Ransomware (27 percent) Insider threats are often overlooked in favor of tools to protect from external threats, noted Morey Haber, CTO and CISO at BeyondTrust, maker of privileged account management and vulnerability management solutions in Carlsbad, Calif. However, we can t underestimate the insider threat risk, he told TechNewsWorld. When we think of insider threats, we often imagine disgruntled employees seeking revenge on their former employers business, he explained. In reality, a vast majority of these threats are most often caused by honest mistakes such as clicking on malicious links or opening phishing emails. Either way, insider threats can be very difficult to detect, and pose a threat that businesses struggle to address, he added.
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Jun 9, 2021 4:00 AM PT
A configuration error in the systems of a content delivery provider knocked out numerous websites and apps around the globe Tuesday.
The provider, Fastly, which supports brands like CNN, The Guardian, the New York Times, Hulu, Reddit, HBO Max and Spotify, experienced the outage at about 5:49 a.m. Eastern time in the U.S. and began to recover at 6:39 a.m.
According to National Public Radio, during the outage visitors trying to access CNN.com received the message Fastly error: unknown domain: cnn.com. At the New York Times and UK government s website, an Error 503 Service Unavailable notice appeared, along with the line Varnish cache server. Varnish is a technology used by Fastly.
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Jun 2, 2021 4:00 AM PT
More than 25 million work-from-home jobs could be created in non-technology industries in the coming years, according to the operator of a global marketplace for freelance workers. For the first time, companies in industries like manufacturing, agriculture and mining recognized that many of their professional services jobs did not need to be done on-site, maintained Upwork in its Not Just Tech: Remote Freelancing Across Industries report. This opens up opportunities for not only people to do remote work, but for people to do remote freelance work for these companies, it noted.
Apple introduced a new version of its iMac desktop and a powerful upgrade of its iPad Pro tablet at an online event Tuesday. Both are based on Apple s M1 chip. Ordering for the new iMac starts on April 30, with shipments starting in the second half of May. TechNewsWorld spoke with several analysts to get their reactions to the these and other Apple products hitting the market in the coming weeks.
Apple introduced a new version of its iMac desktop and a powerful upgrade of its iPad Pro tablet at an online event Tuesday. Both are based on Apple s M1 chip. Ordering for the new iMac starts on April 30, with shipments starting in the second half of May. TechNewsWorld spoke with several analysts to get their reactions to the these and other Apple products hitting the market in the coming weeks.