If you had a busy week and need to catch up, here’s our recap of tech stories you may have missed the week of 02/22/21!

New Mac Mystery Malware "Silver Sparrow" & New VMware (RCE) in vCenter!

IT Operations

• Global government IT spending to reach $483 billion in 2021

• Everything as a service, cloud on the rise to transform enterprise IT

• Walmart saves millions with cloud and ML upgrades

• Google and Intel partner up to speed up 5G application rollout

• Field of Wi-Fi dreams: Delivering network solutions to Major Leagues and preserving ballpark history

Microsoft

• How to secure Windows 10 PCs with Microsoft 365

• Microsoft: We've open-sourced this tool we used to hunt for code by SolarWinds hackers

• Microsoft: How we deliver industry-specific cloud computing at scale

Cisco

• Detecting and responding to SolarWinds infrastructure attack with Cisco Secure Analytics

• Balancing safety and security during a year of remote working

• Cisco issues 3 critical warnings around ACI, NS-OX security holes

AWS

• AWS' Mac EC2 instances now support macOS Big Sur

• AWS S3 security best practices

• AWS joins PennyLane, an open-source framework that melds machine learning with quantum computing

Security

• Top 5 things to know about network attacks

• How cyberattacks can threaten college and universities

• These four new hacking groups are targeting critical infrastructure, warns security company

• Researchers find vulnerabilities inside multiple virtual event, business platforms

• North Korean hackers find new target: The defense industry

• 5 tips to protect your organization against the next cyberattack

• How to combat the latest security threats in 2021

• Kroger data breach highlights urgent need to replace legacy, end-of-life tools

• Ransomware threats to watch for in 2021 include crimeware-as-a-service

• 30,000 Macs infected with new Silver Sparrow malware

• More than 6,700 VMware servers exposed online and vulnerable to major new bug

• Ransomware: Sharp rise in attacks against universities as learning goes online 

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