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A major European cloud provider organization has committed additional funding to drive a push towards what it calls “sovereign, Trump-proof cloud services.”

“Many cloud customers, including European public administrations, are concerned that foreign governments have too much power to demand data, impose tariffs and restrict services on the cloud infrastructures they use,” said the statement from CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe). “Customers need options to select Trump-Proof cloud services that rely on 100% European cloud infrastructure and services and are immune from disruption, access, and potential removal by foreign actors.”

Ben Maynard, CISPE’s director of communications, said the goal of the group’s financial commitment of €1 million (about $1.1 million) for open-source software development is to accelerate the Fulcrum Project, an open-source digital exchange enabling European service providers to federate distributed cloud services to match the scale, reach, and capabilities of hyperscale cloud providers. It is not necessarily to encourage all European enterprises to abandon their US hyperscaler relationships, but is more geared, he said, to SMBs and smaller enterprises who want more local options.

A previously unknown trick lets you easily bypass using a Microsoft Account in Windows 11, just as Microsoft tries to make it harder to use local accounts. [...]

​North Korea's IT workers have expanded operations beyond the United States and are now increasingly targeting organizations across Europe. [...]

A RAR file, a fake summons, and a Nietzsche quote—all part of a multi-stage malware chain delivering DCRat & Rhadamanthys. Acronis TRU breaks down how attackers use VBS, batch, and PowerShell scripts to slip past defenses. [...]

Exposed PostgreSQL instances are the target of an ongoing campaign designed to gain unauthorized access and deploy cryptocurrency miners. Cloud security firm Wiz said the activity is a variant of an intrusion set that was first flagged by Aqua Security in August 2024 that involved the use of a malware strain dubbed PG_MEM. The campaign has been attributed to a threat actor Wiz tracks as Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

Autorité de la concurrence, France's antitrust watchdog, has fined Apple €150 million ($162 million) for using the App Tracking Transparency privacy framework to abuse its dominant market position in mobile app advertising on its devices. [...]

If you are among the rapidly-growing number of Mac users in the enterprise, you should know that Apple’s newly-released macOS Sequoia 15.4 is festooned with security updates, brings support for Apple Intelligence across most major languages (including to Europe), and introduces new AI tools for the app you most likely use every day, Mail. 

Those new tools — already available on iPhones in iOS — mean your Mac will try to highlight what it believes are the most important messages you receive, which could help you stay on top of your flow. There are some limitations — the biggest of which is that you can’t create your own Mail message categories. 

What are categories?

We looked at Apple’s AI-boosted email categorization system for iPhones when it was first made available. It tries to sort your incoming communications within the following categories:

• All Mail:  All your Mail as it is received.
• Primary: All the messages Apple Intelligence thinks might be important to you.
• Transactions: Invoices, shopping receipts, banking messages.
• Updates: Subscriptions and stuff that you probably ignore.
• Promotions: All the mail you also probably ignore.

Note: Mail puts time-sensitive emails in your Primary account.

How to navigate categories

Click on the currently selected category and you can access the All Mail category, or tap on that to select another.

How to turn categorization off

To disable categorization on your Mac, tap the three-dot icon just above your in-box. You will then be able to choose to show your email by category, return to the familiar Mail in-box view in chronological order or find out more about what categorization is doing on your Mac.

How to improve categorization

The system isn’t perfect. To change the category, command click on the email in the inbox to invoke a contextual menu within which you can select the Categorize Sender item. Use this to assign all emails from that sender to a more appropriate category.

Can you create your own categories?

As noted, you can’t yet create your own custom categories; the best you can do is create Smart Mailboxes for specific contacts or topics. Perhaps this will change one day, but it hasn’t changed yet.

Now available internationally

The new tools aren’t just for English emails. Apple Intelligence is also now available in 10 new languages and English language variants. Importantly, these include many of the world’s most widely used languages, including Chinese, Spanish, French and Portuguese, with localized English for India and Singapore, German, Japanese, and Korean.

What else is new?

Mail now also offers a Digest View in which you can look at all the messages you have received from a sender withing a single thread. If you choose to use it, you can also see relevant Contact photos in the inbox, just as you already do in Apple’s Messages app.

