Month: June 2020
SaaS players want to ease creation of digital workflows
With the pandemic forcing businesses to leave the office and work from home, chances are many organizations have turned to cloud services like Box to share files and collaborate. SaaS vendors recognize that customers are moving online much faster due...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: VMware Cloud Director Flaws (CVE 2020-3956)
Advisory Overview VMware Cloud Director is potentially vulnerable to a remote code injection attack that would allow an attacker to view/modify databases and escalate privileges from organizational admin to system admin. SKOUT advises updating VMware Cloud Director to version 10.1.0...
Threat Spotlight: Form-based attacks
A new type of brand impersonation attack is disproportionately using Google-branded sites to trick victims into sharing login credentials. Making up 4 percent of all spear phishing attacks in the first four months of 2020, Barracuda researchers have seen steady detections through...
Tech Time Warp: Meet Charles Babbage, the father of computing
After celebrating the dads in your life on Father’s Day, consider raising a glass to Charles Babbage, the 19th-century Englishman known as the “Father of Computing.” An independently wealthy man, Babbage was able to indulge in his fascination in mathematics...
Cybersecurity takeaways from the pandemic
It’s been about two months, and there has been a seismic shift in cybersecurity and the workforce in general. Work-from-home was always a long pondered goal of environmentalists and sociologists, but for many it has remained only in the realm...
MSPs need to adjust rapidly to the changing SD-WAN landscape
The future of work in the wake of COVID-19 is most definitely hybrid. A survey of 600 IT decision makers published this week by Xerox finds that on average 82 percent of the workforce in organizations will have returned to...
Marketing engines for MSPs
As someone who has been working with MSPs and other tech-related organizations on their marketing needs for many years, I’m always struck by the number of people who say that they’re still finding the majority of their clients “the old...
This tool helps identify unused cloud infrastructure resources
Harness, a startup that has been concentrating on building a continuous delivery as a service offering, added a new wrinkle this week. It announced a way to track public cloud spending in real time to help control cloud infrastructure costs....
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise Vulnerabilities
Advisory Overview Six critical vulnerabilities were recently disclosed in SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise that could allow hackers to execute arbitrary code, expose passwords, and elevate privileges. SKOUT recommends updating SAP ASE to the latest version. Technical detail and additional information...
Pioneers in Tech: Ada Lovelace and the analytical engine
Many tech pioneers have a similar dossier: male, came of age in the late 1970s, dropped out of college, made millions building computers in their garage/dorm room/basement. Then, there’s Ada Lovelace: an 1800s female with a backstory suitable for a...
