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By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Not too long ago, many CIOs might have had to wrestle with a chief financial officer who viewed enterprise IT as a utility. To use a household metaphor, a CFO might be sorely tempted to save money if budgets were tight by lowering the thermostat on cold days. Now technology has become such an indispensable tool to drive revenue or remove costs that CIOs are just as…

Whenever CIOs talk about using low-code tools to enable citizen development, a recurring theme is how to ensure appropriate governance of the applications produced. Microsoft has heard them loud and clear, and at its Ignite 2022 show in Seattle this week, it introduced a range of new governance capabilities and other enhancements for its Power automation platform. It also previewed new management capabilities for automated workloads in its Entra Identity governance tool, new compliance reporting…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, Botnets, Brazil, China, Data loss, Infostealers, and Loaders. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending Cyber…

FormBook is the most prevalent malware in the wild worldwide, and Vidar, an infostealer, has entered the top 10 list in eighth place for the first time following a fake Zoom campaign. The new data comes from Check Point Research (CPR), which shared with Infosecurity its September 2022’s Most Wanted Malware report earlier today. According to the new figures, XMRig, an open-source CPU software used to mine Monero cryptocurrency, is currently in second place, while the advanced AgentTesla…

Microsoft published its October 2022 Patch Tuesday bulletin yesterday, which showcases fixes for an actively exploited Windows vulnerability alongside 83 other flaws. Of the 84 vulnerabilities fixed in yesterday’s update, 13 are classified as ‘Critical’ as they alternatively or jointly allow privilege elevation, spoofing or remote code execution. As for the others, 69 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate. Further, this month’s Patch Tuesday fixed two zero-day vulnerabilities. The first zero-day is a Windows COM+ Event…