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  Microsoft will adopt Workday Adaptive Planning, which will run on Azure. Separately, Workday reported better-than-expected first quarter results and outlined plans to integrate with Salesforce's Work.com. Microsoft and Workday have forged a broad partnership that combines Workday Adaptive Planning and Microsoft Azure as well as Workday integrations with Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Teams.  Key points on the partnership include: Workday customers will be able to run Workday Adaptive Planning on Microsoft Azure's cloud. Microsoft will adopt Workday Adaptive Planning for its global finance teams for planning, budgeting and forecasting. The partnership includes integrations between Workday applications and Microsoft Teams and Azure Active Directory. Tom Bogan, Workday vice chairman, said the company has had a close working relationship with Microsoft for years as Adaptive Planning has been landing more large enterprise customers. "Midsized is still are largest custom...

  Just a week ago reports were in that the Supercomputer named Archer from Europe was cyber-attacked by hackers to steal critical information about the research and development taken up by Universities and Government to find a vaccine for COVID 19.   Now the news is out that almost all the supercomputers operating in Germany, UK, Switzerland, and Spain were affected by a malware strain propelling mining of cryptocurrency.   According to the breaches took place at different time frames in this year and were infected by a specific malware strain designed to use the computing power of a supercomputer to mine Monero XMR Cryptocurrency.   Chris Domain, the Co-Founder of ‘Cado Security’ was the person who discovered and passed on the details to technology news resource which now states that many of the powerful machines were forced to shut down as they have already leaked a section of information related to research carried out to find medicine for Corona Virus   Evid...

  Synopsys has found that 99% of commercial software programs include at least one open-source component. But 91% of those included out of date or abandoned open-source code. Open source rules. Everyone from Apple to Microsoft to  Zoom  uses it. Don't believe me? Synopsys, a software and silicon design company, which also covers intellectual property, reported in its  2020 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report  that nearly all (99%) of audited codebases contained at least one open-source component. That's good news. The bad news is 91% of the codebases containing components were either more than four years out of date or had seen no development activity in the last two years. Not good. Underlining how disturbing this is,  Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC)  found that open source made up  70% of all. That's a lot of aged and abandoned open-source software. Old software, unlike fine wine, does not age well.  The...

  For almost eight years, a hacker has silently hijacked D-Link NVRs (network video recorders) and NAS (network-attached storage) devices into a botnet that had the sole purpose of connecting to online websites and download anime videos. Named Cereals and first spotted in 2012, the botnet reached its peak in 2015 when it amassed more than 10,000 bots. However, despite its size, the botnet operated without detection from most cyber-security firms. Currently, Cereals is slowly disappearing, as the vulnerable D-Link devices on which it fed all these years have started aging and are being decommissioned by their owners. Further, the botnet's decline was also accelerated when a ransomware strain named Cr1ptT0r wiped the Cereals malware from many D-Link systems in the winter of 2019. Now that both the botnet and the vulnerable devices behind it are dying out, cyber-security firm Forcepoint published a report on the botnet's past operations, without fear that its report could draw att...

  Visual Studio Online is being rechristened as Visual Studio Codespaces. And pricing cuts are coming for all tiers as of mid-May. Microsoft is on a rebranding roll these days. The latest product to get the treatment is Visual Studio Online, which is now going to be known as  Visual Studio Codespaces. In a blog post on April 30, Microsoft officials said the reason for the rebranding is because they wanted to be clear that the product is much more than just "an editor in the browser." The new tagline: Codespaces "are simply the most productive place to code." The rebranding will begin showing up "in the coming weeks and months." Microsoft made the  public preview of Visual Studio Online in November 2019 . At that time, officials stressed that its online code editor and companion to Visual Studio and  Visual Studio Code  could be used for managed development for anything from long-term projects to short term tasks. (An aside:  Visual Studio Online originally...