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Preventing a cyberattack is more cost effective than reacting to one - but many boardrooms still aren't willing to free up budget.

Many businesses still aren't willing to spend money on cybersecurity because they view it as an additional cost – and then find they have to spend much more cash recovering from a cyber incident after they get hacked.

Cyberattacks like ransomware, business email compromise (BEC) scams and data breaches are some of the key issues...

to install their malware on PCs

Cybersecurity researchers warn about hacking groups increasingly using a simple technique that seems to work.

Nation state-backed hacking groups are exploiting a simple but effective new technique to power phishing campaigns for spreading malware and stealing information that's of interest to their governments. Cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint say advanced persistent threat (APT) groups working on behalf of Russian, Chinese and Indian interests...

Hackers are targeting this Microsoft Windows Installer flaw, say security researchers

Hackers can exploit the flaw to give an attacker administrator rights on a compromised system.

Hackers have already created malware in a bid to exploit an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows Installer.

Microsoft released a patch for CVE-2021-41379, an elevation of privilege flaw in the Windows Installer component for enterprise application deployment. It had an "important"...

Over 300,000 Android users have downloaded these banking trojan malware apps, say security researchers

Cybersecurity researchers at ThreatFabric detail how password-stealing Android banking trojans were disguised as QR code readers, fitness monitors, cryptocurrency apps and more.

Over 300,000 Android smartphone users have downloaded what turned out to be banking trojans after falling victim to malware that has bypassed detection by the Google Play app store.

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The new challenge is making sure it's not the worst of both worlds

Research from Google Workspace finds that the next challenge is keeping both in-person and remote team members engaged.

In a new report from Google Workspace, hybrid work means anything between full in-person work with limited time flexibility and full remote work with complete time flexibility.

The debate over all in-person vs. all remote work is mostly over and neither side won. Hybrid it is, according to two new...

14 tactics to use during a ransomware negotiation

Security researchers analyzed 700 incidents to understand the economics of these threats as well as what bargaining tactics work.

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Be polite during negotiations, ask for more time and always request a test file for decryption. Those are a few of the best practices for dealing with a ransomware attack, according to a new analysis of 700 incidents.

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: How should your business approach buying tech and components?

There's no clear end in sight for the chip shortage plaguing the globe, and that means it's time to strategize, especially if you're an OEM.

You would have to be trying pretty hard to be unaware of the ongoing chip shortage that has left vehicles unassembled, computers unshipped, consumers concerned and OEMs panicking.

Triggered by COVID-19-related supply chain interruptions, chip manufacturers around the world are...

Ransomware actors have found a cunning way to bypass your endpoint protection

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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new ransomware group, which after failing to directly encrypt their victim’s files, copied them into a password-protected archive, before encrypting the password, and deleting the original files.

Sharing insights into the threat actor, which identifies itself as “Memento Team,” Sean Gallagher from the Sophos MTR’s Rapid Response Team writes that the...

Microsoft: Windows 11 rollout is going so well, we're making it available to more PCs

But Microsoft has also blocked Windows 11 upgrades for PCs with an incompatible Intel driver.

Windows 11: Everything you need to know

Microsoft says it's seeing a "high rate of positive update experience" for Windows 10 users upgrading to Windows 11, so it's ramping up availability again.

Microsoft is growing more confident in the Windows 11 rollout, which began on October 5 and was accelerated...

Microsoft makes it into the top 10 fastest supercomputers in the world.

A Microsoft Azure supercomputer dubbed 'Voyager-EUS2' has made it into the rankings of the world's 10 fastest machines.

Microsoft's supercomputer, with a benchmark speed of 30 Petaflops per second (Pflop/s) is still well behind China's Tianhe-2A and the US Department of Energy's IBM-based Summit supercomputer, but it's the only major cloud provider with a supercomputer ranked in the top 10 in the high-performance...