In a statement to ZDNet, the company said it discovered the ransomware attack on Friday, January 28. “As soon as we became aware of the incident, we enacted our cybersecurity response plan and engaged a leading forensic information technology firm and legal counsel to assist us in our investigation,” a company spokesperson said. “Our internal IT teams continue to work with third-party experts to assess the situation. We have been continuing to keep our colleagues, customers, and suppliers informed of any developments and apologize for any disruption this may have caused....

Carried out by Cetic.br, the research arm of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, the study investigates the challenges and strategies for the continuity of learning through the pandemic. The report has five chapters with examples from various countries, and an analysis of the approaches adopted to deliver classes amid the Covid-19 shutdowns, of which two are dedicated to the Brazilian experience. Themes such as digital exclusion in the context of remote learning are included in the report, as well as the adoption of solutions for contexts with or without the use of technology....

Also: Leaving LastPass? Here’s how to get your passwords out The password manager company first revealed that it had been hacked in August last year when it said attackers had accessed the development environment, taking portions of LastPass source code and some proprietary technical information. At the time, LastPass said there was no evidence that the attackers gained access to customer data or sensitive encrypted vaults. But this changed last December, when LastPass revealed hackers had stolen vault data containing both encrypted and unencrypted data – including information about customers....

The metaverse is almost like a new country, with everything starting from scratch, building from the ground up. There will be shops, offices, and companies providing various services. Even new venues in the metaverse will host different events such as concerts or other kinds of shows. This new evolutionary step in the internet’s progress will have a significant impact on the ways that we’ll communicate and interact. This course will provide an overview of precisely what the metaverse is, what we need to know about it and what options exist to capitalize on it....

I rode the Lectric XP Lite for about a month, and even though I have a very powerful e-bike priced three times the Lectric XP Lite, I didn’t want to stop riding the XP Lite because it is so much fun to ride and meets my minimum level of performance standards for commuting and getting around town. Review: Lectric XP 3.0: This e-bike is built for two Lectric currently has four different series of e-bikes available, but I wanted to see what the company’s lowest end model was like since I know many family and friends have asked me about e-bikes and don’t want to spend thousands to try them out....

It’s certainly worth looking out for, as the ThinkBook 16p Gen 2 is an attractive 16-inch laptop whose combination of AMD Ryzen 9 processor and discrete GeForce RTX graphics holds out the promise of workstation-class performance at a competitive price. Design & features This is not the sleekest 16-inch laptop, measuring 19.9mm (0.78in.) thick along the rear edge. However, the ThinkBook 16p Gen 2 only weighs 2kg (4.4lbs), which is pretty good for a laptop of this size – especially as the smart, dark grey aluminium case meets the US military standard MIL-STD-810H for impact and shock resistance....

The library is developed by the open-source Apache Software Foundation and is a key Java-logging framework. Since last week’s alert by CERT New Zealand that CVE-2021-44228, a remote code execution flaw in Log4j, was already being exploited in the wild, warnings have been issued by several national cybersecurity agencies, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare said Log4j exploits started on December 1....

You can preorder the new iPad Pro now, with availability beginning Oct. 26, the same day as in-store availability. Also: iPad (2022) vs iPad (2021): Which tablet should you buy? Before you click that buy button, though, take a few minutes to figure out if you really need that shiny new iPad Pro, or if last year’s model is more than enough for your needs. Don’t worry, I’ll help break it down for you....

Of the 59% of respondents sure of an oncoming recession, almost 30% believe we are already experiencing a recession, and 26% expect a recession to begin as early as the end of this year. Respondents are C-suite executives from all over the world, and although their sentiments on an impending recession are similar, depending on geographic location, their responses slightly differ. SEE: Nearly half of small business owners fear recession before the end of 2022: Survey Executives from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East have strong opinions on the matter: three-quarters of these respondents believe a recession is on its way as early as the end of this year, while the rest don’t see a recession happening until early 2023....

The company said the magnetic stripe will start to disappear in newly-issued Mastercard credit and debit cards in Europe, while banks in the United States will no longer be required to issue chip cards with a magnetic stripe starting in 2027. By 2029, no new Mastercard credit or debit cards will be issued with a magnetic stripe, except for prepaid cards in the US and Canada, and Mastercard expects that none of its credit or debit cards will have a magnetic stripe by 2033....

