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On Wednesday, Check Point Research (CPR) said that as of now, over 2,100 victims have been detected worldwide in a new campaign, with the majority resident in the United States, Canada, and India – although evidence of the malware has been found in 111 countries. Dubbed ZLoader, the malicious code has been used in the past to deliver banking Trojans and has been closely connected to multiple ransomware strains. The new campaign is thought to have started in November 2021....

Introverts can find fulfilling and lucrative MBA jobs in finance, information technology, and business. If you consider yourself an introvert, explore some of the MBA jobs in which introverts can shine. You can learn how to put your independent, reflective nature to work for you. Best MBA jobs for introverts While social interaction is common for positions held by MBAs, the best MBA jobs for introverts play to their strengths....

CISA released its own message urging “users and organizations to review Microsoft’s mitigations and workarounds to address CVE-2021-40444, a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Windows.” Microsoft said the vulnerability was first discovered by Rick Cole of the Microsoft Security Response Center, Haifei Li of EXPMON, as well as Dhanesh Kizhakkinan, Bryce Abdo and Genwei Jiang of Mandiant. “Microsoft is aware of targeted attacks that attempt to exploit this vulnerability by using specially-crafted Microsoft Office documents....

A phishing-happy hacking crew linked to North Korea’s armed forces has been using trojanized open-source apps and LinkedIn recruitment bait to hit tech industry employees, according to threat analysts from Microsoft’s advanced persistent threat (APT) research group. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC, pronounced ‘Mystic’) has seen the group using PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, Sumatra PDF Reader, and the muPDF/Subliminal Recording software installer for these attack since late April, according to MSTIC’s blogpost....

Update: And here are the answers, courtesy of a Microsoft spokesperson. Yes, the Cloud for Sovereignty is part of the Industry cloud stable, joining the aforementioned bundles. But no, Azure Government is not considered a Microsoft Industry cloud. Here’s the reason: “The Azure Government portfolio has been built to meet the specific requirements of the U.S. government. Azure Government achieves these controls through service instancing and personnel citizenship validation, while MCFS (Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty) leverages encryption, confidential computing, and audit rights to meet the very differing needs of the U....

In pursuit of achieving its own ambitious plan, Microsoft has also been helping customers to achieve their sustainability goals. Last July, the tech giant announced the public preview of its Cloud for Sustainability, a SaaS solution that organisations can use to record, report, and reduce emissions across their enterprise. Now, Microsoft said it will be making the cloud bundle generally available on June 1. “Organisations need more accessible, centralized data intelligence to make the high-stakes decisions that are required right now to address complex issues, weighing both business and ESG [environmental, social, and social governance] criteria to direct capital toward investment opportunities that balance growth and impact,” Microsoft said in a blog post....

Microsoft launched its Azure Space initiative last October. Azure Space was developed by the tech giant to position Azure in the space and satellite-related connectivity and compute part of the cloud market. Azure Space Australia’s operations are based in Adelaide’s Lot Fourteen and is headed up by former US Air Force colonel Lynn McDonald. On Thursday, the tech giant said it inked an agreement with Nokia and the South Australian government to build communications, connectivity, and advanced data processing solutions featuring satellite imagery, AI analytics, and 5G-based technology that could be used for various applications such as rail safety, mine automation, defence, and public sector use cases....

Especially now, as the likes of Mark Zuckerberg try to escape a world that doesn’t like them to a new Meta-world where no one will recognize them. There’s something about a real handshake, real eye contact and a real glass of Cabernet Sauvignon that makes business not only run more smoothly but also be (slightly) more pleasurable. Since the pandemic began, many employees – especially in areas such as sales and HR – have been denied reality....

(A screenshot from a Microsoft video.) That’s the American way. We get up every day; we’re excited about our lives, our jobs and our bank balances. At least that’s what we say – because a positive attitude is vital to being, or appearing to be, a success. Yet is this everything? And has the pandemic incited us to wonder whether we’re really so excited about working at all? Even if we’re the boss....

