For Cisco advisory CISO Helen Patton, that dream leaves out lots of organisations that are struggling underneath the security poverty line. “We’ve got a lot of organisations that don’t have the resources to be able to participate in that kind of environment. They’ve got old pieces of equipment, they don’t do automation, they don’t have the resources to make it happen, they’re never going to engage in that kind of environment,” Patton told ZDNet....

“As a result of impacts to other network infrastructure assets, NBN services to around 7,500 premises remain affected in outer East Melbourne in areas such as Emerald, Montrose, Belgrave, Croydon and into the Dandenong and Yarra Ranges,” NBN said in its blog on the outage. “It is likely that power restoration to some areas at this stage may take until Thursday this week, which will delay the restoration of NBN services in these areas....

Review: Garmin’s Enduro 2 is the ultra sports watch to beat While there are a ton of reasons to love the Enduro 2, it turns out that one function I use just about every single day is the integrated LED light found at the top of the watch. It is advertised as being twice as bright as the flashlight on the Fenix 7X and just like the best camera is the one that is with you, the best flashlight may be the one that is always on your wrist....

Need a smartphone that has all this and more, all built into a ruggedized shell capable of handling tough situations with ease? The AGM Glory G1S might be the smartphone you’ve been waiting for. Design Externally, the Glory G1S is like a lot of other ruggedized smartphones. A huge slab of a smartphone wrapped in protective rubber armor, with little flaps covering all the ports to prevent water ingress. The smartphone claims it’s rated waterproof and dustproof to IP68/IP69K and drop tested from 1....

Often, people say no because they’re in a rush, or they assume there’s some catch in the fine print, and they just don’t want to deal with it. Sometimes, people do sign up to get those extra savings. Are the cards worth it, though? For the most part, they’re not. [This article was first published on The Simple Dollar in 2020. It was updated in March 2022.] Also: The best store credit cards This is especially important when you consider that bonus in comparison to the reward you’re already getting from your primary card....

Testers have spotted that a recent Windows 11 preview update presents a watermark on the desktop wallpaper when it detects the hardware doesn’t meet Microsoft’s strict minimum requirements, as reported by The Verge. It also produces an alert within the Settings app. Microsoft requires PC hardware that has at least 4GB of memory and 64GB of storage; UEFI secure boot enabled; a graphics card that’s compatible with DirectX 12 or later, with a WDDM 2....

Think again. Microsoft says it will offer Cloud PCs running Windows 11 when the new OS reaches General Availability later this year. But for now, the only way to try Windows 11 is by installing a preview build. You’re welcome to connect a Cloud PC to the Windows Insider Program and download the latest version, but I predict that installation will fail. The only way to recover is to visit the Windows 365 dashboard and hit the Reset button, which will in turn wipe out all your customizations....

This shift is reflected in the Australian retail grocery giant’s latest half-year results, with the company reporting group e-commerce sales jumped 48% year-on-year to AU$3.5 billion for the period. E-commerce sales penetration grew from 8.1% to 11.6% and average weekly traffic to group digital platforms jumped by 30.5% to AU$23 million. “While the far-reaching impacts of COVID resulted in one of the most challenging halves we have experienced, we ended H1 strongly with positive trading momentum and helped our customers enjoy a much-needed Christmas celebration and festive holiday season,” Woolworths Group CEO Brad Banducci said....

The human resources and financial cloud software company is launching Workday Scheduling and Labor Optimization. The new tools allow companies to shift schedule and give frontline workers flexibility and control. Hourly and shift workers, often called frontline employees, have been in short supply. Workers are reevaluating careers in healthcare, hospitality, retail and leisure. Companies are looking to engage these frontline workers and avoid shortages. Workday launched Workday Scheduling in May and now is adding Labor Optimization....

Those rumors were true, with Apple adding custom workouts, new watch faces and several more new health features to its wearable. Apple demonstrated several new health features that focused on providing more data about your workouts, including heart rate zones, and more data in general about your physical health. In addition to adding new health features to the watch, Apple is making the Fitness app available to all iPhone users in iOS 16....

