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 05/10/21!

Dell High Severity 12-Year-Old Vulnerability Leaves Hundreds

of Millions of Systems Exposed.

IT Operations

• Working from home is making companies rethink IT spending. Here's how it's changing

• Making the most of data and analytics

• How to prevent cloud cost overrun while migrating data management

• CIOs and CTOs say they adapted well to disruptions caused by COVID-19

• 3 advantages to having cloud tools available for on-prem data centers

Microsoft

• Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service

• Microsoft Teams and Zoom users have a new feature that may stun you into silence

• 10 features of Windows Admin Center to streamline server administration

• Microsoft 365 email data breaches take center stage amid WFH in a new report

• Windows 10: These versions just reached end of service, no more security patches coming

• Microsoft brings Threat and Vulnerability Management capability to Linux

• Microsoft's May 2021 Patch Tuesday: 55 flaws fixed, four critical

VMware

• VMware combines services for new Modern Apps Connectivity platform

Cisco

• Cisco acquires Kenna Security, makers of a vulnerability management platform 

• Cisco to acquire Sedonasys Systems for innovative NetFusion platform

• Implementing Zero Trust for the workforce: Cisco's story

• Simplified security with purpose-built networking for advanced threat protection 

AWS

• AWS Local Zones are now open in Boston, Miami, and Houston

• Introducing CloudFront functions - Run your code at the edge with low latency at any scale

• Amazon EC2 High Memory Instances now available for on-demand usage

• New - Create Microsoft SQL Server Instances of Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts

Security

• 'Significant' ransomware attack forces Ireland's health service to shut down IT systems

• Toshiba unit struck by DarkSide ransomware group

• US pipeline ransomware attack serves as fair warning to persistent corporate inertia over security

• Two-thirds of CISOs across world expect damaging cyberattack in next 12 months

• New ransomware: CISA warns over FiveHands file-encrypting malware variant

• Ransomware attackers are now using triple extortion tactics

• Colonial Pipeline paid close to $5 million in ransomware blackmail payment

• Microsoft warns: Watch out for this new malware that steals passwords, webcam and browser data

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