Dec 31, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
As if dealing with COVID-19 were not enough, 2020 turned out to be a banner year for another troublesome strain of virus— ransomware. Malicious actors grew more sophisticated, daring and brutal. They also hit a number of high-profile targets. For those of you who...
Dec 24, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The UK’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has issued its first-ever guidance for farmers to help protect their industry from malware and ransomware. With an eye on the future of agriculture and tech, the NCSC has published guidance to help the farming...
Dec 23, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) reported 17 serious data breaches during the last financial year, according to official figures analysed by the Parliament Street think tank. The UK government department responsible for running the country’s justice system revealed in...
Dec 22, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Engineers from Cloudflare, Apple and Fastly have co-authored a new proposed DNS standard that separates IP addresses from queries to make it harder for internet service providers to know which websites users visit. The new internet protocol, dubbed Oblivious...
Dec 21, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has confirmed that it, too, is among the companies who have downloaded the compromised SolarWinds Orion updates, but that they have isolated and removed them. “We have not found evidence of access to production services or customer data. Our investigations,...
Dec 18, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
23,000 Britons’ data was among unsecured info, finds research Two thousand servers containing 45 million images of X-rays and other medical scans were left online during the course of the past twelve months, freely accessible by anyone, with no security...
Dec 17, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Norwegian cruise company Hurtigruten announced Monday that it had been hit by a major cyberattack involving what appeared to be “ransomware”, designed to seize control of data to ransom it. “It’s a serious attack,” said the...
Dec 16, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Using indicators of compromise (IoCs) made available by FireEye, threat intelligence and incident response firm Volexity determined that the threat group behind the SolarWinds hack targeted a U.S. think tank earlier this year, and it used a clever method to bypass...
Dec 15, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
When searching for things online, has a greater number of ads than usual been popping up at the top of your search results? If it has, and you’re using Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Yandex Browser, or Mozilla Firefox, you might have fallen prey to the ad-injecting...
Dec 14, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
An ongoing issue with Google’s servers has brought down many of the company’s cloud services, leaving millions of users without access to their data. Multiple services including YouTube, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs and Google Photos are all currently...
Dec 14, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A domain spoofing email phishing campaign that very convincingly impersonates Microsoft and successfully tricks legacy secure email gateways has recently been spotted by Ironscales. It also led them to discover that Microsoft servers are not currently enforcing the...
Dec 11, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Google Authenticator is an important app on any iPhone, as you can’t log into many important accounts without it. And yet, until now, it had a glaring omission — it was impossible to transfer your accounts to a new iPhone. With the latest version of the app for...
Dec 10, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple’s chip designers are preparing a new set of processors for 2021 that potentially create a significant threat to the Wintel, or Windows-Intel, alliance that’s dominated personal computers since the 1980s. Bloomberg’s Apple watchers report that...
Dec 9, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
After several months of rumours and speculation, Apple has announced the AirPods Max, the first over-the-ear headphones from the company not under the Beats by Dre brand. There’s an overall retro feel to the AirPods Max, giving them a unique look. Up until this...
Dec 8, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Making conference calls on the go could soon be easier than ever thanks to a major upgrade to Microsoft Teams. According to a Microsoft blog post, the firm has streamlined the calling experience in Teams, bringing call history, voicemail, contacts and the dial pad...
Dec 7, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Nearly a quarter (23%) of global organizations suffered seven or more attacks that infiltrated their networks over the past year, and a majority believe it will happen in the coming 12 months, according to Trend Micro. The security giant commissioned the Ponemon...
Dec 5, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Threat actors are exploiting legitimate the SendGrid mailing service to spoof HMRC phishing emails that bypass spam filters. The known issue has been repeatedly exploited by scammers to evade detection from email security products, yet no concrete solution has been...
Dec 4, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The manufacturing sector is number one when it comes to browser hacks, particularly from the dark world of phishing. When it comes to phishing attempts, the manufacturing industry is one of the most vulnerable sectors. In the recent report, 2020 State of Encrypted...
Dec 3, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Criminals increase activities during back-to-school season, and Covid-19 also helping them out. (Image credit: Image source: Shutterstock/Ai825) Trojans that steal passwords and banking information from their victims have been constantly on the rise for the past two...
Dec 2, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Hundreds of NHS patients and staff have had their personal data exposed to strangers after internal process failures, it has emerged this week. Human error at NHS Highland earlier this month led to the personal information of 284 patients with diabetes being shared...
Dec 1, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A threat actor is currently selling passwords for the email accounts of hundreds of UK, EU & US C-level executives at companies across the world. The data is being sold on a closed-access underground forum for Russian-speaking hackers named Exploit.in. The threat...
Nov 30, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Some 50,000 targeted victims have been identified so far in a massive, global scam enterprise that involves 26 different malwares. Three men suspected of participating in a massive business email compromise (BEC) ring have been arrested in Lagos, Nigeria. A joint...
Nov 27, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The introduction of 5G will change the way we communicate, multiply the capacity of the information highways, and allow everyday objects to connect to each other in real time. Its deployment constitutes a true technological revolution not without some security...
Nov 26, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Winter is coming and ransomware is well underway with a brutal second wave. And while some may call this just a natural evolution, there is no doubt that attacks are picking up steam and shifting to a far more aggressive and brutal mode. With the confirmed death of a...
Nov 25, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Does your Mac really phone home to Apple each time you launch an app? That’s the allegation flying around after October 12, 2020, when an Apple server became slow and modern Macs took a long time to open apps. We’ll explain what’s going on. Info: This applies to...
