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Ransomware Attacks Rise Almost 93% in 2021

Ransomware attacks almost doubled, rising 92.7% in 2021, and the trend will likely continue through 2022 and beyond, NCC Groups says.

February 23, 2022 TD Staff Leave a Comment

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 […]

64 Percent of U.S. Freelancers Have Profited from Selling NFT Services, According to New Data from Fiverr

February 23, 2022 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Freelancers are among the early adopters of NFTs and taking full advantage of the exploded interest in this new digital technology NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fiverr International Ltd., (NYSE: FVRR), the company that is changing how the world works together, has revealed new data showing that 64 percent of U.S.-based freelancers have profited from selling NFT-related services. […]

Phishing, Ransomware Continue To Plague Businesses As Awareness Stagnates

Proofpoint phishing report finds that 60% organizations hit with ransomware in 2021 paid the ransom, but not all data is recovered.

February 22, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

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 […]

Google Reports 400,000 Daily Log4j scans

Google says it is continuing to see as many as 400,000 daily scans for Log4j vulnerabilities against Google Cloud.

February 22, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

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 […]

Options Announced As Founding Member of Newly Launched “Sustainable Trading” Membership Network

February 22, 2022 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

LONDON & NEW YORK & HONG KONG–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Options Technology, the leading provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, was today announced as one of the founding members of the newly launched “Sustainable Trading”, a non-profit membership network to drive ESG change across financial markets. The founding members of Sustainable Trading come from […]

CORRECTING and REPLACING 62% of Financial Services Leaders Expect Their Cloud Investments to Increase Revenue Over Next Two Years

February 21, 2022 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Capco and Wipro’s FullStride Cloud Services global study finds financial services companies’ cloud goals are focused on business and revenue growth. LONDON & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Please replace the release dated February 16, 2022, with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. The updated release reads: 62% OF FINANCIAL SERVICES LEADERS EXPECT THEIR CLOUD INVESTMENTS […]

L3Harris Completes Imager Integration for NOAA’s Advanced Environmental Satellite

February 21, 2022 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Highlights: ABIs radically improve weather observation through advanced technology Achieves resolution 4 times greater, 5 times faster than previous satellites Delivers high-resolution video of weather and environmental systems   MELBOURNE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The fourth Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) built by L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has been successfully integrated into NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U), completing the […]

Starry Celebrates Expansion of Its Affordable Internet Service to HACLA’s Avalon Gardens

February 18, 2022 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Avalon Gardens is the ninth HACLA community to join Starry Connect, providing residents affordable broadband access without requiring credit checks or complex eligibility requirements to participate; Starry’s expansion to Avalon Gardens is part of its collaboration with Microsoft’s Airband Initiative, to accelerate the availability of low-cost broadband access in public housing; Starry and Microsoft also […]

Microsoft Pushes Zero Trust Capabilities In Azure

Microsoft is going all-in on Zero Trust as it releases the public preview of new Azure AD security features this month and previews two more.

February 18, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

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, […]

IT Leaders, Admins Disagree On Key Cloud Database Migration Themes

IT leaders and database administrators disagree on the importance security and analytics when migrating database to the cloud, report says.

February 18, 2022 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

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 […]