Of course, Web3 will be a success. Everyone will want it. Because every VC and tech company will want everyone to want it. Sometimes, though, human life decides to twist in a different direction and tech luminaries lose a touch of their (self-administered) shine. It seems like but a few short years ago that technology was taking food beneath its metallic wing and turning it into something very different. Plant-based was the thing, and who were you to argue?...

“We have been in contact with the government of Ukraine. At their request, we have restricted access to several accounts in Ukraine, including those belonging to some Russian state media organisations,” Meta VP global affairs Nick Clegg wrote in a tweet. “We are also reviewing other government requests to restrict Russian state-controlled media.” The steps taken by the social media giant are in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which began four days ago....

Reality Labs hardware costs are expected to grow in the coming months, Meta said in a statement attributed to CFO David Wehner, “driven by the launch of our next generation of our consumer Quest headset later next year.” The confirmation comes a couple weeks after Meta unveiled the Quest Pro – a version of the headset targeted at business and enterprise users. That device’s capabilities have been tailored for “collaboration and productivity,” with full-color AR to power virtual workspaces, conference rooms and collaborative design projects....

The ‘powerdir’ bug, which Apple fixed in its December 13 update for macOS up to Monterey, lets an attacker bypass TCC to gain access to a user’s protected data. The bug was discovered by Microsoft security researcher Jonathan Bar Or. Microsoft is interested in macOS security because Defender for Endpoint can be used in an enterprise to protect non-Windows devices. Microsoft’s 365 Defender Research Team noted in a blog post that Apple introduced a feature to protect TCC that “prevents unauthorized code execution and enforced a policy that restricts access to TCC to only apps with full disk access....

From what I can tell, this option may have been around for three months or more. There is a LinkedIn Help article entitled “Choose if you want to see less political content in your LinkedIn feed,” which was updated three months ago. The article explains that users in the US can hide political content from their feeds as an option. It defines “political content” this way: “Currently, political content includes content such as political parties and candidates, election outcomes, and ballot initiatives....

The key change in this month’s Patch Tuesday update for the bug CVE-2021-34481, aka PrintNightmare, is that users will need admin rights to install print drivers. The bug, stemming from a flaw in the Windows Print Spooler service, allows a local attacker to escalate privileges to the level of ‘system’ – an outcome that lets them install malware and create new accounts on Windows 10 machines. SEE: HP patches vulnerable driver lurking in printers for 16 years The patch arrived with Microsoft’s August 2021 Patch Tuesday update, which included a patch for CVE-2021-36936, a distinct Windows Print Spooler remote code execution vulnerability....

The hardware requirements for Windows 10 are 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor or SoC; 1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM for 32-bit or 2 GB of RAM for 64-bit: and 16 GB of disk space for 32-bit OS or 20 GB for 64-bit OS. From today’s blog post: “Now that we are moving Dev Channel forward with newer Windows 11 builds than what will be released to customers on October 5th, those PCs have been opted out of flighting and likely see the message below in the Windows Insider Program settings page....

Also: Microsoft just blew up the only reason you can’t use a Linux desktop Windows 365 will be available in Business and Enterprise flavors, Microsoft officials said this week. Derek Gabriel (@dsghi on Twitter) shared a screen capture of one of the Windows 365 Business SKUs that showed it would cost $31 per user per month. This is for the 2vCPU, 4GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage version for customers with up to 300 users....

The additional phishing protection in Teams is available for organizations using Defender for Office 365 to guard against phishing attacks that use weaponized URLs. While email is the standard medium for delivering phishing links, Teams usage exploded during the pandemic, making it an attractive target for phishing. As Microsoft outlined earlier this year as part of its ‘hybrid work messaging’, time spent in Teams meetings grew 2.5 times globally between February 2020 and February 2021....

The company said 80 million people are using Microsoft Teams Phone and it said calls originating from chats are occurring 50% more frequently than this time last year. Microsoft expects the new Teams Phone features to help make the phone an easier part of workflows. For example, Teams Phone now lets users transfer between different endpoints without interrupting a call. Users need to open the Teams app on the device the call will be transferred to and then tap it to move the call....