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The company reported the incident to the Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) on Thursday (14), saying that it “promptly activated all security protocols” and that it has been gradually restoring its operating environment and working towards resuming normal business as soon as possible. Porto Seguro did not disclose any further details in relation to the type of attack it has suffered but noted that so far, no data leakage had been identified in relation to the company or its subsidiaries, customers or partners, including any personal data....

Codecademy does not provide a way for students to interact with instructors, but there is a community forum where you can get help from other users. Each lesson has its own thread in the forum, and there is a link from the lesson to the forum thread to make it easy to find the answers to your questions if you have trouble with a lesson. You might be wondering, “Is Codecademy free?...

Since 2017, New York-based Rodo has provided an online marketplace for consumers to buy and lease new vehicles from local car dealers. “We have dealerships who show their inventory. We have consumers who come to our app or website, and they’re able to look for vehicles and see pricing and then place an order on the vehicle and have it delivered to their home,” Rodo CEO Nathan Hecht told ZDNet....

Both CentOS Linux forks are completely free for use and are community-based. But, if you need help running either one, it’s available for a price. Started by CentOS co-founder and Rocky Linux founder Gregory Kurtzer, CIQ is now officially offering support services for Rocky Linux. According to Kurtzer, CIQ will be a one-stop resource for Rocky Linux users. It delivers enterprise support and services for businesses and organizations ranging from the smallest of businesses to enterprise-scale companies....

Making investment decisions can be an overwhelming task, with many variables affecting how you choose to allocate and diversify your assets, which is key to the success of your investments. Also: How to use ChatGPT to write Excel formulas For this reason, portfolio management is a task many people seek expert advice on. Lucky for you, the study results show that you can rely on ChatGPT to assist you with your portfolio management needs....

“Virtual currency-related business activities are illegal financial activities,” the People’s Bank of China said in a notice posted to its website on Friday afternoon. They slammed cryptocurrency for “disrupting economic and financial order” and facilitating “illegal and criminal activities” like gambling, fraud, pyramid schemes, money laundering and theft. Also: Bitcoin and 11 more cryptocurrencies you need to know The notice explicitly names Bitcoin, Ether and TEDA, noting that they do “not have the same legal status as legal currency....

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United States Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER) have released a joint advisory to tell admins to patch VMware’s Horizon and Unified Access Gateway (UAG) servers running vulnerable versions of Log4j. VMware’s UAG give employees remote secure accesses to Horizon virtual desktops and apps. Both VMware products were vulnerable to the Log4Shell flaw, CVE-2021-44228, which was disclosed by Log4j maintainer the Apache Software Foundation in December....

One of the key features that Basic Authentication or “Basic Auth” doesn’t support is multi-factor authentication (MFA), which is one of the best protections against identity and password attacks. CISA’s other reason for federal civilian agencies to switch to Modern Auth immediately is that MFA is a requirement under Biden’s cybersecurity executive order 14028 of May 2021, which requires agencies to implement MFA. SEE: Phishing gang that stole millions by luring victims to fake bank websites is broken up by police CISA urges all organizations to make the switch before October 1, which is the day Microsoft will start to switch off Basic Auth tenant by tenant across the world....

Earnings per share were $2.48, up 22%. Wall Street was predicting Microsoft would come in at $50.9 billion for its fiscal second quarter, with profits of $2.31 a share. This was the first time that Microsoft passed $50 billion in a quarter, officials said during its earnings report on January 25. The company executed strongly across all its product groups. Office commercial products and cloud services were up 14%, with Office 365 commercial revenues up 19%....

Customers will be able to order over 250 grocery items via the Wing app, including bread, fresh produce, snacks, convenience meals, health care items, kitchen essentials, and even toilet paper. There will be no minimum spend or delivery fee. The pilot will initially be available to some customers based in Crace, Palmerston, Franklin, Harrison, Mitchell, Giralang, and Kaleen. It will operate from 8am to 4.30pm on weekdays and 9am to 4pm on weekends....

