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Three things to know today

Record low layoffs and big plans to hire

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-closer-ec6175e6-ce10-4da8-9ed5-669b31c0006b.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/77-of-executives-plan-to-hire-in-the-months-ahead-according-to-a-new-poll/#ftag=RSS56d97e7

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/software-and-it-services-hiring-is-surging-as-workers-move-to-these-cities-en-masse/#ftag=RSS56d97e7

Right to repair may come federally

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-06/biden-wants-farmers-to-have-right-to-repair-own-equipment-kqs66nov

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/07/states-bring-new-antitrust-suit-against-google-over-google-play.html?mc_cid=504a01bc09&mc_eid=70cbbe1cdc

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-6e19d042-bbb3-40ec-9f03-b3207ffd3467.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0

https://www.newsweek.com/amid-calls-defund-police-departments-struggle-finance-cybersecurity-1607654

AND

Is cloud PC coming next week?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/here-comes-microsofts-cloud-pc-virtualization-service/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

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Two things to know today

Data overload, and the opportunity it presents

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252503609/Forrester-finds-companies-confounded-by-data-deluge

https://channelbuzz.ca/2021/07/using-services-as-an-msp-growth-driver-37080/

AND

Microsoft and Kaseya both not patched yet – and is it all minimal?

https://therecord.media/microsoft-releases-out-of-band-fix-for-printnightmare-vulnerability/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsofts-incomplete-printnightmare-patch-fails-to-fix-vulnerability/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-kaseya-vsa-security-update-backdoors-networks-with-cobalt-strike/

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252503726/Kaseya-apologises-for-extended-downtime-after-ransom-attack

https://www.computerweekly.com/microscope/news/252503732/Kaseya-pledges-support-for-MSPs-hit-by-ransomware-attack

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cybersecurity-researchers-say-they-warned-kaseya-of-flaw-in-april/ar-AALThD9?li=BBnbcA1

https://urgentcomm.com/2021/07/08/attacks-on-kaseya-servers-led-to-ransomware-in-less-than-2-hours/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/revil-ransomware-hackers-may-be-in-over-their-heads-they-may-not-even-get-paid?source=articles&via=rss

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/6/22565779/rnc-breach-russian-hackers-cozy-bear

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/06/technology/rnc-hacked-cyberattack-russia.html

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/babuk-ransomware-is-back-uses-new-version-on-corporate-networks/

https://thenextweb.com/news/top-5-online-crime-gangs-ransomware-syndication

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-d72c17bb-0c64-43d2-aa53-d2e613d9453c.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/2/22561140/wd-cloud-os-3-security-flaw-update-patch-disconnect

https://statescoop.com/mayors-meet-with-nscs-cyber-lead-as

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Two things to know today

Data overload, and the opportunity it presents

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252503609/Forrester-finds-companies-confounded-by-data-deluge

https://channelbuzz.ca/2021/07/using-services-as-an-msp-growth-driver-37080/

AND

Microsoft and Kaseya both not patched yet – and is it all minimal?

https://therecord.media/microsoft-releases-out-of-band-fix-for-printnightmare-vulnerability/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsofts-incomplete-printnightmare-patch-fails-to-fix-vulnerability/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-kaseya-vsa-security-update-backdoors-networks-with-cobalt-strike/

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252503726/Kaseya-apologises-for-extended-downtime-after-ransom-attack

https://www.computerweekly.com/microscope/news/252503732/Kaseya-pledges-support-for-MSPs-hit-by-ransomware-attack

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cybersecurity-researchers-say-they-warned-kaseya-of-flaw-in-april/ar-AALThD9?li=BBnbcA1

https://urgentcomm.com/2021/07/08/attacks-on-kaseya-servers-led-to-ransomware-in-less-than-2-hours/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/revil-ransomware-hackers-may-be-in-over-their-heads-they-may-not-even-get-paid?source=articles&via=rss

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/6/22565779/rnc-breach-russian-hackers-cozy-bear

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/06/technology/rnc-hacked-cyberattack-russia.html

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/babuk-ransomware-is-back-uses-new-version-on-corporate-networks/

https://thenextweb.com/news/top-5-online-crime-gangs-ransomware-syndication

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-d72c17bb-0c64-43d2-aa53-d2e613d9453c.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/2/22561140/wd-cloud-os-3-security-flaw-update-patch-disconnect

https://statescoop.com/mayors-meet-with-nscs-cyber-lead-as-ransomware-crisis-continues/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/white-house-urges-mayors-to-meet-with-state-cybersecurity-officials-on-ransomware/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/ransomware-biden-russia/2021/07/06/ff52a9de-de72-11eb-b507-697762d090dd_story.html

