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Facebook has decided to halt its efforts to build a trans-Pacific undersea cable that would have connected California and Hong Kong, due to tensions between the United States and China. "Due to ongoing concerns from the US government about direct communication links between the United States and Hong Kong, we have decided to withdraw our FCC application," a Facebook spokesperson told AFP on Wednesday, referring to the Federal Communications Commission.

Update: Microsoft has released out-of-band non-security updates to address the Windows 10 printing crash issue. Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 devices might crash with a Blue Screen of Death when printing under certain conditions after applying the March cumulative updates.

The exploit at a democratic institution such as Stortinget is certainly ominous, perhaps more so than the woes in recent days of organisations such as the European Banking Authority. Stortinget president Tone Wilhelmsen Trøen said: "The attack we are facing shows that IT attacks can have serious consequences for democratic processes at worst."

Organizations have invested millions in new technology over the past year, yet fewer than one in 10 businesses have trained staff in to use these tools. Despite soaring technology budgets, research suggests that workers still have not been trained to use new tools properly - and employees are finding themselves on the firing line.

At the 1 year mark of quarantine, 85% of office workers are looking forward to returning to the office in some capacity, according to Eden Workplace. The survey was conducted by Wakefield Research and involved 1,000 nationally representative U.S. full- and part-time office workers ages 18+ between February 9th and February 17th 2021.

announced the formation and inaugural members of its Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force. "Diverse perspectives help to generate the bold and innovative ideas we need to solve the complex security challenges facing global organizations.(ISC)² is committed to giving voice to these perspectives."

You can protect the internal "Network" all you want, but the chances are many, probably most, of your staffers are connecting to the cloud from their home networks. Are you completely sure that this traffic, and the domestic networks and remote devices it is coming from and living on, is secure? And here's a final thought.

Password security has long been an issue for businesses and their cybersecurity standards. Account passwords are often the weakest link in the overall security posture for many organizations.

Your company takes compliance and security very seriously, but you've no idea what or how to layer on top of AWS's existing security and compliance protocols to achieve levels necessary for compliance certification. In this case and others, passing a compliance audit may prove particularly problematic even though your company is committed to performing at or above baseline legal requirements.

Alert overload still plagues the cybersecurity industry, according to Critical Start. Forty-seven percent of respondents reported personally investigating 10 to 20 alerts each day, a 12% increase from 2019.