IT Pro News In Review: UK 4 day week, ransomware payment rise, IBM cut ties with Russia
Catch up on the biggest headlines of the week in just two minutes
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What can space lasers do for business broadband?In-depth NASA is using lasers to stream 4k video from the moon – can businesses use the same tech on Earth?
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Has another OpenAI Stargate project hit the rocks?News Microsoft will be renting capacity in Norwegian data center originally intended for OpenAI
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Security leaders overconfident about ransomware recoveryNews Few manage to recover all their data, and many experience business disruption
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German authorities want your help finding the hackers behind GandCrab and REvilNews Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin and Anatoly Sergeevitsch Kravchuk are believed to have made millions from ransomware as a service schemes
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Sectigo taps Clint Maddox to lead global field operationsReviews The appointment follows a year of strong momentum for the security vendor as it expands its global channel footprint
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The rise of teen hackers ‘makes for a good headline’, but cyber crime activities peak later in life
News With family responsibilities and mortgages to pay, it's not teenagers dishing out malware or carrying out cyber extortion
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Ransomware gangs are using employee monitoring software as a springboard for cyber attacksNews Two attempted attacks aimed to exploit Net Monitor for Employees Professional and SimpleHelp
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Ransomware gangs are sharing virtual machines to wage cyber attacks on the cheap – but it could be their undoingNews Thousands of attacker servers all had the same autogenerated Windows hostnames, according to Sophos
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Google issues warning over ShinyHunters-branded vishing campaignsNews Related groups are stealing data through voice phishing and fake credential harvesting websites
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The FBI has seized the RAMP hacking forum, but will the takedown stick? History tells us otherwiseNews Billing itself as the “only place ransomware allowed", RAMP catered mainly for Russian-speaking cyber criminals
