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SolarWinds Hack

What We Know About The Massive Hack of SolarWinds’ IT Management Platform

The tech community and end users are still reeling from the massive hack of SolarWinds’ Orion platform. Here's what we know so far.

December 16, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

The tech community is still reeling from the massive hack of SolarWinds’ Orion platform that resulted in the compromise of several U.S. government networks and reportedly thousands of other SolarWinds customers. According to public filings, news reports and the company’s own disclosures, here is what we’ve learned since news of the highly sophisticated attack was […]

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Data Breaches Average Cost

Cybersecurity Vendor FireEye Says It Was Attacked By ‘Sophisticated’ Actor

FireEye CEO says a highly trained threat actor stole tools the company uses to test the network defenses of its customers.

December 9, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Nation-state hackers with access to advanced tools broke into the network of U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye and stole tools it uses to test the network defenses of its customers, the company announced Tuesday. According to a statement from FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia, the attacker appears to be highly sophisticated and has access to advanced tools […]

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NSA: Russian-backed Hackers Exploiting VMware Vulnerability

The NSA says Russian state-sponsored hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in VMware products and accessing protected data on affected systems.

December 8, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

The U.S. National Security Agency has released an advisory detailing how Russian state-sponsored hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in VMware products and accessing protected data on affected systems. According to Monday’s advisory, the attackers are exploiting a vulnerability in VMware Access and VMware Identity manager products, then accessing “protected data and abusing federated authentication.” Products […]

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IBM COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain

IBM: Hackers Targeting COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain

IBM’s cybersecurity team has uncovered a global phishing campaign that targets organizations associated with COVID-19 vaccine supply chains.

December 3, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

IBM’s cybersecurity team has uncovered a global phishing campaign that targets organizations associated with COVID-19 vaccine supply chains. Specifically, attackers are targeting the cold chain – a component of the vaccine supply chain that preserves vaccines in temperature-controlled environments during transportation and in storage, according to IBM. This “calculated operation” began in September and spanned […]

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Collaboration Systems

Platform-Agnostic Systems Are Key To Collaboration Amid Busy Remote Work Tech Market

The collaboration market is becoming crowded with software, so IT leaders now need to invest in platform-agnostic systems as work-from-anywhere continues.

December 1, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

In 2020, the world became intimately familiar with unified communication and collaboration technology that helped organizations transition to remote work as COVID-19 lockdowns forced offices and workplaces to close. With that came several challenges, including keeping remote workers engaged at a level consistent with when everyone was back in the office and making sure these […]

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Salesforce Einstein GPT

Report: Salesforce Could Acquire Slack

A Salesforce acquisition of Slack would merge the top customer relation management platform with an office collaboration app.

November 30, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Customer relationship management platform Salesforce is reportedly in talks to acquire workplace collaboration platform Slack. According to multiple news reports, the deal – which could be announced as soon as this week – would add to Salesforce’s list of recent acquisitions over the last few years. CNBC reported that the deal could be one of […]

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digital transformation

The Value of Digital Transformation to Creating New Revenue Streams

In a recent Commercial Integrator webinar, representatives from Microsoft, Sharp, and TechData discussed how digital transformation can bring new efficiency and revenue to organizations.

November 24, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

In a recent Commercial Integrator webinar, representatives from Microsoft, Sharp, and TechData discussed how digital transformation can bring new efficiency and revenue to organizations.

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Shure Acquires Stem Audio, Expands Portfolio Conferencing Solutions

Audio solutions company Shure has acquired Stem Audio, which specializes in audio conferencing speakers, microphones and other devices.

November 23, 2020 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Shure has acquired California-based Midas Technology, Inc., also known as Stem Audio, which specializes in providing a suite of products including table, ceiling and wall microphones as well as loudspeakers, control interfaces and hubs. This acquisition also includes Midas’ Phoenix Audio Technologies brand. With the acquisition of Stem Audio, Shure “will be able to further […]

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Google Meet Duo

Breakout Rooms Come to More Google Meet Users

Google is beginning roll out breakout rooms to more Google Meet users along with new features to improve the breakout rooms experience.

November 20, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Google is beginning roll out breakout rooms to more Google Meet users along with new features to improve the breakout rooms experience. The company on Thursday announced that breakout rooms would be coming to users of Google Workspace, Essentials, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus and G Suite Business and Enterprise […]

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