Nov 24, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A WordPress vulnerability present across millions of sites is being targeted by threat actors, according to security researchers. A number of the security bugs have only recently been patched, leaving a huge number of sites at risk. The security flaw in question...
Nov 23, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft Outlook 365 received a nice update for Mac in the fall of 2020. Along with an enhanced look came new and improved features. With everything from a customizable toolbar and better search to the ability to snooze emails, let’s take a look at all that’s new in...
Nov 22, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
With many organisations now having a significant portion of staff working remotely—and as things are looking, this is going to be the longterm reality—the old model of how companies support a “mobile” workforce is not exactly holding up well. Some...
Nov 21, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
If you were skeptical about how good Apple Silicon would be on launch, you weren’t alone. In switching over from Intel chips to its own processors, Apple was opening out a huge surface — both hardware and software — to show-stopping bugs. But now...
Nov 20, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
In today’s world, most external cyberattacks start with phishing. For attackers, it’s almost a no-brainer: phishing is cheap and humans are fallible, even after going through anti-phishing training. Patrick Harr, CEO at SlashNext, says that while security...
Nov 19, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
There’s a growing use of ransomware, encrypted threats and attacks among cybercriminals leveraging non-standard ports, while overall malware volume declined for the third consecutive quarter, SonicWall reveals. “For most of us, 2020 has been the year where we’ve seen...
Nov 18, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
“As the industry’s only measure of BEC attack volume by industry, our quarterly BEC research is important for CISOs to prepare and stay ahead of attackers,” said Evan Reiser, CEO of Abnormal Security. “Not only are BEC campaigns continuing to increase overall, they...
Nov 17, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Working from home (WFH) is such a privilege that you should actually pay more for it: that was the premise of a report from Deutsche Bank economists, which has created something of a stir. The researchers argued that WFH will remain part of the ‘new...
Nov 16, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft is urging users to abandon telephone-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions like one-time codes sent via SMS and voice calls and instead replace them with newer MFA technologies, like app-based authenticators and security keys. The warning comes...
Nov 11, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple has hosted its third event in as many months, where they finally detailed how and why they’ll be shifting Macs to chips designed and built by Apple — and showed off the first Macs that’ll make the jump: new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini! Apple Silicon...
Nov 11, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Over the six-month period from March to August 2020, over 925,000 malicious emails managed to bypass Office 365 defenses and well-known secure email gateways (SEGs), an Area 1 Security study reveals. How criminals bypass Office 365 defenses Attackers increasingly use...
Nov 10, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Earlier this year, businesses across the globe transitioned to a remote work environment almost overnight at unprecedented scale and speed. Security teams worked around the clock to empower and protect their newly distributed teams. Protect and support a remote...
Nov 9, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cloud adoption was already strong heading into 2020. According to a study by O’Reilly, 88% of businesses were using the cloud in some form in January 2020. The global pandemic just accelerated the move to SaaS tools. This seismic shift where businesses live day-to-day...
Nov 5, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Seeing the google.com domain instills trust, which could lead to your password being compromised. Here’s what you need to know. Cybercriminals will use any, and every means possible to win your trust before going in for the kill. Security researchers at...
Nov 4, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
In today’s world, most external cyberattacks start with phishing. For attackers, it’s almost a no-brainer: phishing is cheap and humans are fallible, even after going through anti-phishing training. Patrick Harr, CEO at SlashNext, says that while security...
Nov 2, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Most businesses don’t have sufficient visibility into the devices used by employees. The rise of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives, which see employees use personal devices for work, continue to pose a significant threat from a cybersecurity perspective....
Oct 30, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The threat intelligence team from GreatHorn uncovered a series of ongoing phishing campaigns targeting users of Microsoft’s Office 365 and Google’s Gmail. The attackers are using imposter open redirector domains and subsidiary domains of various popular brands and...
Oct 29, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Data-scrubbing feature means cookies and site data are wiped from other sites, just not from Google’s own services With users growing increasingly concerned about protecting their privacy online, Google has added a setting to Chrome that allow users to clear...
Oct 28, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A report from global investigations firm Kroll revealed that ransomware attacks were the most observed security threats in 2020, accounting to one-third of all cyberattacks as of September 1, 2020. It highlighted that the impact of rising ransomware attacks on...
Oct 27, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A new research from cybersecurity firm Thycotic revealed that 66% of organizations in Australia are planning to increase their cybersecurity budgets in the next 12 months. The research titled “CISO Decisions” highlighted what motivates companies to invest in...
Oct 26, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Coronavirus-related email subjects remain the biggest threat in phishing scams, according to new research from KnowBe4, a security awareness training and simulated phishing platform. According to the results of the Q3 2020 top-clicked phishing report, phishing tests...
Oct 25, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Mobile network operator O2 has managed to launch its 5G service in more than 100 towns and cities across the UK. The firm said the roll-out is continuing ahead of schedule, with Milton Keynes, Ipswich and Chelmsford now added to the list of areas where 5G has been...
Oct 24, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The repair of a damaged iPhone, assuming you’re not covered by a warranty, can cost you an enormous amount of money. Perhaps that’s not surprising, given the high price you pay for the phone in the first place, but you may be surprised by the repair costs...
Oct 23, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
As the pandemic hit, the number of remote workers doubled between mid-March and mid-April, and three-year plans for cloud adoption were compressed into three weeks. To say Covid-19 accelerated the world’s digital transformation is a massive understatement....
Oct 22, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Attackers are targeting Microsoft Office 365 users with a Coinbase-themed attack, aiming to take control of their inboxes via OAuth. Office 365 users are receiving emails purporting to come from cryptocurrency platform Coinbase, which ask them to download updated...
