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Whether companies are fulfilling their promises of decreasing carbon emissions for the sake of the environment or for increasing profits and appeasing the public is up for interpretation. Nonetheless, companies are taking the necessary steps to go green. According to a survey from tech analyst firm Gartner, 87% of business leaders aim to increase their company’s sustainability measures. And according to the surveyed executives, 80% say they’re going green because of pressure from customers....

But not every would be Mia Hamm is so lucky. Amateur soccer, and particularly youth soccer, is undergoing a major referee shortage owing in part to the pandemic and in part to the awful treatment refs tend to endure from cranky and over-agitated parents. The position tends to be low pay, and lots of former refs have simply had enough. Without some kind of ref presence, competitive soccer, which requires judgment calls best left to a neutral arbiter, is all but impossible....

ExpressVPN is one of the most popular VPNs on the market for good reason. It’s earned high praise for its lightning-fast speeds, user-friendly service, and its strong commitment to user privacy. Even when a VPN provider has a great reputation, we try to avoid blindly trusting any company to protect our security and privacy. After all, we don’t always know what goes on behind the scenes. That’s why we love when VPN providers embrace transparency and take real steps to truly earn our trust....

Unfortunately, some of the reporting about the chatbot is itself confusing. In the rush to relate every new detail about the chatbot in a way that will grab attention, reporters are applying dramatic language that doesn’t inform and in fact obscures what is going on with AI in a way that is a disservice to the public. Also: These experts are racing to protect AI from hackers. Time is running out A prime example came with a publication by The New York Times of a first-hand report by writer Kevin Roose of a two-hour session with Bing in the beta....

The Chinese Government Knows Everything China has long been accused of secretly collecting privacy-sensitive information from friends and foes from all over the world. To do so, they use a variety of Chinese-owned firms and channels to source and share their data. For President Trump, this is one of the reasons to advocate a ban on TikTok in the US. Unless it ends up in the hands of an American company – with Oracle currently being the likely candidate....

Phone Records and Location Data Targeted According to Cybereason, a US-based Security firm, the hackers stole phone records and location data from at least five major telecom companies. The report names Soft Cell, Naikon, and Group 3390 as some of the groups behind the attack. Lior Div, the CEO of Cybereason, said that the hackers managed to gain total control of the networks they penetrated. The hackers exploited security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Corporations’ Exchange servers to gain access to the telecom companies’ internal systems....

The network and application delivery firm on May 4 disclosed a critical authentication bypass affecting the iControl REST component in multiple versions of its Big-IP software. The bug, tagged as CVE-2022-1388, had a CVSSv3 severity score of 9.8 out of 10 in part because of its ease of exploitation. Within days of F5’s advisory, security researchers saw potential attackers scanning for vulnerable F5 system admin interfaces exposed on the internet....

Taking a conference call in your car may sound kind of miserable – and Cisco insists the integration isn’t intended to encourage in-car meetings. “I don’t think people are going to go to their car and take a meeting in the car because they have this feature,” Javed Khan, Cisco SVP and GM at Webex, said to ZDNet. At the same time, he said, the new norms of hybrid work mean that “collaboration needs to be enabled in every possible place....

The new vice president in charge of the firm’s LAC operations is Juan Manuel Gómez, who will oversee sales, marketing, service and operations across the countries in the region. Gómez replaces Marcelo Giampietro, who had joined Citrix as general manager for Americas from SAP in April 2021. The executive left the company a few months later, in November 2021. A Citrix veteran, Gómez joined the company 14 years ago, before holding marketing and sales roles at companies such as Latin carrier Avianca, as well as Kimberly-Clark, L’Oreal and Unilever....

Gartner estimates that over 85% of organisations will embrace the cloud-first principle by 2025, with over 95% of new workloads being deployed on cloud-native platforms (up from 30% in 2021). Over the next few years, the analyst firm predicts that cloud revenue will exceed non-cloud revenue for ‘relevant enterprise IT markets’. “Anything non-cloud will be considered legacy,” Govekar noted. SEE: Having a single cloud provider is so last decade What are the headwinds that are pushing these clouds across the landscape of business IT?...

