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 04/12/21!

Patch Tuesday April 2021 Edition...Here We Go Again: More Exchange RCEs

IT Operations

• Businesses prioritize cost-cutting, IT support in flexible work tech outfitting

• 3 ways the CI/CD approach to software has made work better for developers

• Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance signals a trend of industry-specific acquisition

• Automation will accelerate decentralization and digital transformation

• The key to a happy and productive workforce? Flexibility, trust, and a focus on wellbeing

Microsoft

• Windows 10 21H1: A small but significant update, with bigger changes to come in 21H2

• Microsoft doubles down on healthcare and conversational AI with the purchase of Nuance

• Microsoft's April 2021 Patch Tuesday: Download covers 114 CVEs including new Exchange Server bugs

• Microsoft makes MSIX App Attach, a key Windows Virtual Desktop feature, generally available

• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now protects unmanaged BYO devices

Dell 

• Dell Technologies to spin VMware into an independent company

VMware

• VMware unifies its cloud front 

• VMware CTO: The days of enterprises going 'all-in' on one public cloud provider 'are dead'

• VMware points Carbon Black Security to containers, Kubernetes

Cisco

• Telemetry and AI/ML-Driven wireless advances

• Intent-based networking in the world of finance

• Advances in software-defined networking and SD-WAN

AWS

• OpenSearch: AWS rolls out its open-source Elasticsearch fork

• AWS reveals a new method to build a more accurate quantum computer

• Securonix, AWS partner on new cloud-native SIEM solution

Security

• Ransomware: The internet's biggest security crisis is getting worse. We need a way out

• Cybersecurity funding hits all-time high in 2020

• Cybersecurity: Victims are spotting cyberattacks much more quickly - but there's a catch

• Phishing attack ramps up against COVID-19 vaccine supply chain

• How it can support security in the event of a cyberattack

• These new vulnerabilities put millions of IoT devices at risk, so patch now

• FBI cleans up infected Exchange servers

• DDoS attacks increased by 20% in 2020, meaning everyone should consider themselves at risk

• High numbers of schools hit by phishing, account compromise, and ransomware attacks

• SolarWinds: US and UK blame Russian intelligence service hackers for major cyberattack

• Criminals spread malware using website contact forms with Google URLs

• Wells Fargo and Chase now among most imitated brands in phishing attacks

• Attacks against cloud users surged in 2020  

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