Oct 20, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
As the Information Age slowly gives way to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the rise of IoT and IIoT, on-demand availability of computer system resources, big data and analytics, and cyber attacks aimed at business environments impact on our everyday lives,...
Oct 19, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Zoom has begun a ‘technical preview’ of its end-to-end encryption (E2EE) offering, available for both free and paid users. Available starting from next week, it represents the first phase out of four of the company’s greater E2EE offering, which was announced in May...
Oct 16, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has announced it took action to disrupt a botnet, Trickbot, one of the world’s most infamous botnets and prolific distributors of malware and ransomware. Trickbot was disrupted through a court order Microsoft obtained as well as technical action...
Oct 15, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
It took a little longer than usual, but the iPhone 12 is finally here. And just like we expected, there are four phones this year, with Apple adding a new “mini” model to the lower-end of the lineup. But even with an extra option, the choice of which one to buy might...
Oct 14, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Most people know Zynga as a giant in the Facebook gaming sector. They created several popular Facebook games such as FarmVille, Words with Friends, and Mafia Wars. But in 2019, information of 218 Million users of the app was compromised in a cyber attack. Other...
Oct 13, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
As if cyber attacks could not get any worse, there are reports of a first fatality suspected from a cyber attack, a patient in Germany died from delayed treatment allegedly due to ransomware. This and the recent cyber-attack that brought down New Zealand’s stock...
Oct 12, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
It’s no surprise that ransomware threat actors have adjusted their attack models to match improvements that organizations’ security defenders are making. But the extent of that shift is eye-opening. As of September 2020, one in four attacks IBM Security X-Force...
Oct 9, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
As the economic fallout of the COVID-19 crisis continues to unfold, a research from Next Caller, reveals the pervasive impact that COVID-related fraud has had on Americans, as well as emerging trends that threaten the security of contact centers, as we head towards...
Oct 8, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Your brand is a valuable asset, but it’s also a great attack vector. Threat actors exploit the public’s trust of your brand when they phish under your name or when they counterfeit your products. The problem gets harder because you engage with the world across so many...
Oct 7, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cybersecurity is the number one technology priority for planned digital transformation projects as businesses adapt to a surge in remote working as a result of COVID-19. Cybersecurity: Main focus for planned projects IT leaders also revealed that adapting culture...
Oct 6, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The benefits of cybersecurity awareness programs are currently the subject of broad discussion, particularly when it comes to phishing simulations. Nowadays, companies not only invest in IT security solutions, but also in the training of their employees with the goal...
Oct 5, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Google has hidden lots of quirky Easter eggs and fun games in its search engine. Below are some of the best, so just head to Google and type one of the following searches. Search: Anagram Did you mean nag a ram? Not exactly. An anagram is a word (or phrase)...
Oct 2, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
There’s another clever fraud tactic to add to your library of security threats. Imagine a call or voice message that appears to come from a trusted source but is really a disguised attempt to compromise your identity, credentials or financial information....
Oct 1, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
SMBs are struggling with their cybersecurity solutions, with three quarters worried about being the target of a cyberattack in the next six months, and 91% considering using or switching to a new IT service provider if offered a better option. This is according to the...
Sep 30, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The Microsoft security platform formerly known as Microsoft Threat Protection has a new name and new capabilities, announced at Microsoft Ignite last week. The new name, Microsoft Defender, brings Microsoft 365 Defender and Azure Defender under the same umbrella....
Sep 29, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Eradicating email entry Email is still the most used attack vector for opportunistic and targeted attacks and is typically the starting point for social engineering attacks, the delivery vehicle for a dropper or payload attachment, or the link to an exploit kit or...
Sep 28, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A new perpetual licence version for Office will be released in the second half of 2021, Microsoft announced on Tuesday at the Ignite 2020 virtual event. While the company did not disclose the name of the product, it did reveal that the new version of Office will be...
Sep 26, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Image: Devin Edwards A cybercrime group has been busy over the past months placing malicious ads on adult-themed websites in order to redirect users to exploit kits and infect them with malware. Named Malsmoke, the group has operated on a scale far above similar other...
Sep 25, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Hackers are actively exploiting the Zerologon vulnerability in real-world attacks, Microsoft’s security intelligence team said this morning. “Microsoft is actively tracking threat actor activity using exploits for the CVE-2020-1472 Netlogon EoP...
Sep 24, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft announced a slew of updates for Microsoft Teams meetings at Ignite, including more Together Mode scenes, custom layouts, breakout rooms and automated recaps. The maximum number of people who can attend a meeting is also expanding to 1,000 participants later...
Sep 23, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple’s Translate app, introduced in iOS 14, allows iPhone users to quickly translate between languages using text or voice input. With speech output, support for a dozen languages, and a comprehensive built-in dictionary, it’s an essential tool for travelers. Here’s...
Sep 22, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple’s yearly iPhone update, iOS 14, is finally here. As always, the free download adds a handful of new features, tweaks, and enhancements to iPhones old and new. Widgets on the Home Screen For the first time in iPhone history, the Home screen is changing. You can...
Sep 21, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Imagine a thief walks into your home and rummages through your personal belongings. Instead of stealing them, he locks all your valuables into a safe and forces you to pay a ransom for the key to unlock the safe. What choice do you have? Substitute your digital space...
Sep 18, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) received 59,806 cyber crime reports, averaging 164 reports each day, or one report every 10 minutes, during the 12 months between July 2019 and June this year. The ACSC, a division within the Australian Signals Directorate...
Sep 17, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Lloyds Bank customers are being targeted by a sophisticated email and SMS messaging phishing campaign, according to an investigation by law practice Griffin Law. An estimated 100 people have reported receiving fake communication purporting to be from Lloyds, which is...
