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Today, human resources (HR) professionals are tasked with identifying, developing, managing, and retaining a talented workforce while also adhering to legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements. Human capital management (HCM) software can help HR professionals accomplish their objectives and improve HR processes across the entire business. “A human capital management system implies that you’re able to engage workers more, deliver a better employee experience to them, and hopefully you have the predictive analytics to catch problems…

People who study technology value creation ceaselessly argue which tech term of art is least illuminating and most irksome. Is it digital transformation (the phrase that has launched a thousand consultancies and as many failed strategies)? Is it cloud computing? Is it the ridiculously overhyped and inexplicably under-explained 5G? Or is it the recently coined metaverse? My point here isn’t to poke fun at today’s buzziest tech terms, but to point out that the language,…

Open dialogue, education, hiring, and strategic thinking are just some of the ways top tech companies are improving their diversity and inclusion efforts. Diversity and inclusion efforts in the workplace have evolved from mostly talk to a steady walk in the last two years, and data shows they’re as critical to a business’s success financially as they are culturally. According to research from McKinsey, diversity helps organizations improve innovation and financial performance, and helps end…

The head of GCHQ, Jeremy Fleming, has praised a new government unit tasked with countering Kremlin disinformation campaigns. Speaking at the Australian National University in Canberra yesterday, Fleming argued that President  Putin had massively miscalculated in his invasion of Ukraine. Russian soldiers are now “refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and even accidentally shooting down their own aircraft,” he revealed. However, Ukraine’s social media savvy President Zelensky offers a counter message of hope…

A shocking 70% of EMEA organizations have no insider risk strategy despite employees directly or indirectly causing most data security incidents over the past year, according to Imperva. The security vendor commissioned Forrester to interview over 150 security and IT professionals in the region as part of a wider study: Insider Threats Drive Data Protection Improvements. It found that insider threats caused 59% of incidents impacting sensitive data in the past 12 months. This follows a previous Imperva…

A leading Spanish provider of business process outsourcing (BPO) services has admitted that a recent ransomware attack cost it tens of millions of dollars. Telefonica company Atento describes itself as one of the “top five” customer relationship management (CRM) and BPO providers globally, with a particularly strong base in Latin America. However, in October last year, it revealed a “cyber-attack” on its Brazilian subsidiary’s IT systems. At the time, the firm claimed to have “quickly identified” the threat, isolating…

Throw open the windows and let in some fresh air. It’s time for spring cleaning. And that goes for your digital stuff too. Whether it’s indeed spring where you are or not, you can give your devices, apps, and online accounts a good decluttering. Now’s the time. Cleaning them up can protect your privacy and your identity, because when there’s less lying about, there’s less for hackers to scoop up and exploit. The reality is…

Throw open the windows and let in some fresh air. It’s time for spring cleaning. And that goes for your digital stuff too. Whether it’s indeed spring where you are or not, you can give your devices, apps, and online accounts a good decluttering. Now’s the time. Cleaning them up can protect your privacy and your identity, because when there’s less lying about, there’s less for hackers to scoop up and exploit. The reality is…

Last week, I attended the NotSoSecure Advanced Web Hacking training. While there were plenty of interesting topics taught, one that caught my attention was Out-of-Band (OOB) Data Exfiltration using DNS. Back in 2018, NotSoSecure published an Out of Band Exploitation (OOB) CheatSheet. In that document, they cover methods by which you can exfiltrate data. One of these uses files written to disk and multiple DNS queries to send large chunks of data. cmd /v /c…