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 07/26/21!

Patch Tuesday July 2021 Edition...PrintNightmare, Windows RCEs and More Exchange RCEs.

IT Operations

• How to sidestep overspend as hybrid work tests IT

• In modernization, security is a barrier and an incentive

• Forrester analyst: Does your IT operating model need an overhaul?

Microsoft

• What to expect from Microsoft Edge in Windows 11

• Microsoft: Zero Trust security just hit the mainstream

• Microsoft Teams hits 250 million monthly active user milestone

• Microsoft Teams: Here comes new protection against phishing attacks

• What's new in Microsoft Endpoint Manager - 2107 (July) Edition

• Reminder: Your Microsoft 365 apps soon won't work with Internet Explorer 11

• Visual Studio Code C++ July 2021 Update

• Microsoft: Here's how to shield your Windows servers against this credential stealing attack

HP

• HP buys Teradici, guns for remote high-performance computing

Cisco

• Cisco sets hybrid work plan with no mandates for time in office

• Hybrid work is here to stay -but what does that mean for cybersecurity?

• Meraki announces new MX Endpoint

• Cisco Networking: choice and simplicity

AWS

• AWS is retiring EC2-Classic soon: Here's what you need to know

• Introducing Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller

• Announcing Amazon Genomics CLI 

• Building well-architected serverless applications: Regulating inbound request rates

Security

• Cisco researchers spotlight Solarmarker malware

• Ransomware: These are the two most common ways hackers get inside your network

• IT defenses fail to prevent ransomware attacks: report

• This unusual malware attack can go from first contact to launching ransomware in just 48 hours

• CSO Global Intelligence Report: The state of cybersecurity in 2021

• Hackers breach UC San Diego hospital, gaining access to SSNs and medical info

• Average organization targeted by over 700 social engineering attacks each year

• Enterprise data breach cost reached record high during COVID-19 pandemic

• HP finds 75% of threats were delivered by email in first six months of 2021

• The evolution of spear phishing and who criminals are targeting