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For the majority of firms, the most critical stress point was their ability to adapt their operations for the sudden pivot to remote working. Many organizations have concluded that flexible remote working will be a mainstay for the foreseeable future, but even those that can't or won't embrace a remote or hybrid strategy will need to ensure they can weather a storm like the COVID-19 pandemic again.
With so many companies falling victim to cyberattacks, an entire cottage industry of Incident Response services has arisen. Recently, cybersecurity company Cynet provided an Incident Response plan Word template to help companies plan for this unfortunate occurrence.
Amid an exponential increase in online fraud, an INTERPOL-coordinated operation codenamed HAECHI-I mobilized more than 40 specialized law enforcement officers across the Asia Pacific region. Officially concluding last week, Operation HAECHI-I focused particularly on five types of online financial crime: investment fraud, romance scams, money laundering associated with illegal online gambling, online sextortion and voice phishing.
To maximize the data pool, it is customary to share patient data between clinics by sending copies of databases to the clinics where the algorithm is being trained. "These processes have often proven inadequate in terms of protecting patients' health data," says Daniel Rueckert, Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Medicine at TUM. AI-based diagnostic processes support doctors.
Stellar Cyber introduces the centralized management and visibility functionality in its Open XDR platform. This new capability, named Stellar Cyber Central, accompanies Stellar Cyber's Command Center and enables users to see potential threats and consolidate user management at multiple sites from one single console under a single license, and without having to log into those sites individually - reducing complexity, improving performance, segmenting data to comply with GDPR or other privacy requirements, and reducing the time it takes to identify security incidents.
Starting June 8, Amazon will automatically enable a feature on its family of hardware devices, including Echo speakers, Ring Video Doorbells, Ring Floodlight Cams, and Ring Spotlight Cams, that will share a small part of your Internet bandwidth with nearby neighbors - unless you choose to opt-out. Originally announced in September 2019, Sidewalk is part of Amazon's efforts to build a long-range wireless network that leverages a combination of Bluetooth and 900 MHz spectrum to help Echo, Ring, Tile trackers, and other Sidewalk-enabled devices communicate over the internet without Wi-Fi. Sidewalk is designed to extend the working range of low-bandwidth devices, and help devices stay connected even if they are outside the range of a user's home Wi-Fi network.
Ericsson has launched Ericsson Private 5G. It offers secure and simple 4G LTE and 5G Standalone connectivity primarily targeting - but not limited to - manufacturing, mining and process industry, offshore and power utilities, as well as ports and airports. Ericsson Private 5G optimizes and simplifies business operations with cloud-based network management, keeps sensitive data on-premise, has zero downtime upgrades and guarantees high performance through Service-Level Agreements.
Brazil's JBS SA said late Tuesday that it had made "Significant progress" in dealing with the cyberattack and expected the "Vast majority" of its plants to be operating on Wednesday. JBS is the second-largest producer of beef, pork and chicken in the U.S. If it were to shut down for even one day, the U.S. would lose almost a quarter of its beef-processing capacity, or the equivalent of 20,000 beef cows, according to Trey Malone, an assistant professor of agriculture at Michigan State University.
Computer Services is participating in the FedNow Pilot Program to advance instant payments in the U.S. The program is designed to foster industry partnerships in development of the Federal Reserve's new real-time payments service. As part of the FedNow Pilot Program, CSI will support development, testing and adoption of the FedNow Service.
Uncle Sam on Tuesday said it had seized two web domains used to foist malware on victims using spoofed emails from the US Agency for International Development. The malicious messages, masquerading as legitimate emails from USAID, went out to thousands of email accounts at over a hundred different organizations.