Deploying more cybersecurity tools doesn’t mean a company is safer
The ever-increasing incidences of cybersecurity are pushing enterprises to improve their security measures. However, most of them are investing in too many tools that could actually be counterproductive.
On Tuesday, IBM unveiled a global survey report, carried out by Ponemon Institute. The surve... Read more
Ransomware targets MongoDB and threatens to report GDPR breach
An anonymous hacker is running ransomware attacks that targets 22,900 MongoDB databases. When the attack is successful it threatens victims to report them to the authorities for breaching the GDPR legislation. As long as they pay a certain amount of money in cryptocurrency they won't be reported.
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Microsoft Defender ATP can calculate security score of device and network
Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) now has a new set of firmware-level tools that can calculate a security score for your devices and network. The score will tell admins the health of your device’s environment based on its configurations.
A high score implies the shared config... Read more
Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google will testify before Congress
The CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google are ready to testify before Congress as part of the lawmaker’s inquiry into competitive practices in the technology industry.
The news of the CEO's participation was announced on Twitter by Record co-founder Kara Swisher, but the official confir... Read more
Web admins are advised to update their Magento stores
Magento has advised users of Magento Open Source 1 and Magento Commerce 1 e-commerce platforms to download the latest updates. The discovery of two security threats has necessitated this.
The most dangerous and critical error is a PHP object injection bug that could result in random code executi... Read more
Apple acquires Fleetsmith, an expert in remote device management
Now, more than ever, IT departments have had to help employees set up their devices so they can work remotely and efficiently manage their devices. A service that makes this process easy to do can come in handy. Apple knows this, and for that reason, they acquired Fleetsmith.
Fleetsmith is a sta... Read more
It is a new dawn as Amazon launches $2B venture capital fund
Today, Amazon announced that it will set up a 2 billion dollars project capital fund to back firms developing sustainable technologies and services.
The investment venture, dumped Climate Pledge Fund, comes at the right time as the giant store had declared its efforts to become net carbon-neutra... Read more
Industrial cybersecurity start-up CyberX bought by Microsoft
The industrial cybersecurity start-up CyberX is the latest acquisition of Microsoft. The deal was made in May of 2019, but now became public. Microsoft paid 165 million dollars for the startup.
CyberX was started in 2013 by former military cybersecurity experts to provide industrial cybersecurit... Read more
Mozilla rolls out its standalone VPN service in the upcoming weeks
Mozilla announced that the Mozilla VPN, formerly known as Firefox Private Network, will exit the beta stage in the coming weekend and will be rolled out later this summer.
Initially, Mozilla rolled out its VPN as a browser extension for Firefox only, but later on, the company expanded ... Read more
Adobe requests users to remove Flash Player this year
Users of Adobe Flash Player will soon receive a notification to uninstall the software before the end of the year. The reason is that support for Adobe Flash Player will end on the 31st of December.
Adobe is taking the necessary steps to inform users that support for Adobe Flash Player ... Read more