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Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks are no longer limited to traditional email accounts. Attackers are finding new ways to conduct their schemes -- and organizations need to be prepared to defend themselves.

Attackers are leveraging a new scheme called Business Communication Compromise to take advantage of large global corporations, government agencies and individuals. They are leveraging collaboration tools beyond email that include: chat and mobile messaging -- including popular cloud-based applications such as Slack, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and many more -- to carry out attacks.

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Code-agnostic development is the future of cloud-native applications. Sure, there are plenty of benefits to knowing a coding language inside and out, but the field is evolving beyond the requirements for deep language expertise. As low-code and no-code platforms abstract complexity, developers can focus on higher-level concepts. The ability to jump from language to language will make them more efficient and adaptable.

Software industries evolve by abstracting complexity of lower-level tasks. If done correctly, this leads to better user productivity and outcomes. This movement in development is fueling the new approach to languages, allowing development teams to operate successfully with coding knowledge a mile wide and an inch deep. The trend of multi-lingual developers will propel the industry into the future. Let's take a look at how these experts developed.

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Passwords are a problem. They are difficult to remember, often easily guessed or cracked, and generally just a pain. Google is looking to help by adding secure, password-free login to Chrome 108 thanks to newly added passkey support.

The security feature is available to users of Windows 11, macOS and Android, and it follows a short period of beta testing. Backed by the likes of the FIDO Alliance, Microsoft, Apple, and -- of course -- Google, passkeys are a step away from the password managers so many of us have become reliant on.

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One of the problems with signing up for just about any online service, particularly social platforms, is trying to bag yourself the username you want. On Twitter, this could be about to get a bit easier.

It is no secret that since Elon Musk took over the company, Twitter users have been leaving the site in droves, mainly to Mastodon. Add to this the number of accounts that were set up years ago and never used, accounts that have fallen inactive and there are a lot of Twitter handles that could be opened up to new owners -- and this is precisely what is on the cards.

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The December 2022 Bug Bash is well underway for Windows Insiders in both the Dev and Beta Channels.

For insiders in the Dev channel, today also sees the arrival of a new Windows 11 build in time for the weekend. Build 25262 comes with a number of fixes and Microsoft has also dropped the sign-in requirement for the widgets board and made it available for all users.

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The way we live and work has changed forever -- and our workspaces are changing alongside. According to the Office of National Statistics, 84 percent of workers who worked from home planned to carry out a mix of working at home and in offices in the future, while research from Poly shows 77 percent of businesses are redesigning their office spaces to better suit new ways of working.

What constitutes an "office" is a very broad definition -- it could be a home, a local café or pub, or an actual physical office. And the role of the company office has changed. More than everyday tasks, it’s now a space for special events and meetings that would once have happened at an off-site.

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When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in early 2020, businesses around the world pivoted quickly to respond to an event that had the potential to disrupt or ruin their markets and business models. In a matter of weeks and months, they sent their employees home to work. Some business functions shifted to mobile apps, other business applications to the cloud. Enterprises embraced new communication tools and technologies to stay connected to their suppliers, partners, customers and workers, no matter where they were located around the world.

Every key shift in business operations relied on dependable, secure and often global connectivity. Today, as the post-pandemic picture comes into focus, a key question arises: Are businesses ready for what’s next? 

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Who doesn’t like to get something for free, especially in these challenging times? There are always bargains to be had if you shop around, but why save money when you can avoid paying out anything at all!

To celebrate the upcoming holidays, software developer AOMEI is making $1,300 worth of paid software available for free. This includes the company’s own AOMEI Backupper Pro (worth $39.95) and AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro (worth $39.95), as well as a year’s worth of AnyViewer Professional (a saving of $118.80), Wise Care 365 Pro (worth $39.95), Ashampoo WinOptimzer (worth $49.99) and IObit Driver Booster Pro (worth $37.42).

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What began as a mechanical business now exists as one of the most well-known industries worldwide: the automotive industry has seen more than one hundred years of gradual evolution, that is, until recently.

The automotive industry’s past decade has seen a rapid digital transformation that’s given rise to electric and connected vehicles. The first quarter of 2022 saw a whopping 60 percent increase in electric vehicle registrations, pushing the EV share of the US market to a historic high of 4.6 percent.

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Five-hundred-and-twenty in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days.

Microsoft released an out-of-band update for Windows 10 this week that improves updating to Windows 11. It prompts users to update to Windows 11 when new major updates are released for the operating system.

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This week marks the first anniversary of the Log4j/Log4Shell vulnerability affecting the Java logging library and as we noted recently many organizations are still vulnerable even though patched versions were quickly available.

Sonatype has produced a resource center to show the current state of the vulnerability, along with a tool to help businesses scan their open source code to see if it's affected.

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With the UK government reporting that nearly 40 percent of UK businesses were hit by cyber attacks last year, keeping on top of cyber security has become a mission critical need.

Of those UK businesses and charities that were impacted, 83 percent identified phishing as being the most common attack vector. The government is urging these organizations to strengthen against phishing attacks such as business email compromise as they continue to grow in volume and frequency.

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There’s one voice that matters more than any other: the voice of the customer. Learn how to fully understand the number one source of your organization’s prosperity, profits, and productivity. These actionable insights will help you to better connect with your customers and gain an undeniable lead over your competition.

Listen Up!: How to Tune In to Customers and Turn Down the Noise teaches readers how to create a customer experience that’s built on listening and designed for engagement. 

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Increasingly consumers and businesses alike are relying on portable devices, and that means it's important that apps are available across several different systems.

We spoke to Jerome Laban, CTO of Uno Platform -- which allows Microsoft developers, using traditional C# and XAML, to take their apps to iOS, Android, Mac, Linux, and the web -- to find out more about cross-platform development and how it can future-proof applications.

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With 2023 just around the corner, thoughts may well be turning to New Year's resolutions -- and that certainly seems to be the case for Chrome. Just as many people use the arrival of a new year as a reason to go on a diet, so Google is making its web browser less greedy.

Chrome has earned itself something of a reputation for being incredibly resource-hungry, and Google is now ready to address what amounts to a serious problem for many people. What does this mean in practice? Google is reducing Chrome memory and power consumption thanks to Energy Saver and Memory Saver.

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