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The manual turns good advice on its head, telling officials to use, reuse and recycle weak passwords. more…Please Vote: Fourth Annual SANS IR Survey Wants You!
Share your perspective and help benchmark the industry. [And SANS will enter you to win a $400 Amazon gift card!] This is the 4th year that Intel Security/McAfee has co-sponsored the SANS Incident Response survey. We would appreciate your help capturing this year’s insights by completing this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2017SANSIRSurvey Past survey findings have helped us […] more…Fortinet Code Execution Flaw Exploited in PivotC2 RAT Attacks
The high-severity, unauthenticated vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-25249 was patched in January 2026. The post Fortinet Code Execution Flaw Exploited in PivotC2 RAT Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…Microsoft and Amazon devote billions of dollars to thousands of FDEs
Systems integrators (SIs) have been integral to IT projects for decades, providing consulting services and helping enterprises build and launch technology tools. Now, as organizations move to deploy agentic AI, top large language model (LLM) providers are looking to get in on that action. A proliferation of Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) services embeds AI experts […] more…Apple — 50 years in fifteen minutes
It felt churlish to let Apple’s 50th birthday pass without adding to the hagiographic choir, so what follows is an unapologetically selective tour through some of the moments that shaped one of the most influential companies of the modern era. These were the inflection points where Apple didn’t just ship products, it distorted reality in its direction. For […] more…European Parliament votes to delay EU AI Act implementation
The European Parliament’s Thursday vote to delay parts of the EU AI Act adds more uncertainty to the already chaotic AI compliance universe. But analysts say that CIOs must proceed as though the compliance rules are in effect. Members of the European Parliament voted to delay application of rules on high-risk artificial intelligence (AI) systems […] more…Intel’s AI pivot could make lower-end PCs scarce in 2026
In 2026, lower-end PCs may be more difficult to come by, and for those that are available, price tags may rise. This is fallout from Intel’s plans to pivot its manufacturing capacity from chips for PCs to Xeon processors to support intensive AI workloads. The company has admitted that it had miscalculated demand for its […] more…Europe votes to tackle deep dependence on US tech in sovereignty drive
European lawmakers on Thursday adopted a comprehensive report on technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure that directs the European Commission to reduce the bloc’s heavy reliance on foreign technology providers across semiconductors, cloud infrastructure, software, and AI systems. The report passed 471-68 in the full Parliament, with 77% voting in favor and support from major parties […] more…Tech sector continues downward slide amid modest US job growth in November
The US economy added 64,000 jobs in November, but the slide in tech jobs continued, with the telecom sector and computer systems design seeing declines. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics said the number of people employed in November totaled 163.7 million, while the number of unemployed was 7.1 million. The overall unemployment rate rose […] more…Growing enterprise revenue boosts Zoom’s first-quarter growth
Despite falling revenue from online sign-ups, videoconferencing company Zoom remains positive about its future outlook, posting a 5% year-on-year increase in total revenue for the three months to April 30. The company saw unprecedented levels of growth during the COVID-19 pandemic but since the end of global lockdown orders has sought to pivot to connect […] more…EU closes in on AI Act with last-minute ChatGPT-related adjustments
The European Parliament is set to formalize its position on what could be the world’s first set of regulations for AI by a major legislative body, as EU lawmakers reached a provisional political agreement on Thursday. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have been debating the content of the EU’s AI Act and have agreed […] more…Google Sheets power tips: How to use pivot tables
One of the best ways to master Google Sheets — the powerful spreadsheet app that you use in a web browser — is to learn how to build and use pivot tables. To describe it very generally, a pivot table takes data from a group of cells in your spreadsheet and presents it in more […] more…From zero to Zanubis
A few weeks ago we stumbled upon a suspicious Android sample from a tweet from @malwrhunterteam which was only detected by four antivirus engines: Antivirus verdicts didn’t provide specifics about the malware family other than it might be either a banking trojan or spyware, so a first approach to continue the investigation is finding other […] more…Cyber Leader Calls for Nonpartisan Path to Securing the Vote
Those entrusted with securing the nation’s voting systems must remain nonpartisan as a myriad of complex and growing risks continue to threaten U.S. elections, one of the nation’s top cybersecurity officials said Saturday. read more more…APT annual review: What the world’s threat actors got up to in 2020
We track the ongoing activities of more than 900 advanced threat actors; you can find our quarterly overviews here, here and here. Here we try to focus on what we consider to be the most interesting trends and developments of the last 12 months. This is based on our visibility in the threat landscape; and […] more…JNUC 2020 opens with big news for Apple and Azure
Apple in the enterprise focused company, Jamf, kicked off its virtual JNUC conference today with a deluge of news and information for Mac, iPhone and iPad using enterprises. Apple and Microsoft together for work The show comes at a pivotal moment in the transformation of enterprise IT. Not only is work becoming virtual, but Apple’s […] more…More information
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