New three-year agreement to pull S/4HANA customers into Azure SAP and Microsoft have linked arms as part of SAP’s “Project Embrace”, a collaboration with Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform aimed at migrating the German firm’s customers to the public cloud.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Microsoft today announced a new initiative to combat threats specifically targeted at the firmware level and data stored in memory: Secured-core PCs. From a report: Microsoft partnered with chip and computer makers to apply “security best practices of isolation and minimal trust to the firmware layer, or the device core, that underpins the Windows operating…

…read more Source:: PacketStorm

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Research blames ‘culture of trust’ for weak fraud protections UK charities are misjudging the risks of fraud, according to research from the Charity Commission and the Fraud Advisory Panel.… …read more Source:: Register

U.S. lawmakers from both parties slammed Apple and Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook last week for “censorship of apps” at the “behest of the Chinese government.” From a report: Senators Ted Cruz, Ron Wyden, Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mike Gallagher and Tom Malinowski expressed concern about the removal of an app…

Avast said it believes that threat actors are again looking to target CCleaner in a supply chain attack. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The new layer of security is for high-end PCs and the first Windows 10 ‘Secured-core’ PC is the Arm-powered Surface Pro X. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Only really, really little astronauts need apply With launchpads in New Zealand and (soon) the US, small-sat flinger Rocket Lab toasted a ninth successful launch of its Electron rocket by taking aim at destinations beyond Low Earth Orbit.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

NordVPN, a virtual private network provider that promises to “protect your privacy online,” has confirmed it was hacked. From a report: The admission comes following rumors that the company had been breached. It first emerged that NordVPN had an expired internal private keys exposed, potentially allowing anyone to spin out their own servers imitating NordVPN….