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Candace Beeke, publisher and president of the Portland Business Journal, recently met with Ashley Wise, vice president of finance at Providence Health Plan, to discuss her leadership journey, challenges and the importance of balancing executive presence with authenticity.

Wise shared insights on overcoming the confidence gap, valuing mentorship and setting boundaries for work-life integration. She emphasized recognizing potential in team members and fostering strong relationships through vulnerability…

FIFA is earmarking the money for soccer pitches and other social projects.

Fortinet has revealed that threat actors have found a way to maintain read-only access to vulnerable FortiGate devices even after the initial access vector used to breach the devices was patched.
The attackers are believed to have leveraged known and now-patched security flaws, including, but not limited to, CVE-2022-42475, CVE-2023-27997, and CVE-2024-21762.
“A threat actor used a known

“We’re expecting payroll hiring to come close to grinding to a halt this year, which we think would push up the unemployment rate to 4.6% in the fourth quarter,” Wells Fargo Senior Economist Sarah House told the bank’s clients.

The threat actor known as Paper Werewolf has been observed exclusively targeting Russian entities with a new implant called PowerModul.
The activity, which took place between July and December 2024, singled out organizations in the mass media, telecommunications, construction, government entities, and energy sectors, Kaspersky said in a new report published Thursday.
Paper Werewolf, also known

What are IABs?
Initial Access Brokers (IABs) specialize in gaining unauthorized entry into computer systems and networks, then selling that access to other cybercriminals. This division of labor allows IABs to concentrate on their core expertise: exploiting vulnerabilities through methods like social engineering and brute-force attacks. 
By selling access, they significantly mitigate the

Palo Alto Networks has revealed that it’s observing brute-force login attempts against PAN-OS GlobalProtect gateways, days after threat actors warned of a surge in suspicious login scanning activity targeting its appliances.
“Our teams are observing evidence of activity consistent with password-related attacks, such as brute-force login attempts, which does not indicate exploitation of a

A newly disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting OttoKit (formerly SureTriggers) has come under active exploitation within a few hours of public disclosure.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-3102 (CVSS score: 8.1), is an authorization bypass bug that could permit an attacker to create administrator accounts under certain conditions and take control of susceptible websites.
“The

Lately, there’s been a lot of pearl-clutching among Portland’s economic leaders.

The Portland Metro Chamber’s 2025 State of the Economy report didn’t just deliver sobering data — it issued an urgent call to action. Yet instead of grappling with its core message, much of the local conversation has zeroed in on a single, loaded phrase: “doom loop.”

The hand-wringing misses the point. The report is clear: “Our region’s leaders must turn their attention to make our economy competitive…

The Class A building in the Pearl District first opened in 2009 and was last sold to NP Machineworks, LLC in 2011.