Sep 16, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple has unveiled an all-in-one monthly subscription in an attempt to put the tech giant squarely at the centre of people’s digital lives. The “Apple One” subscription will charge up to £30 a month for a bundle of services such as Apple Music, iCloud and a...
Sep 16, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Visa has issued a warning about new digital skimming malware with a sophisticated design intended to circumvent detection by security tools. The card giant said its Payment Fraud Disruption (PFD) group first discovered the “Baka” skimmer in February whilst analyzing a...
Sep 15, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A new Thanos ransomware strain is trying and failing to deliver the ransom note onto compromised systems by overwriting the computers’ Windows master boot record (MBR). The new Windows MBR locker module has been discovered by security researchers at Palo Alto...
Sep 14, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple has announced plans to invest in two of the world’s largest wind turbines in Denmark and says its huge Danish data center is now operational. Apple announced its Danish data center plans in 2015 and revealed its 45,000 square-meter facility in Viborg,...
Sep 11, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
In February 2020, images, video and information about Microsoft’s ‘Project Moca’ productivity feature for Outlook started leaking. But it wasn’t until very late August that Microsoft finally acknowledged officially — via a blog post...
Sep 10, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has moved its new app Microsoft Lists to generally availability as an add-on to its popular Teams collaboration and video-meeting app. This means the new Lists app, which it announced at Build 2020, is now available to all of Microsoft 365 commercial and...
Sep 9, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Total available mobile spectrum in the UK will increase by about a fifth after the auction The government has claimed a major leap in Britain’s ‘digital infrastructure revolution’, by announcing that the 700 MHz airwave band is clear for 5G...
Sep 8, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
One of the most useful tools in the quest for productivity in office work is the use of keyboard shortcuts. The proper shortcuts can turn your keyboard from a writing tool into a command center for your computer. For Apple users, the proprietary keys can be daunting...
Sep 7, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Maintain eye contact, offer a firm handshake, dress appropriately: the basic rules that define a professional attitude at work are well-established, and office etiquette evolves only slowly. But with the office effectively moving online, many codes that make up...
Sep 4, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cyber-security firm ESET has published a report today detailing a new strain of Windows malware that the company has named KryptoCibule. ESET says the malware has been distributed since at least December 2018, but only now surfaced on its radar. According to the...
Sep 3, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
BEC scammer groups are growing more brazen. The average sum that a BEC group will try to steal from a targeted company is now around $80,000 per attack, according to an industry report published on Monday. The number is up from $54,000, the average sum that BEC groups...
Sep 2, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
As of September 1, Apple software, from Safari to macOS to iOS, now rejects new HTTPS and other SSL/TLS certificates that are valid for more than 398 days, plus or minus some caveats. If that sounds familiar, it’s because The Register said so in February before...
Sep 1, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A 350% increase in phishing websites was reported in the first quarter of the year, many targeting hospitals and health care systems and hindering their work responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.N. counterterrorism chief said Thursday. Vladimir Voronkov told the...
Aug 31, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Technology and cyber systems have become essential components of modern society. Despite the benefit of cyber technologies, insecurities arise. These could affect all systems and infrastructures. More than that, the threat of a cyberattack could very well have a...
Aug 28, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Mimecast released the Threat Intelligence Report: Black Hat U.S.A. Edition 2020, which presents insights gleaned from the analysis of 195 billion emails processed by Mimecast for its customers from January through June 2020. Of those, 92 billion (47%) were flagged as...
Aug 27, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
New research has found that 42% of organizations are taking disciplinary action against staff who make cybersecurity errors. To examine the prevalence of punishment in businesses and the impact of this on staff, a team of researchers led by Dr John Blythe, Head of...
Aug 26, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
New research shows almost three quarters of large businesses believe remote working policies introduced to help stop the spread of COVID-19 are making their companies more vulnerable to cyberattacks. You need to take steps to protect the remote workforce AT&T’s...
Aug 25, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Mozilla has announced a new Firefox protection feature to stymie a new user tracking technique lately employed by online advertisers: redirect tracking. How does redirect tracking work? Online advertisers, web analytics companies and browser makers are locked in a...
Aug 24, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
14% of IT workers are consumed with Identity and Access Management (IAM), spending at least an hour per day on routine IAM tasks, according to 1Password. IAM continues to be a significant productivity bog for IT and employees alike, with 57% of IT workers resetting...
Aug 21, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cloud breaches will likely increase in velocity and scale, and highlights steps that can be taken to mitigate them, according to Accurics. “While the adoption of cloud native infrastructure such as containers, serverless, and servicemesh is fueling innovation,...
Aug 20, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A high-risk vulnerability (CVE-2020-13699) in TeamViewer for Windows could be exploited by remote attackers to crack users’ password and, consequently, lead to further system exploitation. About TeamViewer TeamViewer is an application developed by German company...
Aug 19, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Smart home tech is marketed to enhance your home and make life easier. However, UK consumers are not convinced that they can trust the privacy and security of these technologies. To better understand consumers perceptions of the desirability of the smart home,...
Aug 18, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Could organizations recoup their share of more than $1 billion per quarter by moving away from legacy solutions to cloud-native patch management and endpoint hardening? A new report from Sedulo Group says yes. The 2020 TCO Study of Microsoft WSUS & SCCM report...
Aug 17, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Findings from Link11’s H1 2020 DDoS Report reveal a resurgence in DDoS attacks during the global COVID-19 related lockdowns. In April, May and June 2020, the number of attacks registered by Link11’s Security Operations Center (LSOC) averaged 97% higher than the during...
