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Cyberattacks on medical centers are one of the most despicable forms of cyber threat there is. For instance, on October 28th, 2020, a cyberattack at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington VT led to 75% of the scheduled chemotherapy patients being turned away. Many of us have friends and loved ones who have had to undergo intensive treatments, and the last thing we want in this situation is for their critical care to…

The average time taken to fix high severity application security flaws has increased by ten days in just a month, according to the latest data from NTT Application Security. The security vendor’s AppSec Stats Flash report for August offers a broad view of the current state of application security across various verticals. Most important is the data that details how quickly or otherwise organizations are at closing the window of exposure (WoE) between a patch…

More than a third (35%) of connected device owners in the UK do not take additional security measures to protect their smart home devices and rely solely on inbuilt security features. This is according to findings from the 2021 Norton Cyber Safety Insights Report: Special Release – Home & Safety, which examined consumers’ at-home online behaviors. The UK portion of the study revealed a worrying lack of security hygiene for smart devices among British consumers. Only…

A configuration issue with a popular Microsoft development platform has exposed tens of millions of sensitive customer records, including those containing COVID-19 information, according to researchers. Microsoft Power Apps enables “citizen developers” to create mobile and web-based apps for their businesses. However, a team from UpGuard found that the portal for the platform was configured to allow public access in many cases, exposing at least 38 million records. The issue stems from the Open Data…

Introduction In 2020 Microsoft reported over 258 million monthly commercial users of its Office 365 productivity suite. For decades Microsoft has been powering business with software like Outlook, Word, and Excel. As technology and connectivity have improved, so has functionality and user requirements. Now, over 75 million people use Microsoft Teams every month for virtual meeting experiences. Consumers of Microsoft technology have moved away from self-managed instances of services like Microsoft Exchange for email communication,…