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Last year, nearly three-quarters of global companies surveyed by integration and automation provider Boomi exceeded their cloud budgets, and in many cases, solving long-standing problems ranging from excess storage to excessive consumption of bandwidth remains elusive. .The findings come from a report co-published by Forrester Research, which surveyed 420 cloud decision-makers around the world. While two-thirds (65%) of respondents said they prioritize cloud cost management and optimization (CCMO) strategies early in the cloud development process, this rarely extends to proactive strategies at early architecture levels.Four in 10 respondents said they control costs during the solution architecture phase, while only 6%…
ReportApril 3, 2024Editorial DepartmentData breach/incident response The U.S. Cybersecurity Review Board (CSRB) criticized Microsoft for a series of security vulnerabilities that led to a data breach last year by a Chinese nation-state group called Storm-0558 against nearly 20 companies in Europe and the United States. Findings released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday showed that the intrusion was preventable and was successful due to “a series of avoidable mistakes by Microsoft.” “It identifies a series of Microsoft operational and strategic decisions that collectively point to a corporate culture that does not value enterprise security investments and…
Fish swim, birds fly, and streaming service prices rise. That’s (mostly) the way things are. After maintaining the same pricing for the Premium version for a long time, it looks like that will be the case in some countries as well.according to BloombergBy the end of April, in some markets such as the UK, Australia and Pakistan, the price of Spotify Premium’s individual plans will increase by about $1, and the price of family and two-person plans will increase by about $2. The report suggests the U.S. will see similar growth later this year.The higher fees are expected to offset…
ReportApril 3, 2024Editorial DepartmentBrowser Security/Session Hijacking Google said on Tuesday that it is experimenting with a new feature called “Device Binding Session Credentials” in Chrome (DBSC) helps protect users from malware stealing session cookies. The tech giant’s Chromium team said the prototype is currently being tested on “some” Google account users running Chrome Beta, with the aim of making it an open web standard. “By tying authentication sessions to devices, DBSC aims to disrupt the cookie theft industry, as compromised cookies will no longer have any value,” the company noted. “We believe this will significantly reduce the success rate of…
Are you tired of investing a lot of time and resources in product development only to find that your product doesn’t quite meet your users’ requirements?
If you haven’t been a part of the VR craze of the past few years, now is a great time to do so. The 128GB Meta Quest 2 is currently selling for $199 at Walmart, down from $249 — back to its all-time low price. Not only is this sale attractive, but it also comes with a $50 Meta Quest store credit. Amazon is offering the same 20% discount on Meta Quest 2, but it doesn’t include the extra points.Devendra Hardava/EngadgetThe Meta Quest 2 may not be the newest headset in its lineup, but it still has a lot of…
About nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercriminal group called “manipulator,” a massive web hosting network for phishing and spam delivery platforms. In January 2024, the operators implored the author to unpublish a previous story about their work, claiming that the group had turned over a new leaf and become legitimate. But New research shows that even though these fools have improved the quality of their products and services, they’re still terrible at hiding their illegal activity. In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity published a brief article about a team of brazen manipulators, noting that they openly operate hundreds of websites…
Even if 2024 brings burnout, overwhelm, budget cuts, hiring freezes, waves of layoffs, and more, there will still be few regulations in the U.S. to prevent employers from responding by leveraging employees at their desks or at home on their smartphones and laptops ask.(Of course, France showed us all, introducing a right-to-disconnect policy back in 2017. Those pesky, totally right French people…)This week, California Assemblyman Matt Haney introduced AB 2751, the “Right to Disconnect” proposal. If passed, every employer in California would accurately regulate a person’s work hours and ensure they would not be required to respond to work-related communications…
ReportApril 3, 2024Hacker NewsCyber Security/Penetration Testing Attack surface management (ASM) and vulnerability management (VM) are often confused, and while they overlap, they are not the same. The main difference between attack surface management and vulnerability management is their scope: vulnerability management examines a list of known assets, while attack surface management assumes you have unknown assets, so it starts with discovery. Let’s look at both in more detail. What is vulnerability management? At its simplest level, vulnerability management is the use of automated tools to identify, prioritize, and report security issues and vulnerabilities in digital infrastructure. Vulnerability management uses automated…
Salesforce has launched the beta version of Einstein Copilot for Tableau, a new feature designed to help users in various roles and functions explore data with the help of AI. Businesses tend to distribute data insights in reports and dashboards created by expert analysts. Dashboards built in Tableau are visual and interactive, allowing users to adjust scope by exploring predefined guided paths. But sometimes users can’t find the answer to their question in the dashboard. They need to be able to explore data on their own without deep analytical training. With Einstein Copilot for Tableau, users can delve deeper into…