Additional improvements, tweaks, and features in macOS 15.4 exist, but for me, the best enhancement is one you have to pay for: Apple News+ subscribers gain an Apple News Food section aggregating recipes, articles about food, and other information you can use to get more creative in your kitchen. (It’s hard to avoid seeing this as an app designed for the tabletop iPad Apple is meant to be developing.) Other casual tweaks include a new Sketch style in Image Playground, Memory Movie support for custom slideshows in Photos, and new emojis. 

Significant security updates

This particular macOS update comes with well in excess of 50 security updates addressing vulnerabilities across the system, from WebKit to Safari and beyond. Many of these vulnerabilities concern attacks designed to access sensitive user data or attacks designed to execute arbitrary code (to mess up your Mac or steal your digital stash). The number of security patches in this release alone should be good reason to install the new update.

Growing pains

If you use driver extensions for some reason, such as for third-party accessories, you might experience issues when you upgrade. If you do, try this approach: Open System Settings>General>Login Items & Extensions and disable your affected driver extensions. Restart your Mac. After restarting, return to that section to re-enable the drivers.

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On the 21st birthday of Gmail, Google has announced a major update that allows enterprise users to send end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) to any user in any email inbox in a few clicks. The feature is rolling out starting today in beta, allowing users to send E2EE emails to Gmail users within an organization, with plans to send E2EE emails to any Gmail inbox in the coming weeks and to any email inboxRavie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

On the 21st birthday of Gmail, Google has announced a major update that allows enterprise users to send end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) to any user in any email inbox in a few clicks. The feature is rolling out starting today in beta, allowing users to send E2EE emails to Gmail users within an organization, with plans to send E2EE emails to any Gmail inbox in the coming weeks and to any email inbox

Download the April 2025 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World.

​Google has started rolling out a new end-to-end encryption (E2EE) model for Gmail enterprise users, making it easier to send encrypted emails to any recipient. [...]

A significant spike in scanning activity targeting Palo Alto Network GlobalProtect login portals has been observed, with researchers concerned it may be a prelude to an upcoming attack or flaw being exploited. [...]

A new sophisticated phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called Lucid has targeted 169 entities in 88 countries using smishing messages propagated via Apple iMessage and Rich Communication Services (RCS) for Android. Lucid's unique selling point lies in its weaponizing of legitimate communication platforms to sidestep traditional SMS-based detection mechanisms. "Its scalable,

A new sophisticated phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called Lucid has targeted 169 entities in 88 countries using smishing messages propagated via Apple iMessage and Rich Communication Services (RCS) for Android. Lucid's unique selling point lies in its weaponizing of legitimate communication platforms to sidestep traditional SMS-based detection mechanisms. "Its scalable, Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

Apple has released security updates that backport fixes for actively exploited vulnerabilities that were exploited as zero-days to older versions of its operating systems. [...]

Attackers are now targeting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the CrushFTP file transfer software using exploits based on publicly available proof-of-concept code. [...]

Apple on Monday backported fixes for three vulnerabilities that have come under active exploitation in the wild to older models and previous versions of the operating systems. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2025-24085 (CVSS score: 7.3) - A use-after-free bug in the Core Media component that could permit a malicious application already installed on a device to elevate

Apple on Monday backported fixes for three vulnerabilities that have come under active exploitation in the wild to older models and previous versions of the operating systems. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2025-24085 (CVSS score: 7.3) - A use-after-free bug in the Core Media component that could permit a malicious application already installed on a device to elevate Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a spike in suspicious login scanning activity targeting Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect gateways, with nearly 24,000 unique IP addresses attempting to access these portals. "This pattern suggests a coordinated effort to probe network defenses and identify exposed or vulnerable systems, potentially as a precursor to targeted exploitation," threat

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a spike in suspicious login scanning activity targeting Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect gateways, with nearly 24,000 unique IP addresses attempting to access these portals. "This pattern suggests a coordinated effort to probe network defenses and identify exposed or vulnerable systems, potentially as a precursor to targeted exploitation," threat Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]