Aug 14, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cybercriminals are increasingly using Dharma ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) attacks against small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) this year, according to British cybersecurity company Sophos. During these attacks, hackers are leveraging various iterations of Dharma...
Aug 13, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A clever phishing scam is targeting cPanel users with a fake security advisory alerting them of critical vulnerabilities in their web hosting management panel. cPanel is administrative software commonly installed on shared web hosting services that allow website...
Aug 12, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cybercriminals are increasingly registering accounts with legitimate services, such as Gmail and AOL, to use them in impersonation and BEC attacks, according to Barracuda Networks. BEC attacks impact thousands of organizations In their most recent threat spotlight...
Aug 11, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A massive hack has hit Reddit yesterday after tens of Reddit channels have been hacked and defaced to show messages in support of Donald Trump’s reelection campaign. The hacks are still ongoing at the time of writing, but ZDNet were told Reddit’s security...
Aug 10, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Back in June, Google teased Parallels coming to Chrome OS this fall, although it didn’t say much more than that. Today, Parallels expanded on that announcement, explaining that you’ll be able to run a full Windows virtual machine on your Chrome OS PC, with...
Aug 7, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Many businesses are at risk from bot attacks, despite an awareness of the problem and a widely held belief that they have the problem under control, Netacea reveals. Global businesses at risk from bot attacks The research surveyed businesses across the travel,...
Aug 6, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
38 percent of businesses have scaled infrastructure to meet new levels of demand during the lockdown period (March-June), highlighting how the pandemic has accelerated businesses’ digital transformation plans, according to Aptum. The findings also demonstrate that...
Aug 5, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A global research report by Lenovo highlights the triumphs, challenges and the consequences of the sudden shift to work-from-home (WFH) during the COVID-19 pandemic and how companies and their IT departments can power the new era of working remotely that will follow....
Aug 4, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The ultimate desktop now features much faster performance, SSDs across the line, an even more stunning Retina 5K display, and higher quality camera, speakers, and mics Cupertino, California — Apple today announced a major update to its 27-inch iMac. By far the...
Aug 4, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Digital privacy is paramount to the global community, but it must be balanced against the proliferation of digital-first crimes, including child sexual abuse, human trafficking, hate crimes, government suppression, and identity theft. The more the world connects with...
Aug 3, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
97% of enterprise decision makers believe COVID-19 accelerated their company’s digital transformation efforts, according to a Twilio survey of over 2,500 enterprise decision makers. “Over the last few months, we’ve seen years-long digital transformation roadmaps...
Jul 31, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Research found that the security of the internet overall is improving. The number of insecure services such as SMB, Telnet, rsync, and the core email protocols, decreased from the levels seen in 2019. Vulnerabilities and exposures still plague the modern internet even...
Jul 30, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
89% of security professionals are most concerned about phishing, web and ransomware attacks. This is especially alarming, considering that only 48% confirm that they have continuous visibility into the risk area of phishing, web and ransomware, a Balbix report...
Jul 29, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
43% of US and UK employees have made mistakes resulting in cybersecurity repercussions for themselves or their company, according to a Tessian report. With human error being a leading cause of data breaches today, the report examines why people make mistakes and how...
Jul 28, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
CISOs who are successful at reducing or closing the critical skills gap have the highest probability of minimizing the business impact of cyberattacks – even when budgets and staffing are constrained, according to the results of a new SANS Institute survey. The...
Jul 27, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A Trend Micro research is warning consumers of a major new wave of attacks attempting to compromise their home routers for use in IoT botnets. The report urges users to take action to stop their devices from enabling this criminal activity. The importance of home...
Jul 24, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft is building a new desktop-as-a-service offering built on top of Windows Virtual Desktop that could launch as soon as 2021. For years, many of us Microsoft watchers have expected Microsoft to create a true virtualized Windows PC experience. Well, it’s...
Jul 23, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
There is a new phishing scam doing the rounds. There is a new phishing campaign going around, which leverages high-profile cloud services from Microsoft and IBM to feign legitimacy. As recently reported by Bleeping Computer, the phishing campaign targets corporate...
Jul 22, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Security researchers are warning of a new phishing campaign that uses malicious emails from legitimate SurveyMonkey domains in a bid to bypass security filters. The phishing emails in question are sent from a real SurveyMonkey domain but crucially have a different...
Jul 21, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
People in the UK are being targeted by a new phishing scam designed to trick victims into handing over details of their HSBC bank account. The scam, discovered by litigation specialists Griffin Law, begins with a bogus text message that claims to be from the banking...
Jul 20, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft Office 365 users are targeted by a new phishing campaign using fake Zoom notifications to warn those who work in corporate environments that their Zoom accounts have been suspended, with the end goal of stealing Office 365 logins. Zoom is a cloud-based...
Jul 17, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has unveiled Project Freta, a potential future virtual-machine (VM) forensics service that will allow anyone to automatically ferret out malicious software hiding in memory on cloud infrastructure. But unlike Microsoft’s commercial security services...
Jul 16, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has obtained a court order this month allowing the company to seize control of six domains that were used in phishing operations against Office 365 customers, including in campaigns that leveraged COVID-19 lures. According to court documents obtained by...
Jul 15, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Poor coding of the ThiefQuest ransomware in disguise that targets macOS users allows the recovery of encrypted files, which would remain lost in lack of a backup. While the malware (initially named EvilQuest) deploys the encryption routine immediately after infecting...
Jul 14, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The number of UK business falling victim to cybercrime has doubled over the past five years, costing the economy an estimated tens of billions in the process, according to new research. The business ISP polled over 2500 companies between 2015 and 2019. The percentage...
