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Weekly threat roundup: Atlassian, Microsoft Office, Zoho ManageEngine
News Pulling together the most dangerous and pressing flaws that businesses need to patch
REvil ransomware gang resurfaces after brief disappearance
News Elements of the notorious ransomware group's infrastructure have come back online
Hackers exploit Windows zero-day to target users with Office files
News This ‘reliable and dangerous’ flaw is being abused to launch remote code execution attacks against specific targets
Estonia is making its internal government testbed free to use
News One of the world’s most digitally advanced governments is opening up its tech stack, expertise, and live-testing environment
EU may consider enforcing seven-year smartphone lifespan
News The German government is lobbying the European Commission to go further than its current tech repairability proposals
US officials warn of “mass exploitation” of Atlassian Confluence flaw
News Hackers can exploit the workplace collaboration platform to execute arbitrary code remotely
WhatsApp fined €225 million over obscure data sharing policies
News This finalised penalty is almost five times larger than the draft fine the Irish data regulator issued in December 2020
Weekly threat roundup: Exchange Server, AMD CPUs, Azure Cosmos DB
News Pulling together the most dangerous and pressing flaws that businesses need to patch
Amazon global hiring spree to add 55,000 new jobs
News The firm will grow its tech and operations teams with the majority of these roles based in the US
Cloudflare ditches Intel Xeon CPUs over “enormous” energy consumption
News The firm’s 11th generation servers will be fitted with AMD EPYC 7713 CPUs instead
Google reportedly planning Chromebooks with custom CPUs by 2023
News The company is said to be ramping up its chip-making efforts after witnessing Apple's success with its M1 CPU
Pace of government IT spending to slow in 2022
News Gartner projects that global spending will rise 6.5% between now and 2022
Microsoft Exchange Server flaw lets attackers misconfigure mailboxes
News Microsoft has patched the ProxyToken vulnerability before any evidence of exploitation has emerged
TSMC plots up to 20% price hike amid global chip crisis
News The price increases could have repercussions on the global electronics market
Apple concedes ground to developers with $100 million settlement
News The tech giant is now allowing developers to promote purchase options outside of iOS apps
Weekly threat roundup: Ethereum, Razer mice, Cisco
News Pulling together the most dangerous and pressing flaws that businesses need to patch
Microsoft product chief Panos Panay joins executive leadership team
News The Microsoft veteran has been a key player in the development of the Surface range and Windows 11
UK reveals post-Brexit data reforms alongside flurry of international agreements
News The US, Australia, and South Korea are among the countries the government is prioritising for multi-billion-pound adequacy agreements
Zoom charts course for ‘hybrid’ office return
News The company briefly opened its Sydney offices but reversed course as COVID-19 remerged in the area
Widely-used WhatsApp mod stuffed with malware
News FMWhatsApp is embedded with the Triada Trojan which tracks device information and intercepts texts
Intel and Qualcomm awarded chipmaking deal with US defence agencies
News The US government wants to create a healthy stream of 7nm chips and smaller manufactured on-shore
Samsung invests £150 billion to become global chipmaking leader
News The three-year plan will also see the firm make 40,000 hires
Microsoft Power Apps misconfiguration exposes 38 million records
News Sensitive data including contact tracing, COVID vaccine status as well as names and email addresses have been leaked
