Category: Technology

Dive Brief: Rackspace, in the conclusion to its post-incident investigation, said the threat actor behind the December ransomware attack accessed the Personal Storage Table of just 27 of the company’s 30,000 Hosted Exchange customers, according to an update released Thursday.  Rackspace said there is no evidence the attackers were able to obtain, view, disseminate or […]

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Amid tech industry layoffs, employers economywide added 130,000 tech workers in December, according to a CompTIA review of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. This is a decline of 5 percentage points compared to last […]

The European Union is expected to finalize the Platform Work Directive, its new legislation to regulate digital labor platforms, this month. This is the first law proposed at the European Union level to explicitly regulate “algorithmic management”: the use of automated monitoring, evaluation, and decision-making systems to make or inform decisions including recruitment, hiring, assigning tasks, […]

A seemingly run-of-the-mill breach at LastPass in August produced one of last year’s most alarming security incidents. Downstream impacts mounted as the year came to a close, months after the password manager claimed the threat contained. LastPass users and business customers should be on high alert and change all passwords immediately, following a subsequent breach […]

Sustainable procurement and sustainability in businesses are more than just fancy buzzwords. Statistics support this argument: 60% more businesses engage in sustainable procurement than two years ago. 33% of consumers choose products and services that they believe make a positive social and environmental impact. 89% of sustainability managers and decision-makers state that sustainability has a […]

There’s a movie genre I tend to find moderately amusing but cannot in good conscience respect: the meme flick. You know what I’m talking about. Snakes on a Plane. The Grumpy Cat Christmas movie starring Aubrey Plaza. The upcoming Cocaine Bear. These are forthrightly bonkers movies that exist so people will watch them at least semi-ironically and post […]

After reports at the end of 2022 that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million Twitter users, researchers now say that a widely circulated trove of email addresses linked to about 200 million users is likely a refined version of the larger trove with duplicate entries removed. The social network has not yet commented […]

Consider cyberthreats variations on a theme — the new and novel are rare.  Instead, at their core, many of the top cyberthreats organizations encounter stem from human error and mistakes. That’s why experts are quick to call out the perils of phishing and spear phishing attacks.  Those initial mistakes can serve as a bridge to […]

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Companies are constantly evolving, looking for new ways to diversify their marketing strategies to attract new customers while managing effective engagement with their existing followers. The rise of social media, more than its traditional scope of practice, has meant that businesses and companies can increase their communication and marketing efforts towards previously under-recognized consumer markets. […]