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/1-in-4-employees-say-they-still-have-access-to-accounts-from-past-jobs-survey-finds/#ftag=RSS56d97e7

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Two things to know today

The ever-changing world of work offers a menu board of options

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-28/bank-bucks-u-s-peers-saying-no-one-should-return-5-days-a-week

https://www.axios.com/hybrid-work-fairness-policies-2a3b20c0-bf66-4879-922c-fa1736e1b57a.html

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-whats-next-2c32a844-cec9-46ea-ac69-edebe35e6588.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2

https://www.zdnet.com/article/tech-workers-are-preparing-to-quit-persuading-them-stay-wont-be-easy/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

https://www.ciodive.com/news/JumpCloud-Capital-One-hybrid-work-statistics-IT/602804/

https://www.axios.com/burnout-same-vacation-paid-time-off-f9c0b10b-6c95-4f67-863a-fbdb799beee4.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/29/covid-google-to-re-start-employee-shuttle-buses-as-it-re-opens-bay-area-offices-next-month/

https://www.reuters.com/business/no-jobs-arent-all-back-yet-any-top-us-industry-2021-07-02/

AND

The Pentagon throws in the towel on JEDI

https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/06/nobody-wins-as-dod-finally-pulls-the-plug-on-controversial-10b-jedi-contract/

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/06/pentagon-cancels-10-billion-jedi-cloud-contract.html

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Two things to know today

The ever-changing world of work offers a menu board of options

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-28/bank-bucks-u-s-peers-saying-no-one-should-return-5-days-a-week

https://www.axios.com/hybrid-work-fairness-policies-2a3b20c0-bf66-4879-922c-fa1736e1b57a.html

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-whats-next-2c32a844-cec9-46ea-ac69-edebe35e6588.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2

https://www.zdnet.com/article/tech-workers-are-preparing-to-quit-persuading-them-stay-wont-be-easy/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

https://www.ciodive.com/news/JumpCloud-Capital-One-hybrid-work-statistics-IT/602804/

https://www.axios.com/burnout-same-vacation-paid-time-off-f9c0b10b-6c95-4f67-863a-fbdb799beee4.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/29/covid-google-to-re-start-employee-shuttle-buses-as-it-re-opens-bay-area-offices-next-month/

https://www.reuters.com/business/no-jobs-arent-all-back-yet-any-top-us-industry-2021-07-02/

AND

The Pentagon throws in the towel on JEDI

https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/06/nobody-wins-as-dod-finally-pulls-the-plug-on-controversial-10b-jedi-contract/

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/06/pentagon-cancels-10-billion-jedi-cloud-contract.html

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Three things to know today

Tools provider Kaseya attacked

https://www.reuters.com/technology/200-businesses-hit-by-ransomware-following-incident-us-it-firm-huntress-labs-2021-07-02/

https://www.kaseya.com/potential-attack-on-kaseya-vsa/

https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/05/kaseya-hack-flood-ransomware/

https://thenextweb.com/news/everything-need-know-revil-70m-kaseya-ransomware-attack-explained

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kaseya-was-fixing-zero-day-just-as-revil-ransomware-sprung-their-attack/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/revil-is-increasing-ransoms-for-kaseya-ransomware-attack-victims/

https://www.reuters.com/technology/hackers-demand-70-million-liberate-data-held-by-companies-hit-mass-cyberattack-2021-07-05/

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cyber-attack-against-us-it-provider-forces-swedish-chain-close-800-stores-2021-07-03/

https://www.reuters.com/technology/biden-says-uncertain-who-is-behind-latest-ransomware-attack-2021-07-03/

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2021/07/04/cisa-fbi-guidance-msps-and-their-customers-affected-kaseya-vsa

https://www.crn.com/news/security/kaseya-vsa-saas-coming-back-tuesday-on-prem-wednesday

Microsoft reveals active exploit

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-shares-mitigations-for-windows-printnightmare-zero-day-bug/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/2/22560435/microsoft-printnightmare-windows-print-spooler-service-vulnerability-exploit-0-day

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/252872/microsoft-is-actively-investigating-printnightmare-vulnerability

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-warns-of-critical-powershell-7-code-execution-vulnerability/

AND

What hashtag infosecbikini is all about

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Three things to know today

Tools provider Kaseya attacked

https://www.reuters.com/technology/200-businesses-hit-by-ransomware-following-incident-us-it-firm-huntress-labs-2021-07-02/

https://www.kaseya.com/potential-attack-on-kaseya-vsa/

https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/05/kaseya-hack-flood-ransomware/

https://thenextweb.com/news/everything-need-know-revil-70m-kaseya-ransomware-attack-explained

