Essentially, Medigate is a cyber security company focused on connected medical devices. We identify medical devices in clinical environments as our sole focus. Medical devices are being increasingly attacked. Whether targeted or untargeted, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in incidents revolving around these devices. The Wannacry attack was a prime example of how healthcare can be disrupted by such attacks, whether its ransomware or health information theft, connected medical devices are very vulnerable assets....

On Wednesday, the company – recently rebranded from Facebook – said that the two new areas of research revolve around scraping bugs and scraped databases containing user information. Dan Gurfinkel, Security Engineering Manager, said that the inclusion of valid scraping bugs and exposed data sets in a bug bounty program are, to the firm’s knowledge, an “industry first.” Meta/Facebook has been involved in numerous incidents around user data scraping. The most well-known is the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the data of up to 87 million users was scraped and shared without their consent....

This four-year-long class action lawsuit put the spotlight on Meta’s handling of user data. While the company has denied any wrongdoing, it has agreed to the record-breaking settlement, saying it’s “in the best interest” of the parties involved. If the settlement amount is approved, it would be “the largest recovery ever achieved in a data privacy class action and the most Facebook has ever paid to resolve a private class action,” the document filed with the court said....

Based on a screen capture of the Azure status page from August 30 by BleepingComputer.com, it seems even more Azure services initially were impacted by the Ubuntu issue. While AKS and ACA are mentioned as being affected by the outage today, yesterday, the Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Monitor, Azure Sentinel and the Azure VMware Solution also were affected, that screen shot indicates. Microsoft officials said the offending Ubuntu updates all have been removed until further investigation is completed....

Invitations that require only an email address and no need to sign up, sign in or install Teams to participate in a meeting. Google Calendar integration (coming “soon”) in addition to Outlook Calendar integrationMeeting tools like meeting lobby, virtual backgrounds, Together mode, live closed captions, and live reactions New small-business group-chat template (coming “soon”) to desktop and web Microsoft is making Teams Essentials available for purchase directly from Microsoft and also through several of the company’s cloud partners....

According to the original leak, Microsoft officials were not intending to replace the legacy Win32 Outlook client with the new Outlook until some much later date. I’ve reached out to Microsoft to see if I can get a comment (or no comment) about Monarch’s status. No word back yet. Update: Not too surprisingly, a company spokesperson said the company had no comment.

Dynamics 365 Connected Store, a service for making retail spaces more efficient, is now going to be known as Dynamics 365 Connected Spaces. There’s a new bundle Microsoft has dubbed the “Microsoft 365 Customer Experienced Platform,” which brings together existing Dynamics 365 Marketing, Customer Insights and Microsoft Advertising services. And by adding first-party voice services to Dynamics 365 Customer Service platform, Microsoft now has something it’s billing as an all-in-one digital contact center....

The PrintNightmare flaw is a major security risk for enterprises, where print spoolers are used on Windows machines. Microsoft considered it serious enough to rush out a patch last week, before its usual Patch Tuesday update. SEE: Best printers for your home office The PrintNightmare bug is being tracked as CVE-2021-1675 and CVE-2021-34527. One of them is a remote code execution flaw and the other is a local privilege escalation flaw....

With features spanning group video and audio meetings, chats and messaging, Teams has become a big app that heavily consumes CPU and graphics as well as energy. For the past year, Microsoft has been working “Teams 2.0”, which has included moving from the Angular to React HTML/JavaScript frameworks, and switching from Electron for building the Teams desktop app for Mac and Windows to WebView2, a part of Chromium Edge for embedding web code in a native app....

Microsoft’s April 2020 update for Teams was largely about automating controls and settings to make using its app easier when on calls and meetings. In January, Microsoft announced a “high fidelity mode” in Teams that allowed users to control when not to suppress music if it was actually what the user wanted another user to hear. The machine learning (ML) noise-suppression feature considers all non-speech signals picked up by a mic to be noise, which is handy for those joining a meeting from a cafe, but not desired for a situation like a guitar lesson....