“After a slow start, Europeans now recognize cloud for its support for new apps and also as affordable compute and storage for existing ones,” it said. While European businesses have undergone a major shift to cloud in pursuit of speed, scalability and innovation, the top concerns over using public cloud were security and privacy around data protection and disaster recovery (32%), and application security and protection (31%). Lesser concerns were lack of internal governance over public cloud storage (26%), lack of performance (23%), and compliance (21%)....

On Monday, the cloud service provider said that Project Pangea, available to eligible communities, will cut out the high costs of securing bandwidth in areas that have not been able to leverage any existing telecommunication infrastructure to build out web access potentially due to their location or the expense required. Communities – including local groups and non-profit organizations – that apply and are accepted to Project Pangea will be able to leverage Cloudflare’s network to “build their own telecom infrastructure [and] find a free and sustainable way to connect people who rely on the internet for everything from communication to education and economic development....

The San Francisco-based DevOps tool provider said in a blog post that the new uploader will be shipped as a static binary executable suitable for Windows, Linux, Alpine Linux, and macOS. The uploader, used in the same manner as the existing Bash uploader, is used to push coverage data and updates to products during development cycles. The uploader is currently in the Beta stage and so is yet to be fully integrated, but Codecov says that “most standard workflows that are currently accomplished with the Bash Uploader can be accomplished with the new uploader....

As President Joseph Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity says, we must provide “a purchaser with an SBOM for each application.” Codenotary Community Attestation Service wants to help you with that. It is a free, open-source notarization and verification service. Its parent company Codenotary promises it will enable businesses to easily create an SBOM, attesting to the provenance and safety of their code. The Community Attestation Service provides end-to-end protection for software development and workloads....

If you’re savvy about leveraging credit card perks, you know you could earn cashback or travel miles when you pay with a Visa card at Costco. However, the branded Costco Anywhere Visa® Business Card by Citi amps up the rewards with 2% cashback for store purchases and 4% back on gas (including Costco’s). This Costco Anywhere Visa® Business Card review will explore everything you need to know about the branded store club – and whether it’s worth applying for....

Total sales for the period came in at a steady AU$9.76 billion, where its supermarkets business pitched in AU$8.62 billion and its liquor business AU$874 million. The remainder was made up by its express business. Breaking that down further, supermarkets ecommerce sales, unsurprisingly, grew 48% with sales penetration of 9% and liquor ecommerce jumped 72% with a 4.5% sales penetration. These results were similar to the Q1 results reported by supermarket rival Woolworths on Wednesday....

McAfee made the revelation in its annual mobile threat report, which details the threat landscape, providing information on the most prominent malware and types of malicious apps in 2022. McAfee said powerful AI tools allow cybercriminals to build credible-looking fake apps and carry out scams. For example, criminals are using ChatGPT to eliminate spelling mistakes and other errors that usually indicate a phishing SMS/email. “With the introduction of ChatGPT, the authors of those phishing emails no longer have to worry about correct grammar and spelling, ChatGPT can easily write a grammatically correct email for you,” the report states....

The company helps organizations analyze their cybersecurity “across technical and non-technical teams” while also providing tools to help improve cyber training. Immersive Labs is now marketing a new “Cyber Workforce Optimization” platform that will strive to provide a slate of services related to identifying cybersecurity gaps in an enterprise. “From crisis management with executives, to secure software development amongst engineers and ensuring compliance in legal teams, the platform will use data insights to understand where skills are required and inject role specific training,” the company said of their services in a statement....

In June, Ukrainian police arrested six suspects in 20 raids across Kyiv and other towns, seizing computers, technology, cars, and roughly $185,000. The Ukrainian National Police worked with law enforcement in South Korea on the raid, now known as Operation Cyclone. Interpol, an inter-governmental organization focused on facilitating coordinated activities between police agencies worldwide, said last week that Interpol’s Cyber Fusion Centre managed the operation in Singapore. Trend Micro, CDI, Kaspersky Lab, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Group-IB contributed threat intelligence through the Interpol Gateway project, together with police from Ukraine, South Korea, and the United States....

How does the Qualys platform prevent threats from penetrating to an organisation’s database? And how does it handle false positives? The Qualys Cloud Platform has performed more than 3 billion scans in the past year. Its vulnerability scans, the most difficult type of scan, consistently exceed Six Sigma 99.99966% accuracy, the industry standard for high quality. This level of accuracy creates a foundation for strong security and reliable compliance that enables you to efficiently zero in on potential risks before you get attacked....