Tag: office
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Worker distraction is on the rise. Digital employee experience (DEX) platforms can help
With the dramatic increase in remote work in the last few years, many of us are actually working longer hours, ricocheting between communication platforms, learning new systems on the fly, and struggling to fix our own tech issues.It’s all adding up to a new kind of burnoutIt’s also focusing renewed attention on the digital employee experience…
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HPE notifies employees of data breach after Russian Office 365 hack
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is notifying employees whose data was stolen from the company’s Office 365 email environment by Russian state-sponsored hackers in a May 2023 cyberattack. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hpe-notifies-employees-of-data-breach-after-russian-office-365-hack/
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UK Home Office silent on alleged Apple backdoor order
Blighty’s latest stab at encryption? A secret order to pry open iCloud, sources claim First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/02/07/home_office_apple_backdoor_order/
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North Korean APT Kimsuky Uses forceCopy Malware to Steal Browser-Stored Credentials
Tags: apt, attack, credentials, email, group, hacking, intelligence, korea, malware, microsoft, north-korea, office, phishing, spear-phishing, windowsThe North Korea-linked nation-state hacking group known as Kimsuky has been observed conducting spear-phishing attacks to deliver an information stealer malware named forceCopy, according to new findings from the AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC).The attacks commence with phishing emails containing a Windows shortcut (LNK) file that’s disguised as a Microsoft Office or PDF document. First…
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Top 3 Ransomware Threats Active in 2025
You arrive at the office, power up your system, and panic sets in. Every file is locked, and every system is frozen. A ransom demand flashes on your screen: “Pay $2 million in Bitcoin within 48 hours or lose everything.”And the worst part is that even after paying, there’s no guarantee you’ll get your data…
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OPM asks judge to dismiss federal workers’ lawsuit, files privacy assessment of email system
The Trump administration’s Office of Personnel Management wants a federal court to drop a lawsuit that alleges the agency illegally set up a new email server to sent government-wide messages. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/opm-asks-judge-to-dismiss-email-lawsuit-files-pia
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Youth activists protest Meta over mental health impacts
Protest outside Meta’s London offices marks launch of Mad Youth Campaign, an effort by activists to challenge the ways in which corporate power negatively shapes the conditions young people live under First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366618873/Youth-activists-protest-Meta-over-mental-health-impacts
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Musk’s DOGE effort could spread malware, expose US systems to threat actors
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, ceo, cio, computer, computing, control, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, email, exploit, governance, government, hacking, infection, infosec, international, jobs, malicious, malware, network, office, privacy, ransomware, risk, service, technology, threat, toolOver the past 10 days, an astonishing series of actions by Elon Musk via his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project has elevated the cybersecurity risk of some of the most sensitive computing systems in the US government. Musk and his team of young, inexperienced engineers, at least one of whom is not a US…
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What 2025 HIPAA Changes Mean to You
Tags: access, application-security, authentication, breach, business, cloud, compliance, control, cybersecurity, data, encryption, healthcare, HIPAA, identity, incident response, insurance, law, mfa, monitoring, nist, office, penetration-testing, privacy, risk, risk-analysis, service, strategy, threat, tool, vulnerabilityWhat 2025 HIPAA Changes Mean to You madhav Tue, 02/04/2025 – 04:49 Thales comprehensive Data Security Platform helps you be compliant with 2025 HIPAA changes. You are going about your normal day, following routine process at your healthcare organization, following the same business process you’ve followed for the last twelve years. You expect Personal Health…
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When Checks and Balances Fail: The State’s Role in Preserving Constitutional Order
Today, my Senator, Susan Collins, failed in her oath and duty to uphold the Constitution. She voted for the appointment of a traitor to head national intelligence, and is supporting someone for director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) who openly wants to dismantle the foundations of American government. She has… First seen…
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As DOGE teams plug into federal networks, cybersecurity risks could be huge, experts say
Little is known about how workers on Elon Musk’s federal government technology team are accessing sensitive systems at the Office of Personnel Management, the Treasury Department and elsewhere. Experts are warning of potentially massive cybersecurity risks. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/doge-opm-treasury-cybersecurity
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Nach Preiserhöhung: Microsoft entfernt VPN-Feature aus Office
Das Windows-Defender-VPN kann von Microsoft-365-Abonnenten kostenlos genutzt werden. Damit ist in Kürze Schluss. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/nach-preiserhoehung-microsoft-entfernt-vpn-feature-aus-office-2502-192995.html
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APT37 Hackers Exploit Group Chats to Deliver Malicious LNK Files
In 2024, South Korea witnessed an alarming surge in Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks, with the state-sponsored APT37 group emerging as a significant threat actor. Leveraging sophisticated techniques, the group targeted individuals and organizations through malicious Hancom Office HWP documents and LNK files distributed via K Messenger group chats. These attacks primarily aimed to evade…
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Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands returnoffice despite remote work pledge
