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Most businesses have a long-term vision and core strategic goals. But many struggle to make them a reality. The problem often arises because the strategic goals are so overarching and distant, that they aren’t focused on consistently among the day-to-day direction. Deeper cultural issues typically underly the problem. Often, there is no clear link between the people working on important projects and the business outcomes targeted. People may be toiling on tech projects to improve…

We’ve all heard about the Metaverse. And there’s no doubt it has certainly captured the attention of the world’s biggest companies: Facebook has changed its name to Meta, Hyundai has partnered up with Roblox to offer virtual test drives, Nike has bought a virtual shoe company and Coca-Cola is selling NFT’s there too. (Non-Fungible Tokens – think digital assets).   But if you are confused about exactly what this all means and most importantly, what the…

Image: Adobe Stock New research from Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) sheds light on a cyberespionage threat actor known as Seaborgium. Who is Seaborgium? Must-read security coverage Seaborgium is a threat actor that originates from Russia, tracked by Microsoft since 2017. This is a highly persistent threat actor who compromises companies and individuals of interest. In 2022, they have targeted over 30 organizations in addition to personal accounts of individuals. Based on technical information and…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published a new advisory warning of threat actors actively exploiting five different vulnerabilities in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS). The document was compiled in collaboration with the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) and explains how threat actors may be targeting unpatched ZCS instances in both government and private sector networks. The first of the discovered vulnerabilities (tracked CVE-2022-27924) is a high-severity vulnerability enabling an unauthenticated…

The official package manager for the Ruby programming language has announced it has started mandating multi-factor authentication (MFA) on at least the top-100 RubyGems packages. The firm made the announcement on Monday, saying it would begin enforcing MFA on owners of gems with over 180 million total downloads. “Users in this category who do not have MFA enabled on the UI and API or UI and gem sign-in level will not be able to edit…

Many privacy regulations — such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act — aim to protect consumers’ personally identifiable data from abuse, misuse and overuse. Yet personal data continues to be legally collected, aggregated, analyzed, packaged and resold. Information brokering has now become a revenue stream for many commercial organizations. The information broker industry has emerged to profit from brokering consumer data. Industry trade groups, like the Association of…