Here are five technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Thursday, December 30, 2021. Sip up.
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A. Today’s Technology, Channel Chief and Partner Program News
1. M&A - Supply Chain IT Services: NTT Data has acquired Chainalytics, a supply chain consulting and managed analytics service provider. See all NTT acquisitions listed here.
2. Exit - Intel Sells SDD Business: Intel has closed the sale of certain NAND and SSD businesses to Seoul-based SK hynix for $7 billion. The deal was announced in October 2020.
3. Google Cloud Customers: The Google Cloud business strategy includes investing heavily in companies at agree to run on its cloud platform, The Wall Street Journal notes. Examples include investing $1 billion in the futures-exchange company CME Group; $450 million in the home security provider ADT; and undisclosed sums in the Spanish-language media company Univision and the healthtech startup Tempus Labs, The Journal noted. All of those investment recipients have signed long-term cloud computing contracts with Google, the report added.
4. Microsoft Fixes False Log4j Positives: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint suffered some Log4j false positive reports, but Microsoft has updated the security software to correct the issue, VentureBeat reported.
5. Hackers Bypass Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) Security: Here's how they do it, according to Palo Alto Networks and Stony Brook University.
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