Jon Gold
Staff Writer, Network World
Massachusetts, United States
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Congressional health insurance service hit by data breach
Personally identifiable information relating to members of Congress and their staff may have been exposed in a data breach incident. → Read More
Palo Alto Networks flags top cyberthreats, offers new zero-day protections
The first day of Palo Alto's Ignite conference brings new security features, as the company releases its latest cyberthreat research. → Read More
Ransomware attack knocks Rackspace’s Exchange servers offline
Rackspace’s hosting for Exchange servers remained offline Tuesday after an outage Friday that the company now ascribes to a ransomware attack. → Read More
Palo Alto Networks looks to shore up healthcare IoT security
Machine-learning based visibility and monitoring are at the heart of the cybersecurity company’s new healthcare-focused, add-on application to its core firewall products. → Read More
Meta outlines US involvement in social media disinformation in new report
The social media giant’s latest quarterly adversarial threat report describes three coordinated disinformation networks, one of which appears to originate from the US. → Read More
Amazon shuts Wickr Me encrypted messaging service; enterprise service remains
AWS' free Wickr Me end-to-end encrypted messaging service will close down at the end of 2023, as the company focuses its secure communications on enterprise and government contracts. → Read More
Okta streamlines IAM portfolio with consumer identity management cloud
Incorporation of Auth0 features and more closely integrated management highlights new cloud-based IAM (identity and access management) system. → Read More
AMD posts operating loss, but solid growth for data center, embedded segments
AMD’s quarterly results show a sharp loss in overall operating income, but the company’s data center and embedded businesses look strong enough to help the company weather difficult economic conditions. → Read More
Apple hits the brakes on plans to use Chinese memory chips
The move appears to be a response to tighter US export restrictions, according to a new report. → Read More
Aryaka rolls out cloud-based web gateway for SASE-focused WAN offering
Aryaka's Secure Web Gateway and Firewall-as-a-Service adds cloud-based security services to its Zero Trust WAN platform, as it moves toward providing SASE capabilities for its users. → Read More
Tenable aims to unify your cybersecurity with exposure management platform
Tenable tackles the issue of siloed security apps with a cloud-based exposure management system that pulls in data from diverse types of systems that track a company’s digital assets and identify vulnerabilities. → Read More
Enterprises embrace devsecops practices against supply chain attacks
Healthy developer-team culture and adherence to devsecops best practices to protect against supply chain attacks are surprisingly commonplace in today’s security environment, according to a report from Google and Chainguard → Read More
ITU elects US candidate, quelling concerns about internet fracture
Western observers have been worried that Russian candidate to head ITU, Rashid Ismailov, would promote a plan to restructure the internet, giving nation-states more control and leading to network fragmentation. → Read More
MIT-based startup's cooling tech can cut data center energy costs, footprint
Jetcool says that its use of microconvection enables on-board liquid cooling and makes its devices more effective by a factor of 10, compared to traditional heat sinks or cold plates. → Read More
IT pros say tech budgets to stay strong, but mainly for big companies
Survey data from Spiceworks/Ziff Davis shows a generally strong outlook for IT spending in 2023, but large enterprises are set to be the main beneficiaries of new technology uptake. → Read More
IoT technology is hitting an inflection point for businesses
New data from Omdia shows that IoT deployments are on the rise, with a strong majority of companies already in the process of deploying IoT technology to enhance their operations. → Read More
IT budgets remain solid, despite tech industry headwinds
While war and supply chain disruptions cause headaches for vendors, demand for IT products and services remains high. → Read More
Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition highlights web-based collaboration trends
The cash and stock deal will see Figma become part of the broader Adobe ecosystem, adding collaborative software development to the design company’s list of capabilities. → Read More
IBM, Bharti Airtel partner on edge cloud offerings in India
The collaboration between IBM and Indian telecom Bharti Airtel will complement 5G, offer new opportunities to use edge compute, and support data sovereignty. → Read More
Q-Scout aims for smartphone security without the intrusiveness
A new offering from the recently rebranded Kryptowire—now Quokka—looks to provide mobile application security without infringing on end-user privacy. → Read More