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Music Portland launches initiative to bring live music to metro neighborhoods
According to Music Portland, the city has more live music venues than either Austin or Nashville, which are historically known for their music communities. The Business Journal recently spoke with experts about how the already-existing music scene in Portland can be a way for the city to regain its footing after a tough pandemic era.
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Travel Portland: Tourist numbers rise, outlook is rosy
Most Travel Portland figures indicate that the sector is solidly on the rise.
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AWS CEO Adam Selipsky to step down next month
The company has already tapped Adam Selipsky’s successor.
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Elections 2024: Hood River, Wasco counties come up on May 21 primary
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VMware Patches Severe Security Flaws in Workstation and Fusion Products
Multiple security flaws have been disclosed in VMware Workstation and Fusion products that could be exploited by threat actors to access sensitive information, trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, and execute code under certain circumstances. The four vulnerabilities impact Workstation versions 17.x and Fusion versions 13.x, with fixes available in version 17.5.2 and
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PacifiCorp taps Oregonian to head Pacific Power
Warren Buffett utility based in Portland faces wildfire issues.
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New Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability CVE-2024-4761 Under Active Exploitation
Google on Monday shipped emergency fixes to address a new zero-day flaw in the Chrome web browser that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4761, is an out-of-bounds write bug impacting the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. It was reported anonymously on May 9, 2024. Out-of-bounds write bugs could be typically
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Critical Flaws in Cacti Framework Could Let Attackers Execute Malicious Code
The maintainers of the Cacti open-source network monitoring and fault management framework have addressed a dozen security flaws, including two critical issues that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The most severe of the vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2024-25641 (CVSS score: 9.1) – An arbitrary file write vulnerability in the “Package Import” feature that
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6 Mistakes Organizations Make When Deploying Advanced Authentication
Deploying advanced authentication measures is key to helping organizations address their weakest cybersecurity link: their human users. Having some form of 2-factor authentication in place is a great start, but many organizations may not yet be in that spot or have the needed level of authentication sophistication to adequately safeguard organizational data. When deploying
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Ongoing Campaign Bombards Enterprises with Spam Emails and Phone Calls
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an ongoing social engineering campaign that bombards enterprises with spam emails with the goal of obtaining initial access to their environments for follow-on exploitation. “The incident involves a threat actor overwhelming a user’s email with junk and calling the user, offering assistance,” Rapid7 researchers Tyler McGraw, Thomas Elkins, and

