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Image: Getty Microsoft has released patches for 141 flaws in its August 2022 Patch Tuesday update including two previously undisclosed (zero-day) flaws, of which one is actively being exploited. The total patch count for the August 2022 Patch Tuesday Update actually includes 20 flaws in Edge that Microsoft had previously released fixes for, leaving 121 flaws […] More
Google has unveiled plans to add another three cloud regions in Asia-Pacific, where it is seeing growing demand for data insights, open infrastructures, and online connectivity. When operational, the new sites in Malaysia, Thailand, and New Zealand will push the number in the region to 11 and 34 globally. The cloud vendor’s Asia-Pacific cloud regions include Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and India, each comprising three zones. The three new regions also will each have three zones to safeguard against service disruptions, and will be supported by Google’s existing interconnect locations in Auckland, Bangkok, as well as Kuala Lumpur and Cyberjaya. These provide direct connections between a customer’s on-premises network and Google’s global cloud network, according to Google Cloud’s Asia-Pacific vice president Karan Bajwa. Timelines for when the three new cloud regions would be ready for operations still were being firmed up, with details to be available in the coming months, Bajwa told ZDNet in an email interview. The cloud vendor also was working to identify specific cities in which the new sites would be located for each of the three markets and would provide more details in the coming months, he added. Asked about the size of Google’s cloud customer base across the three Asia-Pacific markets, he declined to share specific numbers but said its current clientele included Malaysia’s Axiata Group, JB Cocoa, and KPJ Healthcare, New Zealand’s Kami, Trade Me, and Vodafone, and Thailand’s Ananda Development, Krungthai Bank, and Siam Cement Group.He said Google was seeing growing demand in the three markets to extract more insights from data to drive business decisions and for “open and flexible” infrastructures that could adapt to changing business requirements. Organisations also were looking to transform the way their employees connected and collaborated amidst hybrid work environments as well as their engagement with customers. Bajwa noted that cloud adoption was growing across all verticals in the three three Asia-Pacific markets, including sectors such as financial services, retail, manufacturing, and telecommunications where demand was particularly robust. Pointing to organisations’ growing focus to secure their systems and users, he said these businesses needed cloud platforms that facilitated data sovereignty and provided control over data location and operations to ensure regulatory compliance. He further stressed the need for “shared fate, not shared responsibility”. “Google Cloud operates with a mutually dependent shared-fate model: if our customers are not secure, then we’re collectively not successful,” he said. “It is our responsibility to be active partners in ensuring our customers deploy securely on our platform and not delineators of where our responsibility ends.”To facilitate this, he said the US vendor advocated security best practices for moving to and operating within its cloud environment, which included a command centre to provide visibility of vulnerabilities and tapping machine learning to help security administrators identify potential incidents. When ready, the new cloud regions would run fully on renewable energy on an annual basis, in line with how all its other sites currently operate, Bajwa said. The new sites also would be operated to meet Google’s target of running carbon-free energy by 2030. RELATED COVERAGE More
Shutterstock Microsoft is adding more security to its Edge browser, which it said will provide an extra layer of protection when browsing the web and visiting “unfamiliar” sites. Microsoft Edge automatically applies “more conservative” security settings in enhanced security mode on unfamiliar sites. ZDNet Recommends The Enhanced Security Mode gives users an extra protection by […] More
Photon photo/Shutterstock Think you’ve been involved in a data breach? This guide will help you find out where and when, and it lists the steps you should take next. Data breaches are security incidents we now hear about every day. They strike every industry, every sector, every county; victim organizations can be everything from small, […] More
A man looking tired and stressed out while sitting at his computer. Image: Getty/PeopleImages Cybersecurity staff are feeling burnout and stressed to the extent that many are considering leaving their jobs. According to research by VMware, 47% of cybersecurity incident responders say they’ve experienced burnout or extreme stress over the past 12 months. While […] More
Image: Shutterstock / stockfour The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) have picked 11 malware families as their top threats. The list is made up of malware that has evolved over the past 10 years as banking trojans, remote access trojans, information stealers, and ransomware delivery […] More
Microsoft has released two new Windows 11 previews to the Windows Insider Beta Channel with improvements to Defender for Endpoint’s ransomware protections and other fixes. Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Beta Channel builds have included two releases: a higher build number with features rolling out, and a lower build number with features off by default. In this case, build 22622.450 and 22621.450 don’t appear to be very different as both builds received fixes and other improvements. “We enhanced Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s ability to identify and intercept ransomware and advanced attacks,” Microsoft’s Insider Program managers explained. That’s all Microsoft has to say about the enhancement for Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft’s endpoint security solution for enterprise to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats. Microsoft has several Windows tools to protect against ransomware, such as Controlled folder access for Windows, which can be configured with Defender for Endpoint to display a notification when an app tries to make changes to a file in a protected folder. The Windows 11 previews also improved storage replication over low bandwidth or congested wide area networks (WANs). For organizations that have configured Server Message Block (SMB) compression, Windows now compresses the file no matter its size. The updates fix issues with IE Mode in Edge, a process that causes a high amount of CPU usage, and tablet mode bugs. Microsoft’s August update to the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) targets improvements for those who’d like to use Android games on a Windows PC. The primary WSA gaming updates are improvements to the Settings app for compatibility for games with joysticks, gamepad, aiming in games with arrow keys, and sliding in games with arrow keys. There are also WSA improvements to scrolling, networking, windows sizing, and security updates. More
Getty / Uwe Krejci Google is always looking to make the Android platform more secure. Way back in 2018 (with Android still enjoying tasty treat nicknames, such as Pie), the developers introduced what’s called lockdown mode. Essentially, lockdown mode protects those who prefer to keep their private information from unwanted eyes. When lockdown mode is […] More