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kaseya-was-fixing-zero-day-just-as-revil-ransomware-sprung-their-attack/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/revil-is-increasing-ransoms-for-kaseya-ransomware-attack-victims/

https://www.reuters.com/technology/hackers-demand-70-million-liberate-data-held-by-companies-hit-mass-cyberattack-2021-07-05/

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cyber-attack-against-us-it-provider-forces-swedish-chain-close-800-stores-2021-07-03/

https://www.reuters.com/technology/biden-says-uncertain-who-is-behind-latest-ransomware-attack-2021-07-03/

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2021/07/04/cisa-fbi-guidance-msps-and-their-customers-affected-kaseya-vsa

https://www.crn.com/news/security/kaseya-vsa-saas-coming-back-tuesday-on-prem-wednesday

Microsoft reveals active exploit

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-shares-mitigations-for-windows-printnightmare-zero-day-bug/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/2/22560435/microsoft-printnightmare-windows-print-spooler-service-vulnerability-exploit-0-day

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/252872/microsoft-is-actively-investigating-printnightmare-vulnerability

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-warns-of-critical-powershell-7-code-execution-vulnerability/

AND

What hashtag infosecbikini is all about

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Three things to know today

Strong words from Interpol, new resources from CISA and MITRE, and who's phished the most?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lorenz-ransomware-decryptor-recovers-victims-files-for-free/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-vpn-service-used-by-ransomware-gangs-was-just-taken-down-by-police/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nsa-russian-gru-hackers-use-kubernetes-to-run-brute-force-attacks/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-finds-netgear-router-bugs-enabling-corporate-breaches/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/it-healthcare-and-manufacturing-facing-most-phishing-attacks-report/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

https://therecord.media/cyber-insurance-market-faces-a-reckoning-as-losses-pile-up/?mc_cid=d676bd61c6&mc_eid=cf761c66e7

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/cybersecurity-study-solarwinds-attack-cost-affected-companies-an-average-of-12-million/

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2021/06/30/cisas-cset-tool-sets-sights-ransomware-threat

https://d3fend.mitre.org/?mc_cid=d676bd61c6&mc_eid=cf761c66e7

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/29/22555959/wd-my-book-live-second-exploit-authentication-factory-reset-without-password-root-control

Right to repair in effect in the UK

https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/new-right-repair-law-kicks-24430598

AND

A lesson from Instagram

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/24/instagram-post-from-desktop/

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Three things to know today

Strong words from Interpol, new resources from CISA and MITRE, and who's phished the most?

 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lorenz-ransomware-decryptor-recovers-victims-files-for-free/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-vpn-service-used-by-ransomware-gangs-was-just-taken-down-by-police/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nsa-russian-gru-hackers-use-kubernetes-to-run-brute-force-attacks/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-finds-netgear-router-bugs-enabling-corporate-breaches/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/it-healthcare-and-manufacturing-facing-most-phishing-attacks-report/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

https://therecord.media/cyber-insurance-market-faces-a-reckoning-as-losses-pile-up/?mc_cid=d676bd61c6&mc_eid=cf761c66e7

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/cybersecurity-study-solarwinds-attack-cost-affected-companies-an-average-of-12-million/

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2021/06/30/cisas-cset-tool-sets-sights-ransomware-threat

https://d3fend.mitre.org/?mc_cid=d676bd61c6&mc_eid=cf761c66e7

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/29/22555959/wd-my-book-live-second-exploit-authentication-factory-reset-without-password-root-control

Right to repair in effect in the UK

https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/new-right-repair-law-kicks-24430598

AND

A lesson from Instagram

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/24/instagram-post-from-desktop/

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Two things to know today

The dynamics of IT Decision makers in data from Forrester

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/28/consumer-spending-on-apps-hit-record-64-9b-in-first-half-of-2021-but-install-growth-slowed-to-1-7/

https://www.ciodive.com/news/IT-business-tech-purchasing-budgets/602535/

https://www.ciodive.com/news/on-premise-spend-IT-trends-2021-Forrester/602600/

AND

Why focus on the workers and new models of work matters - 17.9%.

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-whats-next-6c287ab9-967e-4aae-9276-2504189c353f.html?chunk=0&utm_term=emshare#story0

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/29/22556615/apple-response-hybrid-work-model-employee-letter-remote

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-to-start-up-its-work-shuttle-buses-while-other-tech-firms-want-to-stay-out-of-the-office/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

https://www.commercialintegrator.com/blogs/gartner-about-half-of-global-organizations-arent-tracking-vaccination-status/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/28/employee-burnout-corporate-america/?mc_cid=78b4208775&mc_eid=70cbbe1cdc

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