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Security

1Password is looking to a password-free future. Here’s why

With phishing-based credentials theft on the rise, 1Password CPO Steve Won explains why the endgame is to 'eliminate’ passwords entirely.

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Security

Pen testing report: IT budgets should focus on entire security stack

With nearly 90% of companies reporting cyberattacks, pen testing budgets are on the rise, with cloud infrastructure and services a key focus area, according to a new report.

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Security

DLL sideloading and CVE attacks show diversity of threat landscape

Studies from Bitdefender and Arctic Wolf show that new tactics are using twists on concealment in social media and old vulnerabilities in third-party software.

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Tech & Work

Report: Stress will drive a quarter of cyber defenders out the door

There are too few cybersecurity experts to fill jobs, but a new study sees the crunch increasing through 2025 as cybersecurity experts head for the hills.

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Security

IBM: Most ransomware blocked last year, but cyberattacks are moving faster

A new study from IBM Security suggests cyberattackers are taking side routes that are less visible, and they are getting much faster at infiltrating perimeters.

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Artificial Intelligence

Salesforce offers 5 guidelines to reduce AI bias

The bias-reduction study guides companies in ways to build trust, safety and sustainability from their AI data stores and when to empower humans in the oversight of these models.

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CXO

Cisco CXO: Digital transformation means transforming customer outcomes

Cisco’s Chief Customer Experience Officer Thimaya Subaiya discusses low-power chips that will empower next-generation IoT, how data centers can reach net zero goals, zero trust and more.

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Security

Investigators uncover crypto scammers baiting ‘phish’ hooks on YouTube

A report reveals a new network of malefactors in the lucrative crypto fraud market using videos, channels and web apps.

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Tech & Work

What Twitter’s outage says about (over) zealous downsizing

The outage message that Twitter users got last week could be read as a warning for big tech firms looking to slash their IT workforce.

Security

Check Point’s annual cybersecurity event spotlights power of AI

The company showcased dozens of new security tools and services to detect and prevent malware, phishing, ransomware and other attacks, but AI took center stage.

For managed services providers, deploying new PCs and performing desktop and laptop migrations are common but perilous tasks. The adage “you’re only as good as your last performance” certainly applies. An MSP and its technicians can get everything right, complete a client’s complex cloud migrations, and perform remote work initiatives and proprietary business application upgrades, ...

Successful IT departments are defined not only by the technology they deploy and manage, but by the skills and capabilities of their people. IT workers must keep up to date with the latest technology trends and evolutions, as well as developing soft skills like project management, presentation and persuasion, and general management. Due to the ...

Managed services providers often prioritize properly configuring and implementing client network switches and firewalls. However, regularly reviewing and updating such components is an equally important responsibility. It’s essential to ensure clients understand the necessity of regularly auditing, updating and creating new backups for network switches and routers as well as the need for scheduling the ...

Karl Greenberg

1Password is looking to a password-free future. Here’s why

Pen testing report: IT budgets should focus on entire security stack

DLL sideloading and CVE attacks show diversity of threat landscape

Report: Stress will drive a quarter of cyber defenders out the door

IBM: Most ransomware blocked last year, but cyberattacks are moving faster

Salesforce offers 5 guidelines to reduce AI bias

Cisco CXO: Digital transformation means transforming customer outcomes

Investigators uncover crypto scammers baiting ‘phish’ hooks on YouTube

What Twitter’s outage says about (over) zealous downsizing

Check Point’s annual cybersecurity event spotlights power of AI

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