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The company made a slew of announcements at its annual conference this week that will roll out throughout the year. At its Cisco Live conference this week, the company announced everything from a redesign of its internet infrastructure to a new network-as-a-service offering. Cisco also made a strong push toward a passwordless future to improve security. Redesigning internet infrastructure Cisco announced plans to help communication service providers and web-scale companies strengthen their networks. Building networks…

A former intelligence analyst who was once a United States military service member has pleaded guilty to obtaining classified information and passing it to a reporter. Daniel Everette Hale served as an enlisted airman in the US Air Force from July 2009 to July 2013. After language and intelligence training, the 31-year-old from Nashville, Tennessee, was assigned to work at the National Security Agency (NSA) and deployed to Afghanistan as an intelligence analyst. It was…

A cyber-bully has been fined for sending hateful messages to a professional wrestler before she took her own life. Japanese wrestler and Netflix reality show star Hana Kimura was just 22 years old when she killed herself on May 23 last year by inhaling toxic gas in her Tokyo home. Kimura became a target for internet trolls after the airing of an episode of Terrace House: Tokyo in which she was shown arguing with a housemate who had…

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…

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to find out how America’s national security and intelligence agencies are using artificial intelligence (AI). The ACLU said it made the request out of concern that AI was being used in ways that could violate Americans’ civil rights.  The request follows the March 1 release of a 16-chapter report containing recommendations on how AI, machine learning, and associated technologies should be used by the Biden…