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The education sector experienced a 44% increase in cyber-attacks when compared to 2021, with an average of 2297 attacks against organizations every week, according to Check Point’s 2022 Mid-Year Report. The research paper suggests that part of the appeal is the sheer number of personal details that threat actors can obtain by targeting organizations in this sector. “Academic institutions are currently sitting ducks,” said Deryck Mitchelson, field CISO at Check Point, commenting on the new data….

Oracle is continuing to lay off people in the US, just months after the company acquired healthcare data specialist firm Cerner for $28.3 billion and announced a first round of layoffs, according to published reports. The layoffs come as hiring for IT jobs slows due to worries about an economic downturn. In Oracle’s latest round of layoffs, the company cut 201 employees, including data scientists and developers, from its Redwood Shores office, according to reports…

Image: Google Cloud Next ’22 press release. Companies migrating to the cloud no longer choose their vendor strictly based on data storage capacities, performance and reliability. In the new era, cloud providers lure in organizations with built-in cloud innovations, services and solutions. And at this week’s Google Cloud Next ’22, the tech titan made one thing clear: It wants to lead the new era. From new partners and artificial intelligence-powered solutions to workspace innovations for…

Signal is phasing out SMS support from Android to enable it to focus on developing a more secure and reliable platform. Image: THAWEERAT/Adobe Stock Mobility must-reads If you’ve been relying on the Signal messaging app on Android for SMS communications, your access to the plaintext messaging feature in the app will end soon. In a bid to prioritize security and privacy, Signal has announced that it will soon phase out SMS and MMS messaging support…

By Stephen de Vries, Co-Founder and CEO of IriusRisk The application security world is known for friction between security and development teams. However, this tension can be eradicated through a development security strategy to bring developers and security architects together: threat modeling. Protection before it’s too late  Threat modeling is the act of conducting security analysis before a system is finalised, or even built, to detect weaknesses and vulnerabilities in the design of the system and…