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GUEST RESEARCH - The BANSHEE malware is a macOS-based infostealer that targets system information, browser data, and cryptocurrency wallets.

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COMPANY PRODUCT NEWS: Acronis, a global leader in  cybersecurity   and  data protection, is pleased to announce that its flagship product, Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, is reverting to its original name, Acronis True Image, with the new version release. Users across the globe can now experience the latest release of Acronis True Image, featuring enhanced performance and cybersecurity capabilities to meet today’s cybersecurity challenges.

It's not often that you find someone writing about open source software and not bothering to make mention of the licences being used. But that's precisely what Albert Zhang of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a lobby group for big tech and foreign agencies, has done.

Storage, network, and security vendor Synology has now announced its portable backup product, BeeDrive, now supports macOS.

Norwegian firm Vivaldi, which produces a browser of the same name, has released feature-packed end-of-year versions for Windows, macOS and Linux.

COMPANY NEWS: Delinea, a leading provider of solutions that seamlessly extend Privileged Access Management (PAM), today announced the latest release of Privilege Manager, its solution for providing privilege elevation controls for users and applications on workstations.

Bitdefender's macOS Threat Landscape Report looks at the top threats and trends targeting the macOS operating system.

COMPANY NEWS: In an effort to protect the infrastructure and improve cybersecurity in the US, the Executive Order 14028 and the Office of Management and Budget Memo M-22-09 took a strong stance to require phishing-resistant authentication for all federal agencies. The M-22-09 memo also specifies two standards-based authentication protocols that will satisfy the phishing-resistant requirements, Fido2/WebAuthn and PIV smart cards.

Apple has released macOS Ventura 13.5, Monterey 12.6.8 and Big Sur 11.7.9.

Security vendor Trend Micro's new Trend Vision One – Endpoint Security combines prevention, detection, and response for endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and data centres.

GUEST RESEARCH: WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity, today announced the findings of its latest Internet Security Report, detailing the top malware trends and network and endpoint security threats analysed by WatchGuard Threat Lab researchers in Q1 2023. Key findings from the data show phishers leveraging browser-based social engineering strategies, new malware with ties to nation states, high amounts of zero day malware, living-off-the-land attacks on the rise, and more. This edition of the report also features a new, dedicated section for the Threat Lab team's quarterly ransomware tracking and analysis.

Business software provider Zoho has launched its own browser. Ulaa is said to universally block tracking and website surveillance.

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is coming back, and will be held online from the 5th to 9th of June 2023, with an opportunity for developers and students to celebrate in person at a  special experience at Apple Park on opening day. The event is free for all developers.

Apple has released updates for each of its operating systems, along with a new version of its Safari browser.

Being able to add one of Yubico's physical security keys to protect your iCloud account is now possible in iOS 16.3, iPadOS 16.3 and macOS 13.2 onwards, and it's a very simple process that elevates your security, with Geoff Schomburgk joining iTWireTV to discuss the development and show how its done.

The latest round of operating system updates from Apple deliver bug fixes and security fixes.

If you spend your days hunched over a laptop then stop! You need a dock, and Belkin has come out with a superb dock that’s light in size but big in features, for any USB-C laptop or tablet.

LibreOffice 7.5 Community, the latest major release of the free office suite, is now available for Windows on Intel/AMD and ARM processors, macOS on Apple Silicon and Intel processors, and Linux.

COMPANY NEWS: Jamf, the standard in managing and securing Apple at work, announced that as of 31 December 2022, it is now helping approximately 71,000 active customers succeed with Apple and is running on approximately 30 million devices worldwide.

Apple has announced 700 new price points for the App Store, giving developers greater pricing flexibility.