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Microsoft Isn't Patching Excel Dynamic Data Exchange Attack Vulnerability
The Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program, in combination with its Power Query data-fetching component, can be leveraged in so-called "Dynamic Data Exchange" (DDE) types of attacks, according to a report published on Thursday by Mimecast Threat Center researchers.
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https://m.phys.org/news/2019-06-eu-okays-ibm-bn-buyout.html
Comment from Osiris1
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Microsoft Turning On Teams for Office 365 Business, ProPlus Subscribers as Early as July
Microsoft plans to activate its Teams collaboration app for organizations with existing Office 365 Business or Office 365 ProPlus subscriptions starting as early as July 9, according to a Friday announcement.
Unless IT pros take advance action to block the arrival of Teams, the application will get turned on automatically by Microsoft with the arrival of next Office update.
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Microsoft Bringing Kaizala Pro Capabilities to Microsoft Teams
Microsoft plans to add Kaizala Pro capabilities into Microsoft Teams over the next 12 to 18 months, according to a Thursday announcement.
Kaizala is a Microsoft mobile chat application for Android and iOS devices that has "enterprise-grade security" and uses a simple phone number user identity verification scheme. -
Cpanel Price increases are leaving webhosting companies waving pitch forks. It is a complete different pricing model, a completely greedy pricing model.
check out the this thread: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1770316 -
@StuartJordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
It is a complete different pricing model, a completely greedy pricing model.
It's only greedy if the customers decide that it is worth it and it maximizes profits.
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cPanel is pretty awful. Companies using it feel lost. Like they are building businesses without any idea of what goes on underneath. Pretty much waving flags identifying themselves as prime targets for huge price increases because they self identify as depending totally on cPanel to build their business.
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Microsoft asks to join private Linux security developer list
Microsoft's migration from Linux enemy to Linux friend continues in security circles.
Almost all of Linux's development work is conducted in the open. Almost. -
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@StuartJordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
It is a complete different pricing model, a completely greedy pricing model.
It's only greedy if the customers decide that it is worth it and it maximizes profits.
LOL - that's not greed.
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Georgia courts (mostly) shrug off ransomware attack
But a Florida city pays $600k in ransom and still faces $1m in security fixes.
A spokesman for Georgia's Administrative Office of the Courts has confirmed that the AOC's information technology team discovered ransomware on the organization's servers on Saturday. -
HP, Dell, Microsoft, and Amazon look to move some hardware production out of China
HP, Dell, Microsoft, and Amazon are the latest companies to consider moving some of their hardware production out of China in light of the ongoing trade war with the US.
Nikkei reports that HP and Dell are both looking to move up to 30 percent of their laptop production out of the country. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft asks to join private Linux security developer list
Microsoft's migration from Linux enemy to Linux friend continues in security circles.
Almost all of Linux's development work is conducted in the open. Almost."All of which makes good sense. Besides, Levin revealed in a follow-up note to the discussion that: "the Linux usage on our cloud has surpassed Windows,"
Hmmm.... Is Levin talking about Azure? Don't know, but I think so. If so, I am trying to figure out why choose Azure over AWS or any others if doing Linux Systems?
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D-Link agrees to new security monitoring to settle FTC charges
Agreement settles charges D-Link left users open to critical and widespread threats
Router and webcam maker D-Link has agreed to implement a new security program to settle charges it failed to safeguard its hardware against well-known and preventable hacks and misrepresented its existing security regimen. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
D-Link agrees to new security monitoring to settle FTC charges
Agreement settles charges D-Link left users open to critical and widespread threats
Router and webcam maker D-Link has agreed to implement a new security program to settle charges it failed to safeguard its hardware against well-known and preventable hacks and misrepresented its existing security regimen.Remember that conference where D-Link was there with a booth and all they did was try to tell everyone that they were a serious company? They had nothing to show, just sales guys saying over and over "we do business stuff, too!"
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
D-Link agrees to new security monitoring to settle FTC charges
Agreement settles charges D-Link left users open to critical and widespread threats
Router and webcam maker D-Link has agreed to implement a new security program to settle charges it failed to safeguard its hardware against well-known and preventable hacks and misrepresented its existing security regimen.Remember that conference where D-Link was there with a booth and all they did was try to tell everyone that they were a serious company? They had nothing to show, just sales guys saying over and over "we do business stuff, too!"
Nope, because if I saw them at all, I just strolled on past knowing they didn't know dink about business class stuff.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft Turning On Teams for Office 365 Business, ProPlus Subscribers as Early as July
Microsoft plans to activate its Teams collaboration app for organizations with existing Office 365 Business or Office 365 ProPlus subscriptions starting as early as July 9, according to a Friday announcement.
Unless IT pros take advance action to block the arrival of Teams, the application will get turned on automatically by Microsoft with the arrival of next Office update.
There has been a switch (for a couple of months) in the admin portal to disable the automatic adding of Teams for SFB users, but it got turned on by default. I had to go in and disable it, as we left SFB/Teams for Slack.
