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    30 Sep, 2020
    IDC: Worldwide IT security spend will reach $174.7bn – with government and telecoms set to benefit
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    A distributed workforce, and ongoing work-from-home mandates, have evolved the charter of corporate information technology (IT) organisations. CIOs are now tasked to support flexible working arrangements that require them to

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    29 Sep, 2020
    Who’s Behind Monday’s 14-State 911 Outage?
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    Emergency 911 systems were down for more than an hour on Monday in towns and cities across 14 U.S. states. The outages led many news outlets to speculate the problem was related to Microsoft’s Azure web services platform, which also was struggling with a widespread outage at the time. However, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity the 911 issues stemmed from some kind of technical snafu involving Intrado and Lumen, two companies that together handle 911 calls for a broad swath of the United States. …

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