Boise State created its Cyberdome initiative as a way to promote cybersecurity skill development and create a collaborative hub for competency-based training that aims to reduce cyber risk in rural communities and help expand Idaho’s cyber workforce. Stellar Cyber’s Open XDR Platform will be used as a teaching tool and as the center of the Cyberdome program. It will be available to any rural or remote community interested in using it....

Would you like more free time to spend in the ways you enjoy most, like traveling, playing your favorite games, or even training for a new career? Being more productive could free up some extra time, but many of us sabotage ourselves with bad habits that can be hard to break. However, it doesn’t have to be that way anymore. The Utiself biohacker routine planner app offers an easy, affordable way to boost your productivity and focus as you build a healthy lifestyle, and it’s on sale for $19....

Even better, it’s on sale. New users can get a lifetime subscription to a Stackby Spreadsheet Database Personal Plan for just $69. Stackby is a collaborative workspace that’s flexible and easy to use. It combines the simplicity of spreadsheets with the robust functionality of relational databases, allowing you to connect to more than 2,000 popular apps or services via API connectors that require no code. Plus, you can use it on an unlimited number of devices....

The metaverse project, Otherside, will integrate avatars from a number of NFT projects, including BAYC. Earlier this week, Yuga Labs tweeted a teaser that a metaverse project powered by its new ape-themed crypto coin, Ape Coin was in the works. Among the investors are Andreessen Horowitz along with gaming studio Animoca Brands and cryptofirms FTX which are both already associated with YugaLabs. Google, Samsung, Adidas as well as celebrities such as Colin Kaepernick, Shaquille O’ Neal, Steve Aoki, and Timbaland among others also invested in the funding round....

From August 1, Brazilian organizations processing sensitive data are subject to fines and other administrative sanctions in cases of violation of the General Data Protection Law (LGPD) rules. Brazil’s data protection regulations were introduced in September 2020. At the time, it was determined that organizations would have until August 2021 to adapt to the new rules, despite attempts to push the sanctions to 2022. The board members of the body responsible for enforcing the regulations, the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD), were appointed in October 2020....

Newspaper Valor Econômico reported that TSE president Luis Roberto Barroso is currently discussing measures concerning the app with other Court ministers. The latest developments follow Barroso’s various attempts to contact representatives of the messaging app to no avail. In December 2021, the Court’s president sent a letter to Telegram’s executive director Pavel Durov, requesting a meeting with the company to discuss ways to tackle the spread of false information through the app....

The company reported the incident to the Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) on Thursday (14), saying that it “promptly activated all security protocols” and that it has been gradually restoring its operating environment and working towards resuming normal business as soon as possible. Porto Seguro did not disclose any further details in relation to the type of attack it has suffered but noted that so far, no data leakage had been identified in relation to the company or its subsidiaries, customers or partners, including any personal data....

Codecademy does not provide a way for students to interact with instructors, but there is a community forum where you can get help from other users. Each lesson has its own thread in the forum, and there is a link from the lesson to the forum thread to make it easy to find the answers to your questions if you have trouble with a lesson. You might be wondering, “Is Codecademy free?...

Since 2017, New York-based Rodo has provided an online marketplace for consumers to buy and lease new vehicles from local car dealers. “We have dealerships who show their inventory. We have consumers who come to our app or website, and they’re able to look for vehicles and see pricing and then place an order on the vehicle and have it delivered to their home,” Rodo CEO Nathan Hecht told ZDNet....

Both CentOS Linux forks are completely free for use and are community-based. But, if you need help running either one, it’s available for a price. Started by CentOS co-founder and Rocky Linux founder Gregory Kurtzer, CIQ is now officially offering support services for Rocky Linux. According to Kurtzer, CIQ will be a one-stop resource for Rocky Linux users. It delivers enterprise support and services for businesses and organizations ranging from the smallest of businesses to enterprise-scale companies....

Making investment decisions can be an overwhelming task, with many variables affecting how you choose to allocate and diversify your assets, which is key to the success of your investments. Also: How to use ChatGPT to write Excel formulas For this reason, portfolio management is a task many people seek expert advice on. Lucky for you, the study results show that you can rely on ChatGPT to assist you with your portfolio management needs....