Jul 13, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple has disabled the ability to silently install macOS profiles from the CLI in macOS 11, a measure that was widely employed by adware and malware gangs. With macOS 11, also known as Big Sur, Apple has removed the ability to install macOS profile configurations from...
Jul 10, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft is adding a lot of new features to Teams Microsoft introduced some big updates to Microsoft Teams yesterday. The software giant has been working on a new “Together Mode” for Teams ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and it’s designed to create a virtual...
Jul 9, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has announced a slew of new initiatives designed to open up access to new digital skills, including cash grants, providing access to data, affordable certifications for Microsoft products, and a new learning app baked directly into Microsoft Teams....
Jul 8, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Please note this articles refers to OneDrive, not OneDrive For Business. What the difference? Check it out here. Microsoft announced last week that it’s making OneDrive file sharing more manageable, adding a convenient way to share folders and files with friends,...
Jul 7, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The lack of technology skills is contributing to a dent in productivity as workers struggle to adapt to working from home over prolonged periods. Questionmark is calling on employers to ensure that their people have the necessary technical skills as remote working...
Jul 6, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
67% of all malware in Q1 2020 was delivered via encrypted HTTPS connections and 72% of encrypted malware was classified as zero day, so would have evaded signature-based antivirus protection, according to WatchGuard. These findings show that without HTTPS inspection...
Jul 3, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Security researchers have discovered this week a new ransomware strain targeting macOS users. Named OSX.EvilQuest, this ransomware is different from previous macOS ransomware threats because besides encrypting the victim’s files, EvilQuest also installs a...
Jul 2, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft is rapidly evolving its Teams app on iOS and Android, as the collaboration tool embraces firstline and other mobile workers. Collaboration tools like Slack and Teams have become key to remote work, offering shared spaces for working on specific projects,...
Jul 1, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Says the decision is a targeted move to ensure safety and sovereignty of Indian cyberspace In an unprecedented move, the Indian government on Monday announced that it is banning as many as 59 China-made mobile apps that it says are posing danger to the country. The...
Jun 30, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has completed rolling out Teams/Skype interoperability, allowing users of one app to collaborate with users on the other. Communicating across Microsoft apps gets a little easier now as the company finishes making Teams and Skype interoperable. This means...
Jun 29, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
COVID-related attacks increased 436% between the second and third weeks of March 2020, with an average 173% week-over-week increase during the quarter, according to Abnormal Security. A trend toward payment fraud There has also been a shift from individual to group...
Jun 26, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
As millions of employees continue to work from home for the foreseeable future and in some cases perhaps indefinitely, balancing the ongoing demands of employee productivity and information security will be paramount. The historical “castle and moat” model of...
Jun 26, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A former Intel engineer is claiming that Apple began plotting its divorce from Intel when the chipmaker released its buggy Skylake chipset. This was when Microsoft released the incredibly unreliable Surface Book (first-generation) and Surface Pro 4 and then spent...
Jun 25, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has made its new “Safe Documents” feature generally available for all Office 365 customers, the company announced on Monday. The new Safe Documents feature, which launched in a private preview in February 2020, expands “Protected...
Jun 24, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft is launching the personal version of Microsoft Teams today in preview. It’s part of a broader effort by Microsoft to remain relevant with consumers and win them back after a series of exits from consumer-friendly services. Microsoft isn’t rebranding Teams...
Jun 23, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Yesterday’s digital WWDC keynote event was jam packed with announcements, with Apple debuting iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS Big Sur, watchOS 7, tvOS 14, and, most notably, its work on custom-designed chips that will be used in Macs in the future. This is a list of...
Jun 23, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
With 89% of small businesses moving to a remote workforce, there remains a significant gap between the perceived importance of cybersecurity protections for businesses with fewer than 10 employees and those with more than 10 employees. The smaller the business, the...
Jun 22, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
There is nothing ordinary about the amount of disruption that will impact our lives moving forward as countries and states reopen following the coronavirus pandemic. In the context of the cloud, disruptions caused by COVID-19 have opened the door to another type of...
Jun 19, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Hackers hijacked an Oxford email server to deliver malicious emails as part of a phishing campaign designed to harvest Microsoft Office 365 credentials from European, Asian, and Middle Eastern targets. The attackers also made use of a domain hosted on an Adobe server...
Jun 18, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cyber criminals will be trying to take advantage of the return of football’s Premier League with cyber attacks and scams looking to prey on fans excited about watching games for the first time in months, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has...
Jun 17, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
More than half of organisations expect to experience an email-borne attack in the coming months New research from Mimecast has revealed that 60 percent of organisations expect to suffer an email-borne attack in the coming year, highlighting the fact email continues to...
Jun 16, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Enterprises have been experimenting with work from home policies for years. Unfortunately, that experiment suddenly became the default this spring as local and state governments across the U.S. issued “stay at home” orders, leaving tens of millions of employees...
Jun 15, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
With the dramatic shift toward remote workforces over the last three months, many organisations are relying more heavily on cloud tools and application suites. One of the most popular is Microsoft’s OneDrive. While OneDrive may seem like a secure cloud storage...
Jun 12, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
40% of consumers hold business leaders personally responsible for ransomware attacks businesses suffer, according to a research from Veritas Technologies. Furthermore, research shows the public often wants restitution from businesses that fall foul of ransomware –...
Jun 11, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
On Tuesday Microsoft released software patches to plug at least 129 security holes in its Windows operating systems and supported software, by some accounts a record number of fixes in one go for the software giant. None of the bugs addressed this month are known to...