The company filed paperwork with the Attorney General offices in California and Maine, notifying both that the information of 2,747 employees was involved in the attack. The pots and pans manufacturer reported more than $128 million in sales in 2021. In notification letters sent to victims, the company said the attack began “on or around October 25, 2021” and involved driver’s licenses, passports, Permanent Resident Cards and information regarding immigration status, among a host of sensitive information....

Ouch! That’s a lot more bytes. But, Thousand Eyes, a network monitoring company, found that despite this flood of traffic, Internet Service Providers (ISP)s, Content Delivery Networks (CDN)s, and public clouds have kept the bits moving smoothly on the internet superhighway. Using its measurements of network performance metrics such as packet loss, latency, and jitter, ThousandEyes found that, despite a 63% rise in global internet disruptions from January to March 2020 with still 44% more failures in June compared to January, the internet is doing well....

In almost 300,000 cases each year, U.S. surgical patients develop a harmful or potentially deadly infection linked to their procedure. Those infections can happen in virtually any hospital under any doctor’s care, drastically altering a patient’s recovery. On average, a surgical site infection (SSI) can extend a hospital stay by up to 10 days and increase the chances of having to be readmitted to the hospital later by up to four times....

Experts like Digital Shadows Sean Nikkel told ZDNet that what makes Cring interesting is that so far, they appear to specialize in using older vulnerabilities in their attacks. “In a previous incident, Cring operators exploited a two-year-old FortiGate VPN vulnerability to target end-of-life Microsoft and Adobe applications. This should be a wake-up call for system owners everywhere who are using end-of-life or otherwise unsupported systems that are exposed to the internet at large,” Nikkel said....

Nansen is a blockchain analytics platform that analyzes 100M+ labeled wallets and their activity on Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, and many other Level 1 and Level 2 blockchains. Today, Nansen released its first State of the Crypto Industry Report, covering notable trends and insights across the cryptocurrency, NFT, and DeFi markets over 2021. We caught up with Nansen Co-Founder and CEO Alex Svanevik to discuss the report’s findings, highlighting statistics and movement within key sectors of the blockchain industry as well as an outlook for 2022....

DarkOwl, the cybersecurity firm that uncovered the scam, notes that the EU Digital COVID Certificate program and most EU hospitals have stringent cybersecurity measures in place to protect user data. But hackers that are allegedly part of a gang called Xgroup are offering to add non-vaccinated people to the national COVID-19 vaccine registers that feed into the EU database, asking victims for a trove of personal data under the guise of theoretically adding it to the EU Digital COVID Certificate program....

The ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance is working with CISA on the effort alongside the Incident Command System for Industrial Control Systems (ICS4ICS) and more than 50 other cybersecurity companies, universities and corporations. The groups will be incorporating FEMA’s Incident Command System framework for response structure, roles, and interoperability, according to a statement from ISA. Deloitte, Dragos, Ford Motor Company, Fortinet, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, KPMG, Nozomi Networks, Pfizer, Tenable, CyberOwl and Idaho State University are just a few of the organizations involved in the ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance....

This is frustrating to talented tech professionals who want to keep their skills up to date or explore new areas. That’s the word from a survey of more than 700 tech professionals conducted by Pluralsight, which finds that 48% of respondents have considered changing jobs because they are not given sufficient resources to develop tech skills. A majority, 75%, agree that their organization’s willingness to dedicate resources to developing their tech skills affects their plans to stay with the organization....

First, the company unveiled the Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager with Transparent Snapshots, which Dell Technologies APJ data protection solutions general manager Lucas Salter touted as a solution designed specifically to protect VMware virtual machines at scale, without disruption or latency issues. “Over the years, several approaches have attempted to overcome the issue of latency and business disruption during virtual machine backups, but all of them require compromises around latency, cost scale, performance, and complexity,” he told media during a briefing....

The company delivered the best third quarter in its history with revenue of $28.4 billion, up 21% from a year ago, with earnings of $3.9 billion, or $4.87 a share. Non-GAAP earnings were $2.37 a share. Analysts were expecting Dell to report third quarter revenue of $26.82 billion with non-GAAP earnings of $2.18 a share. Dell’s client solutions group revenue was $16.5 billion in the third quarter, up 35% from a year ago....