WFH) and the jobs with the most access to WFH are in tech. At least 90% of database architects report having access to working from home, according to Glassdoor. Enterprise architects came in as the […]
Google says there are as many as 400,000 scans for Log4j vulnerabilities against Google Cloud each day, suggesting that IT professionals need to continue to be vigilant and ensure that they remediate vulnerable systems. The claim comes in Google’s Threat Horizons Executive Snapshot this month, a quarterly report from the company’s Cybersecurity Action Team. Google […]
Audio and unified communications solutions provider Yamaha Unified Communications has announced the RM-TT tabletop and RM-CG ceiling-mount microphones for conferencing applications designed around the Dante platform. The standalone microphones pack all of Yamaha’s sound technologies, including automatic voice tracking, auto gain control, adaptive echo cancellation, noise reduction, and reverberation suppression for optimal collaboration experiences while […]
Microsoft is positioning itself as a partner in the U.S. government’s push toward a Zero Trust architecture, including the publication of resources designed to help organizations migrate to the cloud and adopt a Zero Trust framework and the release of Azure capabilities to help secure cloud environments. In a new blog, Microsoft outlined several resources, […]
Nearly all organizations are at least on the path toward a cloud database migration, but IT leaders and database administrators disagree on the importance security and analytics, according to new research from MariaDB Corporation. The company’s 2021 Cloud Database Trends Survey of over 120 IT professionals found that 61% of organizations are either fully migrated or […]
Like Windows 11 Home edition, Windows 11 Pro edition will require an internet connection and Microsoft account during the initial device setup, Microsoft says. The news came in a blog announcing features and fixes in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22557 released to the Dev Channel. The requirement will likely be required as part of […]
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