Kendra employs a search bar where employees can input natural-language queries to locate the data needed for their work. On the occasion of this announcement, AWS also revealed the expansion of the number of systems it can sort through when compiling search results. Kendra now provides connectors for Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Corp.'s OneDrive cloud storage service.<\/p>\n
AWS has also improved the platform's vocabulary by adding domain-specific terms across eight new industries, including HR, legal, media, automotive, and health, along with entertainment, news, telecommunications, and travel and leisure.<\/p>\n
Most of AWS\u2019s competitors offer their own managed search platforms.<\/p>\n
Microsoft Launches New Office 365 Feature to Block Email Storms<\/h2>\n
A new feature in Office 365 has just been rolled out by Microsoft Corp. This feature is designed to block the email storms that occur when users hit \u201creply all\u201d to large email distribution lists.<\/p>\n
The Reply All Storm Protection feature was explained<\/a> by the Exchange team in a blog post last week. It will mostly benefit large organizations that have extensive distribution lists.<\/p>\n When a reply in an email storm is detected as taking place, the feature will block subsequent attempts to \u201creply all\u201d to the thread, and return a non-delivery receipt to the sender.<\/p>\n Amazon Web Services, Inc. has stepped up its protest over the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract award with an increasingly sharp war of words and legal maneuvers. Most recently, it has asked the U.S. Department of Defense for more clarity around corrective action it has proposed taking. Also, they filed a second and concurrent bid protest directly with the Department of Defense on Monday.<\/p>\n While the objection hasn't been declared publicly, in a new blog post<\/a>, Amazon.com, Inc.'s communications chief said the award is \"fatally flawed on all six of the technical evaluation factors\u201d.<\/p>\n Amazon's protest is in response to a federal court judge's decision to grant the DOD a 120-day remand to \"reconsider the aspects of the procurement challenged in Amazon's protest of the JEDI contract.\" However, the judge only included a single evaluation factor, whereas Amazon is saying that all of the evaluation factors need to be reviewed.<\/p>\n The Google Cloud VMware Engine service<\/a> is finally out of the box. Google LLC announced the rollout this week. It will make it simple for customers to run their on-site VMware applications on their company's public cloud infrastructure.<\/p>\n Google Cloud general manager June Yang's recent blog post in which she introduced the service stated that VMware is the foundation of a number of its customers' information technology environments. Also, she declared that many of them were waiting to move their workloads to the cloud, where additional resources are easily added on to their existing infrastructure.<\/p>\n Since this service is entirely managed, customers won't need to worry about the operational burden of running VMware apps on Google Cloud.<\/p>\n Late last week, websites belonging to Texas courts were shut down in response to a ransomware attack. On Monday, the Office of Court Administration for Texas released a statement<\/a> to the effect that the ransomware attack had been detected on Friday, May 8. They described the attack as having occurred in the \"overnight hours\".<\/p>\n According to Law.com, the Texas Supreme Court is among the Texas court sites affected by the ransomware attack. The court has shifted to releasing orders and opinions on Twitter until its website is restored.<\/p>\n PCs using a Thunderbolt port made before 2019 are at risk. An unpatchable exploit<\/a> in these devices has made them vulnerable to use by hackers in order to break into locked machines. The exploit, called Thunderspy, was publicly detailed on Sunday.<\/p>\n According to the information released, it affects all Windows and Linux computers with Thunderbolt ports that were made before 2019. It also poses a risk, although a much more limited one, to Apple Inc.'s Macs.<\/p>\n The attack uses an SPI programmer, a small device for configuring chips such as flash drives, that allows it to manipulate a Thunderbolt connector's controller chip and disable its security features.<\/p>\n Since Thunderspy requires physical access to a machine, as well as a considerable amount of technical know-how, to be able to exploit it, it is unlikely to pose a risk to the vast majority of users.<\/p>\n Learn about common ransomware attack scenarios and what to do if one of these attacks affects your clients:<\/p>\n Further reading<\/span> Ransomware Attack Scenarios<\/a><\/p>\n Researchers have discovered a few samples<\/a> of a new type of malware that they have named Ramsay. It can take private files from systems isolated from the Internet, and there are already a few known victims to date.<\/p>\n It gets on a victim's computer through an infected RTF file and then scans network and removable drive shares for PDF files, Word documents, and ZIP archives. ESET malware researcher Ignacio Sanmillan believes there is sufficient evidence to show that the Ramsay framework is still being developed and that the delivery vectors are yet to be refined. All variants reviewed by ESET collect all Microsoft Word documents on the target computer; newer ones will also search for PDF files and ZIP\u200c archives on network drives and removable drives.<\/p>\n ESET researchers believe that the malefactor behind Ramsay has knowledge of the victim's environment and is developing attack vectors that would preserve resources.<\/p>\nAmazon Now Calls JEDI Microsoft Contract Fatally Flawed<\/h2>\n
Google Cloud VMware Engine Rolled Out<\/h2>\n
Ransomware Attack Targets Texas Courts<\/h2>\n
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Ramsay Malware Steals Files from Secured Air-Gapped Computers<\/h2>\n
\nRamsay's primary purpose is to take files from a compromised host.<\/p>\nMicrosoft Warning on COVID-19 Phishing Malware<\/h2>\n