I also have a very powerful 2018 i7 Mac mini, which is my main desktop video editing machine and a 2015 i5 laptop. Both are able to run current software, so I’m sticking with them (although the laptop is going to my wife) for as long as they’re supported. I generally like to run my production Macs about half an OS generation behind, just because it usually takes half a year or so until the growing pains of the new release are overcome with bug fix updates....

About the Incident MGM Resorts International is a giant US casino and hotel chain, with resorts in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Detroit. It also owns properties in China and Japan and is in the process of building a new resort in Dubai. The publishing of MGM guest records on a hacking forum this week was first reported by ZDNet. When questioned by ZDNet, MGM reportedly acknowledged that it had been a victim of a data breach last year....

Whether through password sharing or sloppy password habits, many people still leave their personal and professional accounts vulnerable, and it is a huge risk for companies and home users alike. Is it OK to use your browser’s built-in password management tools? New York, NY-based digital identity firm Beyond Identity spoke with 1,015 people in the US to learn more about their password-making strategies and how they generally conduct themselves in regards to online safety....

Huawei’s term for this confluence of devices and software-plus-services is the Super Device – a ‘better together’ concept akin to that of the superorganism in biology. In its pre-MWC briefings, Huawei highlighted examples of screen sharing and drag-and-drop file transfer involving phones, PCs, tablets and monitors in mainstream productivity, collaboration and creative scenarios. Huawei’s Super Device update for its PCs launched on 27 February with the latest version of its PC Manager software....

“You know, I’m ready for it. I’m tired of doing my dishes and laundry,” Jeff Cardenas, CEO of Apptronik, tells ZDNET. Austin-based robotics company Apptronik is working with NASA to create a 5-foot 8-inch, 160-pound, general-purpose humanoid robot named Apollo. The robot is being designed to assist with tasks in space, the commercial sector – and, most interestingly, the home. Apollo will be equipped to carry out a range of tasks in different environments with the mission of shouldering burdens that humans simply don’t need or want to do....

Netflix had been expecting to lose two million subscribers this quarter. Addressing the question what drove the better-than-expected results, the streaming company’s CEO Reed Hastings said: “If there was a single thing, we might say Stranger Things”. SEE: The 5 best Netflix alternatives: Binge-watch elsewhere In the first three months of 2022, Netflix recorded its first ever quarterly decline in paid subscribers since 2011. It lost 200,000 paid subscribers and predicted it would lose two million in the next quarter....

Second quarter 2021 non-GAAP net income per diluted share came to 66 cents on revenue of $308.8 million, an increase of 10.3 percent from the year prior. The company posted an operating margin of 7 percent. Analysts were expecting earnings per share of 71 cents on revenue of $314.84 million. “Worldwide supply chain constraints… such as component shortages, increased freight costs and transit times, and factory closures due to COVID-19, led to a perfect storm of factors that held back our revenue number and saw us fall short of our operating margin goals,” CEO and Chairman Patrick Lo said in a statement....

Neuralink said in a blog post that it is “committed to working with animals in the most humane and ethical way possible.” It also offered a timeline of its animal testing activities since 2017, covering a 2.5-year partnership with the University of California, Davis, and from 2020, when the company opened its own in-house vivarium. Neuralink is responding to allegations by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), which filed a complaint last week with the US Department of Agriculture for alleged violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act....

New Rules Loosen Certain Restrictions Last week the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced the final rules for Unmanned Aircraft Systems, commonly known as drones. The rules loosen restrictions on night time drone operation and allow flights over people and moving vehicles. However, there will still be certain restrictions, depending on the level of risk to people on the ground. Previously, drone operators needed special permission from the FAA to, for example, operate in populated areas....

The EU is now in the stages of rewriting history again. New laws such as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the Digital Services Act (DSA), the AI Act, and the Data Act will throttle competition responsibilities and offer a fairer data framework relating to Big Tech firms, said Schaake. GDPR Was a Breakthrough Privacy Moment The EU GDPR was a milestone in the protection of data, which was instated four years ago, Schaake said....