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Three things to know today

• Physical security gets a hard look  

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/10/verkada-hack-surveillance-risk/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/11/22324876/surveillance-camera-firm-verkada-breached-hacked-super-admin-access-employees

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-access-surveillance-cameras-at-tesla-cloudflare-banks-more/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/ovh-data-center-burns-down-knocking-major-sites-offline/

• IDC revises their projection for this year

https://www.crn.com/news/mobility/pc-demand-expected-to-continue-surging-in-2021-idc

AND

• The UK joins in on the right to repair

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56340077

https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/right-repair-set-become-law-uk

https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/half-us-states-looking-give-americans-right-repair

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Three things to know today

• Remote Work: the shifts, the exodus, and the security

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/remote-work-1-year-later-pandemic-sent-tech-workers-home-will-return/

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-companies-leaving-san-francisco-exagerated-telstra-survey-austin-texas-2021-3?op=1&scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

https://www.ciodive.com/news/remote-work-security-employee-risk/596180/

• You could soon be able to sue foreign hackers

AND

• How ransomware developers… test

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Three things to know today

• Remote Work: the shifts, the exodus, and the security

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/remote-work-1-year-later-pandemic-sent-tech-workers-home-will-return/

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-companies-leaving-san-francisco-exagerated-telstra-survey-austin-texas-2021-3?op=1&scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

https://www.ciodive.com/news/remote-work-security-employee-risk/596180/

• You could soon be able to sue foreign hackers

AND

• How ransomware developers… test

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Two things to know today

• New projections for IT spend in the SMB for 2021, and the why

https://techaisle.com/blog/445-techaisle-survey-us-smb-it-spending-will-grow-in-2021

AND

• More fallout from the Exchange server hack

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/a-basic-timeline-of-the-exchange-mass-hack/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/8/22319934/microsoft-hafnium-hack-exchange-server-email-flaw-white-house

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About Business of Tech: The daily MSP news and analysis podcast for managed service providers and IT services leaders. Host Dave Sobel covers AI for MSPs, MSP pricing and profitability, MSP M&A and private equity, vendor partner programs, MSP cybersecurity and liability, and MSP operations — and answers the question every story raises: Why do we care? Produced by MSP Radio.

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Two things to know today

• New projections for IT spend in the SMB for 2021, and the why  

 https://techaisle.com/blog/445-techaisle-survey-us-smb-it-spending-will-grow-in-2021

AND

• More fallout from the Exchange server hack

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/a-basic-timeline-of-the-exchange-mass-hack/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/8/22319934/microsoft-hafnium-hack-exchange-server-email-flaw-white-house

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Three things to know today

• That Exchange Server issue continues to blow up, plus two more

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/5/22316189/microsoft-exchange-server-security-exploit-china-attack-30000-organizations

https://thenextweb.com/neural/2021/03/04/researchers-discover-huge-security-holes-in-amazons-skills-for-alexa/

https://www.wired.com/story/ios-android-leaky-apps-cloud/

• A number of broadband developments

https://venturebeat.com/2021/03/02/comcast-peak-internet-traffic-rose-32-in-pandemic-in-2020/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22312065/fcc-highspeed-broadband-service-ajit-pai-bennet-angus-king-rob-portman?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/3/mapping-internet-shutdowns-around-the-world

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/t-mobile-unveils-5g-wireless-routers-remote-workers-seeking-bigger-piece-business-market/

AND

• JEDI is back

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/microsoft-s-us-10b-pentagon-deal-at-risk-amid-amazon-fight-1.1572730

Huntress hack_it. http://www.huntress.com/hack_it_2021

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About Business of Tech: The daily MSP news and analysis podcast for managed service providers and IT services leaders. Host Dave Sobel covers AI for MSPs, MSP pricing and profitability, MSP M&A and private equity, vendor partner programs, MSP cybersecurity and liability, and MSP operations — and answers the question every story raises: Why do we care? Produced by MSP Radio.

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Three things to know today

•   That Exchange Server issue continues to blow up, plus two more

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/5/22316189/microsoft-exchange-server-security-exploit-china-attack-30000-organizations

https://thenextweb.com/neural/2021/03/04/researchers-discover-huge-security-holes-in-amazons-skills-for-alexa/

https://www.wired.com/story/ios-android-leaky-apps-cloud/

• A number of broadband developments

https://venturebeat.com/2021/03/02/comcast-peak-internet-traffic-rose-32-in-pandemic-in-2020/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/4/22312065/fcc-highspeed-broadband-service-ajit-pai-bennet-angus-king-rob-portman?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/3/mapping-internet-shutdowns-around-the-world

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/t-mobile-unveils-5g-wireless-routers-remote-workers-seeking-bigger-piece-business-market/

AND

• JEDI is back

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/microsoft-s-us-10b-pentagon-deal-at-risk-amid-amazon-fight-1.1572730

Huntress hack_it.   http://www.huntress.com/hack_it_2021

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Two things to know today

• Google’s ad changes, and why you care

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/03/google-ad-tracking-browser/

AND

• This Week In SolarWinds, with a key unexpected lesson

https://www.zdnet.com/article/solarwinds-security-fiasco-may-have-started-with-simple-password-blunders/

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/26/politics/solarwinds123-password-intern/index.html

https://www.scmagazine.com/access-control/solarwinds-blaming-intern-for-leaked-password-is-symptom-of-security-failures/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/01/solarwinds-sec-inquiry/

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/541254-wray-hints-at-federal-response-to-solarwinds-hack?rl=1

https://apple.news/ADJ-UOni4OkGJ8iQqkFNGAw

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/03/cybersecurity-202-new-government-watchdog-report-highlights-urgent-federal-cybersecurity-risks/

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-7b59e9ea-093f-402c-9288-d5b0f9b362b8.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1

https://www.scmagazine.com/application-security/cloud-based-dev-teams-shift-security-left-to-avoid-being-the-next-solarwinds/

Huntress Lab's hack_it: http://www.huntress.com/hack_it_2021

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