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Keysight and Samsung collaborate to accelerate mobile operators’ deployment of 5G services
2020-02-07 01:00

Keysight Technologies, a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced an extended collaboration with Samsung Electronics' LSI Business, a global leader in semiconductor components and 5G technology, to validate dynamic spectrum sharing technology used in the smartphone maker's new 5G modem. Samsung has used Keysight's 5G network emulation solutions to accelerate the development of its radio frequency solution, Exynos RF 5510, as well as its newest 5G modem, Exynos Modem 5123, which supports DSS technology.

Sysnet secures funding to support growth and accelerate development of security product offerings
2020-02-07 00:30

Sysnet Global Solutions, the leading provider of cyber security and compliance solutions operating in over 60 countries worldwide, announced it has secured a significant growth equity investment led by FTV Capital, a growth equity firm with a successful track record supporting high-growth financial services and technology companies, and joined by equal investor True Wind Capital, a technology-focused growth and private equity firm with significant experience in security software and services. Sysnet clients favour Sysnet's managed compliance and security services as an alternative to charging customers non-compliance fees for not complying with the PCI DSS. Any organisations that handles payment card data must comply with PCI DSS. The investment will be used to support Sysnet's rapid growth in North America and Europe, as well as its expansion into new markets including Latin America and Asia.

Nexthink appoints new CTO, two additional board members, and a new Chairman
2020-02-07 00:00

Nexthink, the leader in digital experience management software, announced the appointment of a new Chief Technology Officer, two additional board members and a new Chairman to help fuel the company's next stage of growth and innovation. New members of Nexthink's Board of Directors and new Chairman of the Board.

Michel Robert joins Epsilon as Group Chief Executive Officer
2020-02-06 23:30

Epsilon, a global connectivity and communications service provider, has appointed Michel Robert as its Group Chief Executive Officer, with immediate effect. Bringing more than two decades of technology experience, Michel will lead Epsilon's executive leadership team to build on Epsilon's global strategy in high-growth markets including Asia Pacific, Europe and the United States.

How to use 7zip to encrypt files
2020-02-06 21:45

Although this tool is typically used for zipping and unzipping files, it also includes the ability to encrypt and decrypt those files. Say you have the files webservers and kubernetes to be encrypted into the file data.7z. The command for this would be:.7z a -p -mx=9 -mhe -t7z data.7z webservers kubernetes.

Good: IT admins scrambled to patch 80 per cent of public-facing Citrix boxes to close nightmare hijack hole
2020-02-06 21:42

Roughly a fifth of the public-facing Citrix devices vulnerable to the CVE-2019-19781 remote-hijacking flaw, aka Shitrix, remain unpatched and open to remote attack. Positive Technologies today estimated that thousands of companies remain open to the takeover vulnerability in Citrix ADC and Gateway.

FTC Shutters Hundreds of 'Fake' Websites
2020-02-06 19:18

Since the charges are civil and not criminal, all five defendants remain free, according to the FTC. "The FTC has established a likelihood of success in showing that defendants have deceived consumers by misrepresenting the services they offer, thus inducing consumers to pay money or divulge personal information under false pretenses," according to the U.S. Court for the Southern District of Florida, which issued the order authorizing shuttering of the sites. Over the years, the FTC has closed down other websites that falsely claimed to offer government services.

Coronavirus: How to Plan and Protect
2020-02-06 18:48

How that number grows or shrinks will dictate how business continuity leaders must respond. "If we continue on a 2 percent fatality rate, or it drops even lower, I think we will not see a major impact on business," says Phelps, founder of Emergency Management & Safety Solutions.

The postmortem: Shadow took lots of shortcuts with Iowa 2020 caucus app
2020-02-06 18:45

The Iowa Democratic Party did not train volunteers on how to use the 2020 caucus app from tech company Shadow, but that was not the only problem with the process. Here is a postmortem from software developers and business leaders on what went wrong with the rollout of the Iowa caucus app.

Iranian Hackers Target Journalists in New Phishing Campaign
2020-02-06 18:21

The newly detailed phishing attack, Certfa Lab says, is related to previously observed activity targeting a U.S. presidential candidate, government officials, media targets, and prominent expatriate Iranians, where the hackers employed an updated spear phishing technique. As part of the campaign, the threat actor created a fake account impersonating New York Times journalist Farnaz Fassihi journalist), to send fake interview invitations to victims and trick them into accessing phishing websites.