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One day in 2020, most office workers went home and stayed home, many of them for over two years now. Work from home (WFH) employees kept businesses running. Acceptance—often grudging–of WFH by C-suites, record-low unemployment, and fears of pandemic resurgences now mean that WFH will probably become work from anywhere (WFA) plus return to office (RTO) for the foreseeable future.  Yet, the success of WFH comes with increased cybersecurity risks: Employee-owned IT assets (hardware, networks,…

Global healthcare organizations (HCOs) experienced a 94% year-on-year surge in ransomware attacks last year, with almost twice as many electing to pay their extorters, according to new data from Sophos. The security vendor commissioned Vanson Bourne to compile its report, The State of Ransomware in Healthcare 2022, from interviews with 381 IT pros in 31 countries. It revealed that two-thirds of HCOs were hit by ransomware last year, up from just a third in 2020….

When Catherine Luelo installed a new reservation system while an executive at WestJet Airlines Ltd., the change in technology inadvertently knocked the airline’s entire commercial website down for days. That bumpy implementation might have been a harsh lesson, but it helped teach Luelo the skills to navigate large technical system implementations, communicate the risks involved in systems changes, and prepare an entire organization for major technological shifts. [ Lisez la version française : « Catherine…

Quand elle était cadre chez WestJet, Catherine Luelo a supervisé l’installation d’un nouveau système informatique de réservation. Résultat? Le changement a causé la fermeture du site de la compagnie pendant des jours. Cette expérience a été une dure leçon, mais lui a permis d’acquérir les compétences requises pour gérer le déploiement de vastes systèmes; et pour communiquer les risques liés à ce genre d’opérations partout dans une organisation – pour que tous soient fin prêts…

Hybrid working and cloud migration during the course of the pandemic has led to a surge in DNS-related attacks, with application downtime and data theft a major consequence, according to IDC. The analyst’s 2022 Global DNS Threat Report is sponsored by security vendor efficientIP and compiled from interviews with over 1000 global organizations with more than 500 employees. The report revealed that 88% of organizations suffered DNS-related attacks over the past year, at an average…

Hungarian police are this week claiming to have dismantled a major organized crime gang responsible for laundering tens of millions of euros. Supported by Europol, the Budapest Metropolitan Police raided 24 homes in early May, interrogating 16 suspects and formally arresting five, who have now been placed in pre-trial custody. Officers also seized funds in 32 countries across Europe, Australia and South America, along with €140,000 ($150,000) in cash, a “high-end vehicle,” large quantities of…