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The Razor’s Edge, a podcast series that examines “IT Services for the New Way to Work,” is produced by CIO.com in partnership with HP Inc. In the series, HP’s technology experts provide unique insights into the challenges associated with digital transformation and discuss how innovative, cloud-based services, solutions, and software can help you plan and prepare for what lies ahead. The Razor’s Edge is hosted by Leif Olson, distinguished technologist at HP Inc. He’s joined…

By Douglas Kinloch, VP of Business Development, PACE Anti-Piracy The expression “shift left” is rapidly becoming mainstream in discussions about IT and Software security, but what does it actually mean? To most, it’s the principle of thinking about security earlier in the planning stage for any system or network, or in the designing and development of software applications. But is it far enough? Endpoint security has been the be-all and end-all of network security for…

Google this week announced the reversing of its recent decision to remove the app permissions list from the Google Play Store for Android. In tweets published on July 21, the Android Developers team stated that “privacy and transparency are core values in the Android community. We heard your feedback that you find the app permissions section in Google Play useful, and we’ve decided to reinstate it.”  Earlier in the month, the company had removed the permissions section…

This week, it came to light that gaming platform Roblox was breached via a phishing/social-engineering attack that led to the theft of internal documents and the leaking of them online in an extortion attempt. The hacker has posted documents on a forum that purport to contain information about some of Roblox’s most popular games and creators, according to Motherboard. Additionally, some of the documents include individuals’ personally identifiable information. But Roblox is hardly alone — it’s just…

Ukrainian radio stations were hacked this week by threat actors to spread fake news about President Volodymyr Zelensky’s health, according to Ukraine’s security officials. A music program on “at least one” out of TAVR Media’s stations – one of Ukraine’s largest radio networks – was interrupted by the false reports just after midday on July 21. The so-far unidentified hackers broadcasted reports that Zelensky was hospitalized “in an intensive care ward” and that he was temporarily deputizing his presidential…