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American multinational technology company Microsoft has been hit by its second outage in two weeks. Striking the company on April Fool’s Day, the substantial cloud outage knocked Microsoft’s Azure cloud services, Teams, Office 365, and OneDrive offline. Skype, Xbox Live, and Bing were also impacted. News of the outage began emanating from Twitter users at around 5pm ET yesterday. The situation was confirmed by website DownDetector, which reported receiving thousands of notices about the outage from users of Office,…

Cybersecurity firm Trustwave has uncovered a security vulnerability in the popular website CMS, Umbraco. In a blog post on its website, Trustwave researchers outlined details of a privilege escalation issue which allows low privileged users to elevate themselves to the status of admin. The problem resides in an API endpoint that does not properly check the user’s authorization prior to returning results found to the application’s logging section. In the CMS, higher privileged users, i.e….

By Nicole Allen, Marketing Executive, SaltDNA. The sudden increase in remote working has ensured that ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) is once again a hot topic, as the workforce relies on a number of devices, including personal phones and laptops, to get their jobs done from home or the workplace. This raises the question of how companies can not only gain insight into their holistic technology ecosystem but also how they can handle these proliferating devices. Although remote…

But a growing list of tech companies, governments and open-source software groups are all attempting to tackle the problem, prompting some concerns about a lack of a standard approach that would make it possible to carry around just one pass. Plus, apps would need to pull and verify your vaccination records in an easy, safe and controlled format. And wide adoption would require the majority of countries, airlines and businesses to agree on one (or…

Cybersecurity platform provider ReliaQuest has announced two new senior appointments. Kara Wilson has been appointed to the ReliaQuest board of directors, whilst Alex Bender joins the company as its new chief marketing officer. Wilson brings more than 25 years of experience in driving go-to-market strategies for both large and medium companies along with startups, having previously helped to grow some of the most influential technology companies in the world including Okta, FireEye and Cisco. She…