That email chain could have been a 30-second chit-chat, says IT giant First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/01/31/dell_ends_hybrid_work_policy/
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NAO: UK government cyber resilience weak in face of mounting threats
The National Audit Office has found UK government cyber resilience wanting, weakened by legacy IT and skills shortages, and facing mounting threats First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366618552/NAO-UK-government-cyber-resilience-weak-in-face-of-mounting-threats
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Our Digital Footprints are Breadcrumbs for Mapping our Personal Behavior
The Government Accountability Office states that customers are usually unaware of the potential privacy risks and biases that arise from use of personal information. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/01/our-digital-footprints-are-breadcrumbs-for-mapping-our-personal-behavior/
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Scores of Critical UK Government IT Systems Have Major Security Holes
The National Audit Office warns of major gaps in cyber resilience across UK government departments First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/scores-critical-government-it/
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Threat of cyber-attacks on Whitehall ‘is severe and advancing quickly’, NAO says
Audit watchdog finds 58 critical IT systems assessed in 2024 had ‘significant gaps in cyber-resilience’The threat of potentially devastating cyber-attacks against UK government departments is “severe and advancing quickly”, with dozens of critical IT systems vulnerable to an expected regular pattern of significant strikes, ministers have been warned.The National Audit Office (NAO) found that 58…
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Lawsuit claims systems behind OPM governmentwide email blast are illegal, insecure
A pair of whistleblowers believe the office skirted the law by not conducting a privacy impact assessment for an alleged “on-prem” server used to send mass emails to federal employees and store information from responses. First seen on fedscoop.com Jump to article: fedscoop.com/opm-email-federal-workforce-lawsuit-server-privacy-security/
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Fernzugriff via Remote-Desktop-Protocol optimieren Weg vom Browser-Modell
Das Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ist für viele Unternehmen ein unverzichtbares Werkzeug geworden, insbesondere in Zeiten hybrider Arbeitsmodelle und des Fernzugriffs. Es ermöglicht den Zugriff auf Anwendungen und Office-Systeme, egal ob Mitarbeiter von zu Hause oder unterwegs arbeiten. Doch so nützlich RDP auch ist, bringt es Herausforderungen mit sich, die sowohl die Produktivität der Nutzer…
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UK eVisa system problems persist despite repeated warnings
Tags: officeTravellers are already having issues boarding UK-bound flights, while refugees have been left with no way to prove their immigration status in the UK, just two weeks after the Home Office transitioned to electronic visas First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366618163/UK-eVisa-system-problems-persist-despite-repeated-warnings
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Trump Has Had a Light Touch on Cybersecurity So Far
President Trump has made sweeping changes in his first days in office, but as of yet, he’s kept intact much of the government’s cybersecurity structure and policies, including the two executives orders President Biden issued at the beginning and end of his term. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/01/trump-has-had-a-light-touch-on-cybersecurity-so-far/
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10 top XDR tools and how to evaluate them
Tags: ai, attack, automation, business, cloud, computing, container, corporate, credentials, data, defense, detection, edr, email, encryption, endpoint, finance, firewall, google, guide, Hardware, iam, ibm, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, malware, marketplace, microsoft, mitigation, network, office, okta, open-source, organized, risk, security-incident, service, siem, skills, soar, software, spam, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, zero-dayLittle in the modern IT world lends itself to manual or siloed management, and this is doubly true in the security realm. The scale of modern enterprise computing and modern application stack architecture requires security tools that can bring visibility into the security posture of modern IT components and integrate tightly to bring real-time threat…
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Two ransomware groups abuse Microsoft’s Office 365 platform to gain access to target organizations
Two ransomware groups exploiting Microsoft 365 services and default settings to target internal enterprise users. Sophos researchers started investigating two distinct clusters of activity, tracked as STAC5143 and STAC5777, in response to customer ransomware attacks in November and December 2024. Threat actors used their own Microsoft 365 tenants and exploited a default Teams setting allowing…
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Doti AI Raises $7 Million Seed Funding for Instant Access to Internal Company Data
Doti’s platform uses AI to improve, automate, and streamline standard office and business processes across distributed and hybrid environments. The post Doti AI Raises $7 Million Seed Funding for Instant Access to Internal Company Data appeared first on SecurityWeek. First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/doti-ai-raises-7-million-seed-funding-for-instant-access-to-internal-company-data/
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Doti AI Raises £7 Million Seed Funding for Instant Access to Internal Company Data
Doti’s platform uses AI to improve, automate, and streamline standard office and business processes across distributed and hybrid environments. The post Doti AI Raises £7 Million Seed Funding for Instant Access to Internal Company Data appeared first on SecurityWeek. First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/doti-ai-raises-7-million-seed-funding-for-instant-access-to-internal-company-data/
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Gezielte Cyberangriffe: Bedrohungsakteure missbrauchen Microsoft 365
Sophos X-Ops hat eine raffinierte Angriffskampagne entdeckt, bei der Cyberkriminelle gezielt Unternehmen infiltrieren. Dabei nutzen sie Schwachstellen innerhalb der Office-365-Plattform aus, um entweder sensible Daten zu stehlen oder Ransomware zu platzieren. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/gezielte-cyberangriffe-bedrohungsakteure-missbrauchen-microsoft-365