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Despite initial results, are executives and employees growing frustrated with working from home and concerned that it’s killing innovation? Yes, but there are other ways to foster innovation. Image: iStock/EtiAmmos Working from home is affecting all teams differently, but some believe it’s stifling innovation. A recent article in The Wall . . . Read more

UHS reportedly hit with ransomware that took down its network that supports hundreds of healthcare facilities and hospitals. Universal Health Services, one of the largest hospital and healthcare services providers in the US, confirmed today that the IT network that supports its facilities is offline in the wake of what . . . Read more

Enterprise VulnerabilitiesFrom DHS/US-CERT’s National Vulnerability Database CVE-2020-26120PUBLISHED: 2020-09-27 XSS exists in the MobileFrontend extension for MediaWiki before 1.34.4 because section.line is mishandled during regex section line replacement from PageGateway. Using crafted HTML, an attacker can elicit an XSS attack via jQuery’s parseHTML method, which can cause image callbacks to fire . . . Read more

Assessing the security posture of devices is an important part of securing data and communications. Follow these steps to make sure you do it correctly. Image: iStock/Stock Depot More about cybersecurity One surefire way to find out what security issues are present within your organization is to fall victim to . . . Read more

The Joker malware has been a persistent thorn in Google’s side as it keeps popping up in shady apps to infect users of the Google Play store. Image: iStock/CarmenMurillo Google has long been locked in a battle with cybercriminals who create and submit malicious apps to the Play store that . . . Read more

Ransomware continues to be a cybersecurity threat. Tom Merritt lists five additional things to know about ransomware. 5 more things to know about ransomware Ransomware. You’ve probably heard me talk about it before and I’m going to talk about it again. It shockingly has not gone away and there are new . . . Read more

Windows 10 allows users to talk to their computers, but the list of possible commands is significant. We provide a handy reference to the most common speech recognition commands. Image: iStock/fizkes Practically from the beginning, navigating commands in Microsoft Windows has been made easier by the inclusion of keyboard shortcut . . . Read more