Category: pro
Seiko confirms thousands of user accounts were breached in cyberattack
Famous watchmaker Seiko has confirmed that the cyberattack it suffered in July 2023 was indeed a cybersecurity incident carried out by the infamous BlackCat ransomware gang. In an incident report published on October 25 (the third one in the series), the company said that its investigation confirmed 60,000 “items of…
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Many SMBs aren’t seeing security as a priority, for some reason
For a third of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) thinking about migrating their infrastructure to the cloud, security is not a strategic priority, new research has claimed. A new Amazon Web Services report surveying more than 800 C-suite executives, vice presidents, and directors, from global SMBs, discovered ober a third…
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Google is building a subsea cable linking the US to Australia
Google Cloud has announced plans for new subsea cables connecting the US, Australia, and other island nations in between. Announced in collaboration with the Australian government, the South Pacific Connect initiative, which will see the tech giant and the Australian government work with partners including Fiji International Telecommunications, Office of…
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Windows 11 is about to get a lot more secure for SMB users everywhere
Microsoft is introducing new features in the next version of Windows 11 which should make it a lot more secure for some users. In an update posted on the Microsoft blog, Microsoft Principal Program Manager Ned Pyle announced that Windows 11 will let admins mandate SMB client encryption for all…
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Downtime could be one of the worst things to affect your business – here’s why
Major legacy infrastructure challenges are causing IT decision-makers to report negative impacts on their businesses, a new report by Hitachi Vantara has claimed. Its study of more than 200 North American and European IT leaders, which explores subscription- and consumption-based ITaaS models, found that more than half (56%) of businesses…
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Huawei debuts first 5.5G router ever – it’s tiny and available from next year, but chances are that you’ll never be able to buy it
Huawei’s LampSite X is a router unlike any other, in that it uses the 5.5G networking standard – which the firm dubs 5G Advanced – to bring high-speed networking to large internal compounds like airports and shopping malls. Although 5G has taken public networking to a new level, there are…
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