Chances are if you're reading this you already work in the tech sector. If you don't then a new study suggests you might well want to.

The Great Resignation has been driven by a desire for change across industries and research from telecoms company BT shows that 69 percent of UK employees would consider a career change if given the opportunity, and 18 percent want to switch to tech.

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Canonical has announced the general availability of OpenStack Yoga on Ubuntu 22.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Beta and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

What does this mean? Yoga, the latest version of OpenStack, provides a foundation for next-generation, highly performant infrastructure as needed by telco NFV (Network Functions Visualization), media streaming, traffic analysis and high-performance computing (HPC) services.

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Today is World Backup Day, which is a good opportunity to remind you that you only have a couple of days left to get your hands on some free backup software courtesy of our AOMEI giveaway.

It's also an opportunity to look at the continued importance of backups even in the modern world of clouds and SaaS applications. A new report from Crucial highlights the ongoing cost of data breaches which has risen 9.8 percent from 2020 to 2021.

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A new study commissioned by Imperva from Forrester Research finds 58 percent of sensitive data security incidents are caused by insider threats.

And yet 31 percent of firms don't believe insiders are a substantial threat. Indeed only 37 percent of participants report having dedicated insider threat teams, and 70 percent of organizations in the EMEA region don't have a strategy for stopping insider threats.

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Credential phishing continues to be the top threat facing organizations, increasing 10 percentage points since 2020, accounting for 67 percent of all phishing emails now observed.

The latest Annual State of Phishing Report from Cofense also reveals that 52 percent of all credential phishing attempts observed by the Cofense Phishing Defense Center (PDC) were branded as Microsoft.

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Edge devices, including smart meters, smart home assistants, connected vehicles, and other IoT devices, rely primarily on the cloud for computing resource due to their small size and power limitations.

This means they need a constant data link to work effectively and that brings its own problems. Technology company Cognifiber has announced the development of a glass-based 'photonic chip' that has the potential to revolutionize edge computing.

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The latest annual AI Adoption in the Enterprise survey from O'Reilly finds that over the last two years the number of organizations with AI applications in production has remained steady at 26 percent.

However, many enterprises still lack AI governance. Among respondents with AI products in production, the number of those whose organizations have a governance plan in place to oversee how projects are created, measured, and observed (49 percent) is roughly the same as those that don't (51 percent).

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A new study carried out by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by passwordless authentication platform company Nok Nok Labs, shows the significant costs to businesses that result from authentication failures and weaknesses.

According to the study, which surveyed 1,007 IT staff, IT security leaders, and line of business leaders, the average business losses across all types of authentication weaknesses range from $39 million to $42 million.

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Third-party cookies are already blocked by Firefox and Safari and will also be blocked by Google Chrome by the end of 2023. But new research from Twilio shows 81 percent of companies still rely on them, while 85 percent of consumers want brands to use only first-party data.

The change is likely to bring more issues for brands that rely on such cookies to identify and track visitors to their websites. More than half (55 percent) of companies say they are not fully prepared for a cookieless world, and 42 percent predict that the impending changes will lead to lower returns on their marketing spend.

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In the light of President Biden's new legislation requiring critical infrastructure organizations to disclose cyber incidents to the government within 72 hours, new research from BitSight shows how unprepared many are to meet the strict disclosure requirements.

Based on analysis of more than 12,000 publicly disclosed cyber incidents between 2019 and 2022, the research finds it takes the average organization 105 days to discover and disclose an incident from the date it occurred.

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With this year's World Backup Day on March 31st approaching fast, AOMEI is giving BetaNews readers the chance to get their hands on $109.89 worth of software free of charge.

AOMEI Backupper Professional allows Windows PC users to backup and clone their drives. It's a handy tool if you’ve been putting off upgrading to Windows 11 because it allows you to roll back to an earlier OS if the update fails.

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The public sector has the highest proportion of security flaws in its applications along with some of the lowest and slowest fix rates compared to other industry sectors.

A new report from application security testing company Veracode finds 82 percent of public sector applications have security flaws and that 60 percent of flaws in third-party libraries in the public sector remain unfixed after two years.

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We all make mistakes from time to time, but a cybersecurity error could cost you your job according to a new report.

The study from email security company Tessian finds almost one in four respondents (21 percent) lost their job as a result of a security mistake that compromised their company’s security -- up from 12 percent in 2020.

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The average time to known exploitation of vulnerabilities is 12 days, down from 42 days last year, according to the latest Rapid7 Annual Vulnerability Intelligence report.

Of 50 2021 vulnerabilities looked at in the report, 43 were exploited in the wild and 52 percent of the known exploited vulnerabilities in this report came under attack within one week of public disclosure.

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It's tempting to look at the hype surrounding AI and see it as a solution to all problems. But AI isn't perfect, there have been some notable failures, often due to poorly defined models.

What are the consequences of getting it wrong, and how can businesses ensure their AI projects stay on track? We spoke to Alessya Visnjic, CEO of AI observability specialist WhyLabs to find out.

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