Jun 9, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Phishers are impersonating companies’ IT support teams and sending fake VPN configuration change notifications in the hopes that remote employees may be tricked into providing their Office 365 login credentials. Yet another Office 365 phishing campaign “The sender...
Jun 8, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Yet another reminder to always change your password after a company reports a data breach A new study by academics from Carnegie Mellon University’s Security and Privacy Institute (CyLab) has revealed that only a third of users actually change their passwords...
Jun 5, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The Advanced Protection Program was originally introduced to provide an additional layer of security for Google accounts considered to be at a higher risk of compromise or cyberattacks, such as those used by journalists, lawyers, political figures, and civil rights...
Jun 4, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has begun automatically deploying the new Edge web browser to Windows 10 users via Windows Update. “Microsoft has released a new Chromium-based version of Microsoft Edge,” a Microsoft support article tied to KB 4541302 notes. “This new version provides best...
Jun 3, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
iOS 14 — along with iPadOS 14 for the iPad — is on the horizon. Apple is likely to give us a preview at the all-virtual WWDC 2020 keynote speech on Monday 20 June, with the release being pushed to iPhones and iPads in the fall. But a new release means the...
Jun 2, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Valak malware, once classified as a loader for other malware, has been reconfigured to steal sensitive information and login credentials. That’s according to researchers from cyber security firm Cybereason, who say they have observed Valak malware targeting...
Jun 1, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple last week released security updates to address over fifty vulnerabilities impacting macOS and Safari. A total of 44 security flaws were fixed with the release of macOS Catalina 10.15.5, impacting components such as Accounts, AirDrop, Audio, Bluetooth, Calendar,...
May 29, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cloud Download for Reinstalling Windows Windows 10 has a new “Cloud Download” option you can use when resetting your PC to a default Windows system. When you head to Settings > Update & Security > Recovery and choose to reset your PC and remove everything,...
May 28, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple has released the fourth major update to the sixteenth version of MacOS. With the virtual WWDC just around the corner and the expected announcement of the seventieth version. this release comes as somewhat of a surprise. Nevertheless it is welcome. Headline...
May 27, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
In Q1 2020, the number of postings advertising access to these networks increased by 69 percent compared to the previous quarter. This may pose a significant risk to corporate infrastructure, especially now that many employees are working remotely. “Access for sale”...
May 26, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Hackers claim to have obtained more than 200 GB of archived data from Australian transportation and logistics giant Toll, and they have already started leaking it after the company refused to pay a ransom. Toll admitted earlier this month that it was hit by ransomware...
May 22, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
LogMeIn users are being targeted with fake security update requests, which lead to a spoofed phishing page. “Should recipients fall victim to this attack, their login credentials to their LogMeIn account would be compromised. Additionally, since LogMeIn has SSO with...
May 21, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A multiphase attack combines phishing with spear phishing and insider attack techniques. Difficult to detect and challenging to prevent, multiphase attacks are especially popular in Microsoft 365 due to growing popularity of the platform and the wide range of...
May 20, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
EasyJet has disclosed a massive data breach affecting nine million of its customers and involving over 2,000 credit-card details. EasyJet today said it has been the target of a “highly sophisticated” attacker, which gained access to nine million...
May 19, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The list of major companies announcing that employees can solely work from home until at least 2021 due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic remains small, but the number is likely to rise. In recent research conducted by the Society for Human Resources...
May 18, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The COVID-19 crisis has been testing the foundations of our lives, societies and economies posing huge challenges for the future. Organisations across industries are rightly focusing on their employees’ well-being, whilst making sure that their operations continue...
May 15, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
People aren’t protecting themselves from cybersecurity risks even though they know they should, a study on password psychology by LogMeIn reveals. Password psychology Year after year there is heightened global awareness of hacking and data breaches, yet consumer...
May 14, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Nearly a third (29%) of organisations in Europe and the Middle East still see usernames and passwords as one of the most effective means to protect access to their IT infrastructure, two years after the inventor of the complex static password admitted they don’t work,...
May 13, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Very few users take appropriate action to significantly reduce the risk of password compromise, according to a Balbix report. The study found that more than 99% of enterprise users reuse passwords, either across work accounts, or between work and personal accounts....
May 12, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Passwords remain the dominant method of authentication and top cause of data breaches, according to MobileIron. A new report also highlighted the importance of a zero trust security strategy that provides context-aware, conditional access to a device or user. EMA...
May 11, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Over 900,000 WordPress sites have been targeted in a new attack campaign which aims to redirect visitors to malvertising sites or plant backdoors into a theme’s header if an administrator is logged in. The majority of these attacks appear to be the work of a...
May 7, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Today is World Password Day, a day to reflect on just how vulnerable a poor password can leave you. As more and more of the processes and tools we use in our everyday lives shift to the online world, the number of passwords we need to create and remember increases....
May 6, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft is planning to put a stop to enterprise data theft via email forwarding by disabling Office 365’s email forwarding to external recipients by default. The company also wants to add improved external email forwarding controls which will allow Office 365...
May 5, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple launched a new 13-inch MacBook Pro yesterday. Cupertino announced the new 13-inch MacBook Pro, and although it’s a fairly minor update, it includes a major change to the design of the device. The new 13-inch MacBook Pro finally features a reliable keyboard...
May 4, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Office workers appear to have handled the transition to remote working remarkably well – with many not even remotely thrown off-balance. In fact, more than half are reportedly more productive than before lockdown measures were introduced. This is according to a...
May 1, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cyberattackers are disguising themselves as big name brands to execute phishing attacks, a Check Point Research report found. The data, released on Tuesday, unveils the most imitated brands for these attempts during Q1 2020. Phishing attacks are some of the most...