The full list of features included in Office 2021 is here. Microsoft will be making the visual updates to the apps in Microsoft 365 available starting October 5. Microsoft’s officials said they’d be adding consumer Teams features to both Microsoft 365 and Office 2021 during October and November so that users can run Teams on Windows 10 and macOS. 

Also: Best Windows 10 laptop in 2021 With this next release, Microsoft has a formidable task ahead of itself. Many IT pros don’t want Windows to change much because of user retraining and increased help requests. That means tweaks need to be made in ways that don’t cause the kind of pushback and, ultimately, failure, that happened with Windows 8. At the same time, Microsoft is looking to compete with both Apple and Chromebook makers with this release, and the needs and desires of users running those two types of devices are quite different....

Microsoft announced its Teams apps for meetings feature for the desktop last November and updated its roadmap for the feature at its virtual Build 2021 conference in May. Teams apps for meetings lets developers build apps that work across the full “lifecycle” of a meeting. Now, it’s not just the desktop version of Teams that supports this functionality, but it’s also on iOS and Android. SEE: Top 100+ tips for telecommuters and managers (free PDF) (TechRepublic) The apps in meetings feature allows developers to customize Teams by integrating in-house apps into workflows around a Teams meeting....

Viewing 98 people simultaneously on a video call sounds like overload, but Microsoft has handled it with a new “paging” feature on the Large Gallery mode. When users are in Large Gallery mode – when there are more than 49 people on screen – navigation controls appear below the Large Gallery, which can be used to view or engage with more participants. SEE: Top 100+ tips for telecommuters and managers (free PDF) (TechRepublic) The choice to divide the 49-person view into two pages does seem to make sense, given there’s already quite a mental load of viewing 49 people on a screen – and doubling the amount would likely result in video feeds too tiny for most screens....

On Friday, the researcher went public with their findings, which contained one vulnerability fixed in iOS 14.7 and three unpatched vulnerabilities. The fixed bugs involved Analyticsd and allowed apps to access logs containing medical information, device usage information, application crashes, and information on device accessories. The unpatched vulnerabilities included the gamed service not properly checking game-center permission and allowing access to the Core Duet database that contains all contacts from Mail, SMS, iMessages, and some attachments; Apple ID email, full name, and authentication tokens allowing access to access at least one apple....

Discovered by Armis researchers, the vulnerability can be used to bypass existing security mechanisms in PLCs to hijack the devices and potentially impact wider industrial setups. The authentication bypass vulnerability, dubbed Modipwn, has been assigned as CVE-2021-22779. Without authorization, it is possible for attackers to abuse undocumented commands and obtain full control over one of these chips, overwriting memory, leaking a hash required to take over secure connections, and executing code – which, in turn, can impact the security of workstations that manage the PLCs....

The new Moto Go Stylus will replace the 2020 model, updating its internals and design. The latest model ditches a Qualcomm processor in favor of a MediaTek Helio G88, ups the screen size from 6.4 to 6.8-inches, adds a 90Hz refresh rate, and boosts the main camera from 48-megapixels to 50-megapixels. Perhaps more importantly, the battery size goes from 4,000mAh to 5,000mAh, with Motorola promising two days of use between charges....

Don’t be lulled into a false sense of security by the belief that creating a longer, more complex, harder-to-guess password will somehow make you safer online. You can create a password that is so long and complex it takes you five minutes to type, and it will do nothing to protect you if the service where you use that password stores it improperly and then has their server breached. It regularly happens....

On Thursday, Twitter general manager Kayvon Beykpour announced that he was leaving the company after seven years, claiming that CEO Parag Agrawal “asked me to leave after letting me know he wants to take the team in a different direction”. “I hope and expect that Twitter’s best days are still ahead of it …with the right nurturing and stewardship, that impact will only grow,” Beykpour added. Additionally, Twitter’s revenue and product lead Bruce Falck was also fired....

Whatever kind of work you do, whether it’s business or data analysis, the odds are good that you will need to use Microsoft Excel at some point. From keeping track of invoices to complex data analytics, Excel can do it all, given you have the right skills. The only question is how to get those skills, and right now, there’s an attractive option for self-starters: A 14-course master class in Excel is available from Skill Success, and right now, you can literally name your price to get it....