What IT security teams can learn from the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack
In May, news broke of a DarkSide ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, a major U.S. fuel pipeline that supplies roughly 45 percent of the East Coast’s diesel, gasoline and jet fuel. In response to the attack, the company shut down its pipeline for several days, causing mass disruption in America. Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount’s testimony at a House Homeland …
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Hello? Why your IT service desk won’t be there tomorrow
The service desk as we know it isn’t going to vanish into thin air. But, there are some clear indications that the concept of the service desk as we know it is already evolving into something else, something more innovative. The old way of responding to tickets and problem-solving in silos is over. IT support has evolved these past …
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BigCommerce review 2021 | ITProPortal
Competing with the best website builders, BigCommerce is a powerful option for online store creation, and is one of the best website builders with ecommerce and one of the best website builders for small business. It boasts an ecommerce focused editor, a suite of excellent online selling tools, and various other features to help you maximize the success of your …
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HPC, the driving force behind engineering simulation?
Once limited to large-scale applications in the automotive, aerospace and defense sectors, over recent years engineering simulation is increasingly being applied to smaller scale, but no less valuable, R&D challenges. As customers demand higher quality products and more choice, companies are having to respond with faster, lower-cost prototyping and design, all delivered on time and within budget. To help meet …
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Five top tips for ensuring your conversational AI project is a hit
Most organizations have bold ambitions to deliver AI technologies internally, however they lack the skills, experience or capacity to deliver these projects successfully. Conversational AI is becoming more popular as a way of automating messaging and speech-enabled applications that offer human-like interactions between computers and humans. But it’s often hard to get these projects right. Let’s look first at where …
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Preparing for a RDDoS extortion attack
Ransom attacks dominate cybercrime headlines. May’s Colonial Pipeline attack reduced US east coast fuel supply by 45 percent, resolved only by a $4.4 million ransom payment. In the weeks that followed, President Joe Biden even went as far as calling on Vladimir Putin to move against ransomware groups operating from Russia. Unsurprisingly, these incidents have sparked a number of high-profile …
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Zero the hero! Apple’s new Mail Protection Privacy and what it means for marketing
Imagine you lived in a house in a picturesque village and one day you decided to take a walk to the big city because you needed to buy something in a large shop there. On your way you have to cross a road. It’s only small, there are no cars. However, the next road is much bigger and extremely busy. …
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Wix vs Squarespace | ITProPortal
The best website builders like Wix and Squarespace are excellent for non-coders who want to create professional websites. The entire process of building and maintaining a website is simplified and streamlined, and you can build a site just by choosing from a template and dragging elements onto your pages. What’s more, you get site hosting, a domain name, professional templates, …
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Pattern-based authentication: Solving the password problem
Passwords and PINs have become a ubiquitous part of our daily lives; we use them at ATMs, to unlock our phones and to access various online accounts. This solution has, however, given rise to its own set of password-associated problems. How do we manage to remember all the different combinations that give us access to our vital information or services? …
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Shadow IT and security threats as holidays take off
It has been several weeks since “Freedom Day”. Nearly all remaining Covid laws came to an end after a long 18 months; restrictions around overseas travel have eased, and fully vaccinated adults returning to England from amber list countries will no longer need to self-isolate. With these changes, we can certainly expect more holidays abroad – and so more employees …
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