“This decision was made in accordance with our commitment to protecting the health and safety of our employees and partners, which remains our top priority,” the Korean giant said. “We will also take all necessary measures, including leveraging our global manufacturing network, to ensure that our customers are not affected.” According to The Korea Economic Daily, the fabs in Xian make up 42.5% of Samsung’s NAND output, and translates to over 15% of production globally....

Just what you need on a Tuesday afternoon. The UK government has issued a warning to Android users to prepare for the “small chance” of an emergency alert being delivered to their smartphone between 1pm and 2pm. The alert might cause the phone to make a siren sound – don’t panic! – and will say the following: Don’t want this happening while you’re driving or working or having a nap this afternoon?...

It isn’t. In fact, it’s quite disturbing the lengths that Apple has gone to in order to retain control over your iPhone. It’s become so bad that you can’t swap genuine parts from one iPhone with parts out of another iPhone. Here is ‘Right to Repair" advocate Hugh Jeffreys taking a look at the iPhone 13. In fact, to film this video, Jeffreys took two iPhone 13 handsets and expertly took them apart to see how easy – or hard – it is to swap parts and repair them....

The YubiKey Bio uses a three-chip architecture that stores the biometric fingerprint in a separate secure element, offering protection from physical attacks. This, according to Yubico, allows the YubiKey Bio to “act as a single, trusted hardware-backed root of trust which allows the user to authenticate with the same key across multiple desktop devices, operating systems, and applications.” For when biometrics are not supported, users can enter a PIN entered during the initial setup....

The Zhiyun Smooth 5 is available for $169 and $219. The $219 combo package comes with some additional goodies; a protective bag, fill light and filters, ZY Cami one-year prime service card, and a wrist strap. The protective bag is well constructed, but I’m not sure the combination package is worth the additional $50 price. See also: Best camera phone 2021: Take the best photos and videos. Gimbals provide 3-axis stabilization with internal motors that activate after you mount your phone and then turn on the gimbal....

“We are continuously looking for new ways to deliver happiness to our users and improve meeting productivity, and MT solutions will be key in enhancing our platform for Zoom customers across the globe,” said Velchamy Sankarlingam, president of product and Engineering at Zoom. “With our aligned missions to make collaboration frictionless – regardless of language, geographic location, or other barriers – we are confident Kites’ impressive team will fit right in with Zoom....

On Tuesday, Project Zero researcher Natalie Silvanovich published an analysis of the security flaws, the results of an investigation inspired by a zero-click attack against the videoconferencing tool demonstrated at Pwn2Own. “In the past, I hadn’t prioritized reviewing Zoom because I believed that any attack against a Zoom client would require multiple clicks from a user,” the researcher explained. “That said, it’s likely not that difficult for a dedicated attacker to convince a target to join a Zoom call even if it takes multiple clicks, and the way some organizations use Zoom presents interesting attack scenarios....

Microsoft SQL is one of the top three database technologies, so skills in this field are always valuable. This e-learning bundle is made up of just two sections, but they are filled with all of the knowledge you’ll need to jump right into a career in relational database management systems (RDBMS). This is the framework that supports a wide variety of business intelligence, transaction processing, and analytics applications in the IT environments of the corporate world....

Facebook’s hours-long outage on Sunday was a stark reminder of how dependent people have become on one company’s data centers that power the world’s biggest social networks. As ZDNet’s Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reported this week, Facebook’s servers for its internet address book – a Domain Name Server (DNS) – wasn’t functioning, making Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram unavailable for reasons that most of its two billion users won’t understand. SEE: Why Facebook is the AOL of 2021 Facebook’s DNS was broken because Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes into Facebook’s sites were failing....

The new KDE-branded Slimbook aspires to give KDE fans hardware that runs smoothly out of the box with its software, which doesn’t always happen after replacing a Windows desktop with a Linux distribution. KDE hopes the hardware will open up its software to new users outside its community of developers. See also: The 10 best Windows laptops The KDE Slimbook is available with a 2.3GHz Intel i5 processor, which starts at €729 ($779), while the 2....