“Virtual currency-related business activities are illegal financial activities,” the People’s Bank of China said in a notice posted to its website on Friday afternoon. They slammed cryptocurrency for “disrupting economic and financial order” and facilitating “illegal and criminal activities” like gambling, fraud, pyramid schemes, money laundering and theft. Also: Bitcoin and 11 more cryptocurrencies you need to know The notice explicitly names Bitcoin, Ether and TEDA, noting that they do “not have the same legal status as legal currency....

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United States Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER) have released a joint advisory to tell admins to patch VMware’s Horizon and Unified Access Gateway (UAG) servers running vulnerable versions of Log4j. VMware’s UAG give employees remote secure accesses to Horizon virtual desktops and apps. Both VMware products were vulnerable to the Log4Shell flaw, CVE-2021-44228, which was disclosed by Log4j maintainer the Apache Software Foundation in December....

One of the key features that Basic Authentication or “Basic Auth” doesn’t support is multi-factor authentication (MFA), which is one of the best protections against identity and password attacks. CISA’s other reason for federal civilian agencies to switch to Modern Auth immediately is that MFA is a requirement under Biden’s cybersecurity executive order 14028 of May 2021, which requires agencies to implement MFA. SEE: Phishing gang that stole millions by luring victims to fake bank websites is broken up by police CISA urges all organizations to make the switch before October 1, which is the day Microsoft will start to switch off Basic Auth tenant by tenant across the world....

Earnings per share were $2.48, up 22%. Wall Street was predicting Microsoft would come in at $50.9 billion for its fiscal second quarter, with profits of $2.31 a share. This was the first time that Microsoft passed $50 billion in a quarter, officials said during its earnings report on January 25. The company executed strongly across all its product groups. Office commercial products and cloud services were up 14%, with Office 365 commercial revenues up 19%....

Customers will be able to order over 250 grocery items via the Wing app, including bread, fresh produce, snacks, convenience meals, health care items, kitchen essentials, and even toilet paper. There will be no minimum spend or delivery fee. The pilot will initially be available to some customers based in Crace, Palmerston, Franklin, Harrison, Mitchell, Giralang, and Kaleen. It will operate from 8am to 4.30pm on weekdays and 9am to 4pm on weekends....

The company filed paperwork with the Attorney General offices in California and Maine, notifying both that the information of 2,747 employees was involved in the attack. The pots and pans manufacturer reported more than $128 million in sales in 2021. In notification letters sent to victims, the company said the attack began “on or around October 25, 2021” and involved driver’s licenses, passports, Permanent Resident Cards and information regarding immigration status, among a host of sensitive information....

Ouch! That’s a lot more bytes. But, Thousand Eyes, a network monitoring company, found that despite this flood of traffic, Internet Service Providers (ISP)s, Content Delivery Networks (CDN)s, and public clouds have kept the bits moving smoothly on the internet superhighway. Using its measurements of network performance metrics such as packet loss, latency, and jitter, ThousandEyes found that, despite a 63% rise in global internet disruptions from January to March 2020 with still 44% more failures in June compared to January, the internet is doing well....

In almost 300,000 cases each year, U.S. surgical patients develop a harmful or potentially deadly infection linked to their procedure. Those infections can happen in virtually any hospital under any doctor’s care, drastically altering a patient’s recovery. On average, a surgical site infection (SSI) can extend a hospital stay by up to 10 days and increase the chances of having to be readmitted to the hospital later by up to four times....

Experts like Digital Shadows Sean Nikkel told ZDNet that what makes Cring interesting is that so far, they appear to specialize in using older vulnerabilities in their attacks. “In a previous incident, Cring operators exploited a two-year-old FortiGate VPN vulnerability to target end-of-life Microsoft and Adobe applications. This should be a wake-up call for system owners everywhere who are using end-of-life or otherwise unsupported systems that are exposed to the internet at large,” Nikkel said....