US President-elect Donald Trump along with his son Donald, Jr., arrive for a press conference at Trump Tower in New York, as Allen Weisselberg (C), chief financial officer of The Trump, looks on. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images The longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, Allen Weisselberg, is under criminal […]
Archives for May 2021
Snap reaches 500 million monthly users
Evan Spiegel, CEO of SNAP Inc. Stephen Desaulniers | CNBC Snap said Thursday that its social media app Snapchat has reached 500 million monthly active users. This is a significant milestone for Snap, a company that refused multi-billion dollar acquisition offers by Facebook before it went public in 2017 and survived an ill-fated redesign in […]
Create a remote access security policy with this template
Considering the dramatic increase in remote access to IT resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, management of remote access security has become an essential activity. Organizations should establish policies and procedures for remote access security as part of an overall cybersecurity management program. While cybersecurity policies are likely to already be established and implemented in many […]
ServiceNow’s Acquisition Spree Adds Observability
ServiceNow’s acquisition program is aimed at creating the autonomous enterprise of the future. Here’s how observability company Lightstep fits in. vegefox.com via Adobe Stock Every company is a software company, the saying goes. In 2021 that’s not a new concept. But the pandemic really raised the stakes. A year after the stampede to work-from-anywhere and […]
Azure gains 100th compliance offering—protecting data with EU Cloud Code of Conduct
I’m announcing that Azure has achieved adherence to the EU Cloud Code of Conduct (EU Cloud CoC), developed for cloud providers to align with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The EU Cloud CoC is the first GDPR code of conduct that has received the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) positive opinion, which was followed by final […]
Pandemic tech use heightens consumer privacy fears
The dramatic expansion of the average person’s digital footprint due to Covid-19 restrictions is causing increased anxiety over personal privacy, and a feeling for many people that they are losing control over how much data online platforms hold on them, according to a report compiled by Trūata, a supplier of “privacy-enhanced” data analytics services. Trūata’s […]
Search made simple: native Elastic integration with Azure—now in preview
This post was co-authored by Rohit Tatachar, Senior Program Manager. With the ever-increasing adoption of cloud-based solutions, and the incredibly complex make-up of the application architectures; the ability to effectively manage, orchestrate, and monitor the scenarios for search, security, and operations are becoming very critical for the success of the businesses. As part of Microsoft […]
Malicious scans for at-risk systems start minutes after disclosure
Malicious actors begin to scan for at-risk systems within an average of 15 minutes of the disclosure of a new Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE), and in many instances much quicker than that – scans for vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Server deployments began within five minutes back in March 2021. This is according to newly released […]
Microsoft, Google Clouds Hijacked for Gobs of Phishing
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CDC chief says lab-based origin of Covid is ‘one possibility,’ but animal host is most common
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dr. Rochelle Walensky testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to examine the FY 2022 budget request for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on May 19, 2021 in Washington,DC. Jim Lo Scalzo | AFP | Getty Images Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]