by Contributed | Oct 19, 2021 | Business, Microsoft 365, Technology
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When the working world split between those who could work from home and those who could not, the frontline transformed beyond anyone’s expectations. Frontline workers—the associates at the forefront of your customer interactions, the clinicians delivering patient care, and those running your operations on the ground—have long been underserved by technology and are only now…
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by Scott Muniz | Oct 18, 2021 | Security, Technology
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CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Security Agency (NSA) have released joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA): BlackMatter Ransomware.
Since July 2021, malicious cyber actors have used BlackMatter ransomware to target multiple U.S. critical infrastructure entities, including a U.S. Food and Agriculture Sector organization. Using an analyzed sample of BlackMatter ransomware and information from trusted third parties, this CSA provides cyber actor tactics, techniques, and procedures and outlines mitigations to improve ransomware protection, detection, and response.
To reduce the risk of BlackMatter ransomware, CISA, FBI, and NSA encourage organizations to implement the recommended mitigations in the joint CSA and visit StopRansomware.gov for more information on protecting against and responding to ransomware attacks.
by Scott Muniz | Oct 18, 2021 | Security
This article was originally posted by the FTC. See the original article here.
As today’s annual report to Congress makes clear, the safety of older consumers in the marketplace is a priority for the FTC. Protecting Older Consumers 2020 – 2021: A Report of the Federal Trade Commission summarizes the agency’s ongoing law enforcement efforts, new research results, and extensive outreach aimed at keeping older adults safe from scams including those related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Here are some highlights of the report:
Law enforcement: In the past year, the FTC sued numerous schemes that targeted or had a negative effect on older adults. For example, the FTC charged that:
- A business marketing stem cell therapy made false claims that its therapy was effective in treating arthritis and joint pain;
- Sellers of CBD products made claims, without scientific support, about their products’ ability to treat Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and other serious conditions;
- Promoters of investment related services falsely claimed they would help people make consistent profits and beat the market.
Research results: An analysis of fraud loss reports filed with the FTC in 2020 shows which scams people 60+ were likely to report losing money to — when compared with adults aged 20 to 59. These include tech support scams, prize, lottery or sweepstakes scams, and friend or family imposter scams. And, significantly, older adults reported losing about $139 million to romance scams in 2020 — the scam category with the highest total reported loss — which is a sharp increase from $84 million in 2019.
Outreach efforts: The FTC aimed to protect older adults from scams by, among other things, sharing our Pass It On campaign materials and issuing Consumer Alerts. Taken together, this outreach has covered topics of interest to older adults, including government impersonator scams, COVID-19 vaccine scams, online safety, and family emergency and mystery shopper scams. In the past year, the FTC engaged in hundreds of public outreach events, meetings, webinars, and other gatherings to help older adults avoid, spot, and report scams.
If a scam affects you, your loved ones, or people in your community, please tell the Federal Trade Commission at ReportFraud.ftc.gov. Your reports help us understand what’s happening in your community.
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by Scott Muniz | Oct 18, 2021 | Security
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Every year, charity regulators from around the word get together to raise awareness about charity fraud. The FTC joins this effort again this year because it’s so important to know how to spot a charity scam. The more you know, the less likely you’ll donate to a bogus charity. Better yet, you’ll make sure your money is helping in the way you intended.
Follow us on Facebook and on Twitter at #StopCharityFraud to get the latest advice on how to avoid charity scams. This year, we’re focusing on:
You can help people make sure their donations reach real charities, not scammers. This week, join in to raise awareness in your community about charity scams:
- Share our videos on social media
- Follow us at Facebook.com/FederalTradeCommission and at Twitter.com/FTC
- Create your own social media posts using ideas from ftc.gov/charity. Don’t forget to tag @FTC and use #StopCharityFraud
- Report charity scams at ReportFraud.ftc.gov
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by Contributed | Oct 18, 2021 | Technology
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Intro
Log Analytics continues it’s journey to improve and fine tune our experiences.
One of the core Log Analytics experiences is the ability to save, share and re-use queries.
We have recently invested in updating and upgrading our query experience with a new modern UI.
Today we are happy to announce that all of our query experiences will be consolidated in the same UI – allowing a single experience for all types of queries in Logs.
Query Explorer
Query explorer’s functionality is now available in our new query experience only.
The query explorer experience is fully replaced by the new UI.
Please note, there’s no change to any of the API experiences – so everything ‘simply works’, there’s no investment nor changes needed to enable the new experiences.
The new Query Experiences
All Log Analytics experiences have been consolidated to a new, modern UI in the Logs blade.
See the following articles for additional details:
1. Log Analytics Legacy Queries in the new Query UI
2. Legacy Queries Save/Edit Experience
Query packs
Alongside supporting our Legacy Queries, the team has recently introduced a new way for saving, sharing and managing queries in Log Analytics- Query packs.
Using Query packs to save and manage your queries has a lot of advantages over using Legacy Queries. to name a few:
1. Resource centric queries – Legacy Queries only work in Log Analytics workspaces and Application insights and are attached only to one workspaces/AI component. Query packs may be used in all Log Analytics context and may be shared between different resources.
2. Rich metadata and smart filtering – Query packs queries contain rich metadata allowing more control over the queries and easier management and discovery experiences.
3. Enhanced security – Query packs are ARM objects. As such, you may manage access and security at the query pack level
4. Manage queries using code – Query packs API supports advanced deployment and management of your query packs and queries.
We recommend using query packs to manage your Log Analytics queries.
To learn more about query packs – click here.
Feedback
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