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Microsoft held its Connect conference today and announced at the event are Visual Studio 2017, SQL Server v.Next for Windows and Linux, Visual Studio for the Mac, and that Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation as a platinum member.

Microsoft has announced a slew of new features and capabilities for Teams and Viva. The company says that these improvements are aimed at helping to “reduce stress, modernize training, and rebuild culture for those on the frontline.” For IT Admins, Microsoft has unveiled some updates coming to the device management experience to allow frontline workers…

Microsoft’s newest Surface device, the Surface Pro X, may look familiar on the outside but inside its brand new from the ground up. But with a new chip, new version of Windows, and a new form factor is it ready for the first-line worker or should you wait for a revision first?

VMware unveils EVO:RAIL, vCloud Air, vRealize Suite, and a host of other cloud and virtualization products and services at VMworld 2014 this week.

Aidan Finn discusses what Azure Containers can do and how they can be used and managed in Azure.

Security researchers have exposed a new supply chain attack that targeted entities across Asia, with a particular focus on Hong Kong. An unidentified hacking group, named Carderbee, employed an ingenious tactic — exploiting legitimate software — to infect around 100 computers with the PlugX/Korplug backdoor. According to the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, the hackers hijacked…

Back in August, LastPass announced that its systems were compromised in a security incident. Now, LastPass CEO Karim Toubba disclosed that the threat actors managed to copy encrypted passwords and other data stored in customer vaults. In a blog post published yesterday, LastPass revealed that hackers accessed customer data such as names, telephone numbers, email…

Cybersecurity company Mandiant has discovered that hackers are using a new technique to target enterprise networks. The researchers warned that threat actors exploit multifactor authentication (MFA) to gain unauthorized access to dormant Microsoft accounts. According to cybersecurity researchers at Mandiant, the exploit is being used in hacking campaigns by APT29 to bypass authentication. APT29 is…

Security researchers have disclosed a new campaign that exploited a critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerability to infect thousands of devices. They found that hackers have abused the security flaw to target around 2,000 NetScaler instances in Europe. Last month, Citrix disclosed a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-3519, which impacts NetScaler Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and…

Tavis Ormandy, a Google Security researcher has discovered a new vulnerability affecting AMD’s Zen 2 processors. Dubbed Zenbleed, the security flaw could let attackers steal passwords, cryptographic keys, and other sensitive information from software running on vulnerable machines. In a recent blog post, Ormandy detailed that the Zenbleed vulnerability (CVE-2023-20593) was first reported to AMD…