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Hosted Managed Services–A crucial option for institutions striving to maximize RegTech capabilities, focus on core business

Custom fit. Tailored. Bespoke. Made to order. 

If you’ve been tracking trends in RegTech and GRC solutions, you might recognize how those terms describe an innovative new direction: hosted managed services.

Prior to the pandemic, very few customers requested hosted solutions. Customers unequivocally required the PII of their clients to remain entirely inside their on-site firewalls. Then came the plague, and financial institutions realized it was just as secure—and
in some cases more secure—to safeguard their data behind a network of security professionals whose deep expertise was to keep data safe but still accessible.

This was only the first part of…

If you set up a free G Suite account and have been using Google’s online services for your business over the past few years, news that your account is being “upgraded” to Google Workspace may have come as a shock.

Google Workspace is a comparatively expensive upgrade to G Suite, one that doesn’t really add anything substantial for most users.

However, there might be an affordable alternative to Google Workspace. It’s time to familiarize yourself with Linode Marketplace and discover Nextcloud.

What Is Linode Marketplace?

Imagine you could set up your own server, based on your own specification, that was pay-per-use. On that server, you could instantly deploy the software you need to use on a day-to-day basis, all without hiring an IT consultant to set it all up.

What…

A pernicious botnet used for cryptojacking has taken a major blow thanks to Google, whose free cloud-based services it relied on to propagate. The company has identified and removed thousands of accounts, hosted files and ad accounts that were being used to spread malicious files.

The botnet, Glupteba, has been operating for some months and was thought to be compromising thousands of people per day at its peak. The cryptojacking botnet quietly installs coin miners on Windows PCs and attempts to steal login credentials and authentication cookies. It spread via Google advertisements promising software cracks and phishing emails linking to malicious files hosted with Google Docs.

Notorious cryptomining and credential theft botnet crippled

Google cautions that…

Texas Right to Life’s anti-abortion whistleblower site has found a new home on a web hosting service popular with right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis. Even so, the site’s aims may be even too extreme for its new far-right hosts.

The site, prolifewhistleblower.com, asks people to leave anonymous tips reporting doctors, clinics or other individuals that may have helped women get an abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected. A new Texas law forbids such procedures and offers a $10,000 reward to any private citizen who successfully sues somoeone who “aids or abets” an abortion.

Related: Texas’ abortion law continues America’s long history of vigilante “justice”

GoDaddy, the site’s initial web hosting service, booted it last Friday. GoDaddy’s policies forbid sites…

Amazon late Friday disabled a website used by a propaganda arm of the Islamic State that celebrated the suicide bombing that killed at least 170 people in Kabul on Thursday after The Washington Post reported the extremists relied on the company’s technology to promote extremism.

Nida-e-Haqq, an Islamic State media group that distributes Islamist content in the Urdu language, had been using the company’s dominant cloud-computing division, Amazon Web Services, to host its content, despite company policies against working with terror groups.

Some of that content included messages about the Islamic State-Khorasan offshoot that claimed responsibility for the lethal attack, said Rita Katz, executive director of SITE…