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A hardware supplier to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, the world's biggest semiconductor manufacturer, has suffered an attack by a ransomware group known as LockBit, and the group has demanded a ransom of US$70 million (A$105 million).

GUEST RESEARCH: WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity, today announced the findings of its latest Internet Security Report, detailing the top malware trends and network and endpoint security threats analysed by WatchGuard Threat Lab researchers in Q1 2023. Key findings from the data show phishers leveraging browser-based social engineering strategies, new malware with ties to nation states, high amounts of zero day malware, living-off-the-land attacks on the rise, and more. This edition of the report also features a new, dedicated section for the Threat Lab team's quarterly ransomware tracking and analysis.

The North American-based Coalition for Fair Software Licensing has called on the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft's licensing practices which it claims are anti-competitive.

Microsoft has patched 70 CVEs in its Patch Tuesday releases for June, with this being the first month after a while in which no disclosed or publicly exploited zero-days have been fixed.

GUEST OPINION: The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered three vulnerabilities in RenderDoc.

Australian financial services firm FIIG Securities has confirmed that an unauthorised third party has acted illegally to gain access to its IT systems.

It's highly unusual for any American website to write about the downsides posed by using Microsoft's innumerable products. One could extend that to tech sites in toto (iTWire is an exception: 1,2.).

COMPANY NEWS: ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation, today announced that its identity security solution, ADSelfService Plus, now offers offline MFA for Windows. This new feature allows organisations to secure their data with next-gen authentication methods that prevent unsecured access to remote machines even when they are disconnected from the internet or when the authentication server is inaccessible.

Business software provider Zoho has launched its own browser. Ulaa is said to universally block tracking and website surveillance.

Norway-based Vivaldi Technologies has released an updated version of its browser, claiming that Vivaldi 6.0 will radically change the user experience on the desktop.

Security firm Rapid7 has found a backdoored version of the popular video-conferencing software 3CXDesktopApp which is sold by the company 3CX through the GitHub software repository.

The new Intel vPro platform incorporates the 13th Gen Intel Core processors, and according to the company delivers the most comprehensive security at the same time as addressing the needs of companies that require a PC refresh and delivering increased productivity for all employees.

GUEST RESEARCH: BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, today announced the release of the 2023 Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report. This report is the 10th anniversary edition and covers a decade of vulnerability insights, providing valuable information to help organisations see into the past, present, and future of the Microsoft vulnerability landscape. Produced annually by BeyondTrust, The Microsoft Vulnerabilities Report analyses data from security bulletins publicly issued by Microsoft throughout the previous year.

COMPANY NEWS: Delinea, a leading provider of Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions for seamless security, today announced new features for its Privilege Manager and DevOps Secrets Vault products. Updates to both products make it more seamless to implement the controls frequently required to secure or renew cyber insurance policies.

Microsoft has released patches for 75 vulnerabilities overnight on its second Patch Tuesday for the year, with nine being rated critical.

COMPANY NEWS: BeyondTrust, the leader in intelligent identity and access security, today announced record recurring growth in 2022 and continued innovation through expansion of its identity security platform, acquisition of new customers, and delivery of exceptional customer and employee experiences.

If you spend your days hunched over a laptop then stop! You need a dock, and Belkin has come out with a superb dock that’s light in size but big in features, for any USB-C laptop or tablet.

LibreOffice 7.5 Community, the latest major release of the free office suite, is now available for Windows on Intel/AMD and ARM processors, macOS on Apple Silicon and Intel processors, and Linux.

From time to time, people from Microsoft come up with stupid takes to divert attention from the fact that the products put out by their company are full of security holes. The tech world is chock-full of spin and Microsoft is not reluctant to indulge in it.

The US is thinking of cutting off Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies from accessing any American components, including those from Intel and Qualcomm, a report claims.