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If businesses are going to successfully navigate the road ahead they’ll need to focus on these security problems and attack vectors. Image: iStock/sdecoret A new report from Forrester is giving enterprises a path forward out of the pandemic with a serious security warning: There are five major problems, and five attack vectors, which could slow post-pandemic progress in 2021. The five greatest threats to businesses in 2021 will be different from those in 2020, but…

A former caseworker in Australia who was investigated over an alleged child sexual abuse offense accessed the sensitive data of vulnerable children for a year after leaving their job.  The caseworker had been contracted by Victoria’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) between April 2016 and September 2017 to work for a government program that aims to stop young people entering out-of-home care.  An OVIC (Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner) report found that while employed by…

How to block users from setting up their own cron jobs on Linux Length: 1:56 | Mar 15, 2021 Jack Wallen shows you how to gain a bit more security on your Linux servers by blocking users from adding cron jobs. Source link

The fire at the OVH datacenter in Strasbourg also impacted the command and control infrastructure used by several nation-state APT groups and cybercrime gangs. OVH, one of the largest hosting providers in the world, has suffered this week a terrible fire that destroyed its data centers located in Strasbourg. The French plant in Strasbourg includes 4 data centers, SBG1, SBG2, SBG3, and SBG4 that were shut down due to the incident, and the fire started in SBG2…

Cyber-criminals’ illegal activities have been disrupted by a severe fire at the Strasbourg data centers of one of the largest web-hosting providers in the world.  The fire began at 00:47 on March 10 in a room of data center SBG2, which belongs to OVHcloud. SBG2 was completely wiped out in the blaze, which also destroyed four rooms of data center SBG1 and caused a shutdown of the servers in SBG3 and SBG4.  It took over 100 firefighters working…

What is probably the best open source password manager on the market has added a new feature that will make using the tool even better. Image: Jack Wallen The developers of the Bitwarden password manager are always looking to improve their software. When their PR guys reached out to me last week to let me know of a new feature, you can bet I was all ears. Said feature isn’t a deal maker or breaker,…

A lawsuit accusing Google of collecting data from users who are browsing the internet in “incognito mode” will go ahead. The suit, brought against the tech giant in June 2020, alleges that even when consumers turn off data collection in Chrome, their personal data is gathered by other Google tools. According to the complaint, “Google tracks and collects consumer browsing history and other web activity data no matter what safeguards consumers undertake to protect their data…