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Enterprise mobility 2023: UEM meets DEX

February 15, 2023 admin Enterprise Applications, enterprise mobile management, mobile application management, Mobile Device Management, Security, small and medium business, system management, Unified Endpoint Management

If there was ever any doubt about the future of unified endpoint management (UEM) as a key component of enterprise mobility strategies, the now-permanent shift to hybrid and remote work models has sealed the deal. UEM has become a critical part of enterprise efforts to manage this complex environment.

Forrester Research’s 2022 Business Technographics Infrastructure Hardware Survey shows that 28% of infrastructure hardware technology decision makers will be investing in UEM over the next 12 months. “This is in line with previous years, so we continue to see stable growth in the UEM market,” says Andrew Hewitt, senior analyst at Forrester.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2023 Edition

February 14, 2023 admin cve-2023-21529, cve-2023-21706, cve-2023-21707, cve-2023-21715, cve-2023-21716, cve-2023-21823, cve-2023-23376, dustin childs, immersive labs, internet explorer 11, johannes ullrich, kevin breen, Latest Warnings, Mandiant, Microsoft Office, microsoft patch tuesday february 2023, sans internet storm center, Security Tools, Time to Patch, trend micro zero day initiative

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:01:41 +0000

Microsoft is sending the world a whole bunch of love today, in the form of patches to plug dozens of security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. This year’s special Valentine’s Day Patch Tuesday includes fixes for a whopping three different “zero-day” vulnerabilities that are already being used in active attacks.

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How to use Apple’s advanced iCloud security tools

February 14, 2023 admin apple, Cloud Computing, iOS, MacOS, Mobile, Security, small and medium business

Apple recently rolled out new iCloud security features that could help protect mobile professionals when they’re on the road. The features include better iCloud data security, improved iMessage security, and more.

Here is how to use these new iCloud protections.

Secure your digital assets

No one should doubt that protecting personal or enterprise data has become more important than ever. Apple introduced Lockdown Mode for iCloud in 2022, following this up with even more protections in December and, most recently, introducing free privacy and security sessions in Apple retail stores in 2023.

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The best Android password managers

February 13, 2023 admin Android, Mobile Apps, Mobile Security, privacy

Protecting your online accounts is more important now than ever — and in spite of some recent high-profile hacks, relying on a third-party password manager is still the easiest and most effective way to ensure your most important credentials remain secure.

Why? It’s simple: Reusing passwords puts you at a heightened risk for hacking. If someone discovers your password at just one website — via any sort of breach, be it large-scale or targeted — they can then use that same password to crack into your accounts at countless other places. It happens all the time.

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U.S., U.K. Sanction 7 Men Tied to Trickbot Hacking Group

February 9, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, adam meyers, christina svechinskaya, CrowdStrike, dyre, Group-IB, ilya sachkov, Intel 471, kaspersky lab, michael debolt, Ne'er-Do-Well News, ransomware, Ruslan Stoyanov, Sergey Mikhaylov, trickbot, u.s. department of treasury, vitaly "bentley" kovalev, wizard spider

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 20:23:58 +0000

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “Trickbot,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. The U.S. Department of the Treasury says the Trickbot group is associated with Russian intelligence services, and that this alliance led to the targeting of many U.S. companies and government entities.

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KrebsOnSecurity in Upcoming Hulu Series on Ashley Madison Breach

February 7, 2023 admin A Little Sunshine, abc news studio, ashley madison breach, Hulu, the ashley madison affair, the wrap, wall to wall media

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:16:16 +0000

KrebsOnSecurity will likely have a decent amount of screen time in an upcoming Hulu documentary series about the 2015 megabreach at marital infidelity site Ashley Madison. While I can’t predict what the producers will do with the video interviews we shot, it’s fair to say the series will explore tantalizing new clues as to who may have been responsible for the attack.

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Qualys now supports macOS in its cloud security tools

February 7, 2023 admin apple, MacOS, Mobile Device Management, SaaS, Security

Qualys, sometimes described as one of the pioneering SaaS vendors, has bent with the times to begin offering Mac support within its cloud security offering.

A pioneer in SaaS goes Mac

Since it launched in 1999, Qualys has traditionally offered its services to PCs, mobile devices, and cloud-native applications. The company’s original 2000 product, QualysGuard, was distinguished as one of the first to market vulnerability management tools.

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Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed in France

February 5, 2023 admin antti kurittu, hack the planet, htp, julius kivimäki, Lizard Squad, Ne'er-Do-Well News, ryan cleary, vastaamo psychotherapy center, zeekill

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2023 16:14:13 +0000

Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for more than 22,000 patients online, was arrested this week in France. A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimäki had been in hiding since October 2022, when he failed to show up in court and Finland issued an international warrant for his arrest.