Palo Alto Networks Announces Expansion of Management Team

Palo Alto Networks Announces Expansion of Management Team

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today announced the expansion of its management team, with Amit Singh moving into the new role of chief business officer and BJ Jenkins joining the company in the role of president. The appointments are effective immediately. Palo Alto Networks has reported notable momentum over the last financial year, with the business benefiting from customers adopting products across its…

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Give it Away to Get it Back  – Cisco Blogs

Give it Away to Get it Back  – Cisco Blogs

Shoveling sand at a construction site in rural Mexico during a giving back activity with Habitat for Humanity in 2009 is my first fond memory of the creative freedom I have while working at Cisco. Yes, technology and connecting the unconnected are what we Cisconians are known for, but giving back is an equally important part of who we are – and our culture. Each year, Cisco gives employees 40 hours to give back in…

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Salesforce Communities Could Expose Business-Sensitive Information

Salesforce Communities Could Expose Business-Sensitive Information

Numerous publicly accessible Salesforce Communities are misconfigured and could expose sensitive information, says research published today. A Salesforce Community site lets customers and partners interface with a Salesforce instance from outside an organization. For example, they can open support tickets, ask questions, manage their subscriptions and more. According to Varonis, anonymous users can “query objects that contain sensitive information such as customer lists, support cases and employee email addresses.” The research team explains in a…

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NCSC Announces First Cohort for New Cyber Startup Program

NCSC Announces First Cohort for New Cyber Startup Program

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has unveiled the first five tech companies that will take part in its new startup program. The NCSC For Startups initiative, first announced in June, will support innovative cybersecurity firms to develop products that will help protect critical areas of the UK’s economy and society from online harms. The NCSC is collaborating with innovation company Plexal to run the program. It is the successor to the highly successful NCSC Cyber Accelerator initiative, which helped more…

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The ‘Itanic’—Intel’s ill-fated Itanium processor—finally sinks

The ‘Itanic’—Intel’s ill-fated Itanium processor—finally sinks

After two decades of failure and endless jokes, the Intel Itanium is officially no more. Intel has finally stopped shipping its doomed-from-the-start 64-bit processor, two years after saying it would cease shipments. Really, the end came some time ago. The last Itaniums were the 9000 series “Kittson,” which shipped in 2017. It’s a bane of technology firms to support technologies they would much rather ditch but can’t due to customer investment, and for years Intel…

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Using the Linux cut command to grab portions of lines from files

Using the Linux cut command to grab portions of lines from files

One surprisingly easy command for grabbing a portion of every line in a text file on a Linux system is cut. It works something like awk in that it allows you to select only what you want to see from files, enabling you to pull fields (regardless of the delimiter used), characters or bytes. To check on cut, you can ask about its version like this: $ cut –version cut (GNU coreutils) 8.32 Copyright (C)…

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Chinese Espionage Group UNC215 Targeted Israeli Government Networks

Chinese Espionage Group UNC215 Targeted Israeli Government Networks

Chinese espionage group UNC215 leveraged remote desktop protocols (RDP) to access an Israeli government network using stolen credentials from trusted third parties, according to research published today. Mandiant, part of cybersecurity firm FireEye, analyzed data gathered from their telemetry and the information shared by Israeli entities in collaboration with the authorities. The data revealed multiple concurrent operations against Israeli government institutions, IT providers and telecommunications entities beginning in January 2019. FireEye has published the findings…

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Google Unveils Privacy Changes for Young People

Google Unveils Privacy Changes for Young People

Google says it will make things safer online for young people. The Silicon Valley search giant said videos uploaded by 13- to 17-year-olds to YouTube, which is owned by Google, will be private by default, which means the videos can only be seen by those who post them and those with permission to view them. Google also says anyone under 18 or their parent or guardian can request removal of that child’s images from the…

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The Keys that Unlock Multi-Cloud Success – Cloud Blog – VMWare

The Keys that Unlock Multi-Cloud Success – Cloud Blog – VMWare

Bola Rotibi, Research Director of Software Development at CCS Insight published an article titled “The Keys that Unlock Multi-cloud Success.” Below is an excerpt, published with permission. How VMware Cloud customers are achieving multicloud excellence Understanding the importance of good support should be the first step to any multicloud journey. There are four considerations that companies embarking on a multicloud strategy shouldn’t ignore. The first is that cloud adoption is on the rise, accelerated by…

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