Apr 30, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Ransomware attacks are not at all unusual in the SMB community, as 46% of these businesses have been victims. And 73% of those SMBs that have been the targets of ransomware attacks actually have paid a ransom, Infrascale reveals. Yet, more than a quarter of the total...
Apr 29, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Breaches of corporate and government data appear to be running at a level even higher than experts had feared going into stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19, the International Association of IT Asset Managers (IAITAM) is warning. Last month it repeatedly warned of...
Apr 28, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Update 04/27/2020: Sources speaking with the Wall Street Journal are claiming that Apple is pushing back mass production of its “flagship iPhone” – which presumably refers to the iPhone 12 – because of coronavirus related manufacturing...
Apr 28, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The Online Safety Tech Industry Association (OSTIA) was launched yesterday, bringing together expert companies and advisory bodies to tackle online safety. With support from the National Crime Agency, GCHQ, the Home Office, NSPCC, and led by Cyan Forensics and PUBLIC,...
Apr 27, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Hackers suspected to have ties with the Vietnamese government are currently trying to break into Chinese state organisations in the hope of stealing valuable information about the Covid-10 outbreak. That’s according to US cyber security company FireEye, which...
Apr 27, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Robert Dyas has been hit with a data breach that exposed users’ confidential details, including their names, addresses and credit/debit card numbers. In an email sent to affected customers the company disclosed the security breach, stating that a card skimmer...
Apr 26, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
We have been expecting Apple to release Mac devices with its own processors for a while now. Most recently, Apple was rumoured to be working on several Mac devices powered by its own processors for 2021. Now, Bloomberg is reporting some more details on Apple’s own...
Apr 24, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
In a recent highly targeted BEC (Business Email Compromise) attack, hackers managed to trick three British private equity firms into wire-transferring a total of $1.3 million to the bank accounts fraudsters have access to — while the victimized executives thought they...
Apr 23, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft have introduced a new Yammer integration for Microsoft Teams. The company have lauched a new app called Communities that introduces stronger Yammer integration for Microsoft Teams. The new app essentially brings Yammer to Teams. “Put simply, it’s Yammer – in...
Apr 22, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
One of the world’s leading professional service companies, Cognizant, has confirmed that its systems have been hit by a ransomware attack. In a statement released on its website the multinational reported that some of its clients were experiencing “service...
Apr 21, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Remote desktop access can be extremely helpful for a variety of businesses, and Chrome Remote Desktop is one of the most popular applications out there. That said, due to its limitations, it’s better suited for personal than business use. Nonetheless, it’s worth...
Apr 20, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
With employees now working remotely, there is an unprecedented lack of control over data. Without much notice, in the course of just a few weeks, remote working has become the norm across the globe. This, in turn, has hyper-accelerated the digital transformation of...
Apr 17, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Router biz Linksys has reset all its customers’ Smart Wi-Fi account passwords after cybercrims accessed a bunch and redirected hapless users to COVID-19 themed malware. The mass reset took place after all user accounts were locked on 2 April, following infosec...
Apr 16, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A container shipping company has said malware could be to blame for the closure of one of its data centers last week. A container shipping company has said malware could be to blame for the closure of one of its data centers last week. The Mediterranean Shipping...
Apr 15, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
With Teams video usage exploding across the world because of the COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown, Microsoft has decided to accelerate the rollout of some much-needed features to help remote workers and schools hold better video calls. Microsoft has responded to calls...
Apr 14, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Transport Layer Security or TLS is a method of encrypting web traffic. It helps ensure your daily web browsing is safe and secure. Here’s how it works. Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a security protocol that’s mostly used to secure traffic between the web browser...
Apr 10, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The technology we love is easy to use. Paying the babysitter on Venmo, sharing a puppy video on Facebook or buying a novel on Amazon is a breeze. Most of the time, this is good. But as the security concerns swirling around Zoom show, there’s a dark side to making it...
Apr 9, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Scammers behind business email compromise (BEC) attacks have adjusted their tactics to match the current situation given the tens of millions of employees working from home during the COVID-19 outbreak. While normally, they’ve been attempting to convince...
Apr 9, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A Zoom shareholder has filed a lawsuit against the video-conferencing company for allegedly covering up security vulnerabilities in its app. The suit, filed April 7 in a San Francisco federal court, accuses top Zoom executives of failing to disclose flaws in the...
Apr 8, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Phishing emails try to ensnare potential victims by highlighting a subject designed to intrigue or alarm them. Often, they feature some topic in the news as a way to catch the recipient’s attention. With the coronavirus striking panic around the world,...
Apr 7, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft have announced the following features will be available to improve your Teams Meeting experience: Background effects in Teams meetings – Roadmap ID 62890 Rolling out beginning in mid April New experience for launching instant channel meetings – Roadmap...
Apr 7, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Russian telco operator Rostelecom was involved in a Border Gateway Patrol (BGP) hijacking incident that impacted hundreds of CDNs and cloud providers last week. Last week, Russia’s state-owned telco Rostelecom was involved in an apparent incident that hijacked the...
Apr 6, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft held an event last announcing a number of changes and upcoming launches. Two of the major pieces of news include a consumer version its communication and collaboration software “Teams” coming this year and its Office 365 suite rebranded as “Microsoft 365”...
Apr 3, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Nearly half (46%) of UK firms reported suffering a security breach or cyber-attack over the past year, an increase on previous years, but they are getting better at recovering from and deflecting such blows, according to the government. The annual Cyber Security...
Apr 2, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
OneDrive on MacOS is incorporating new methods for authentication. Microsoft will be gradually rolling this out to new OneDrive on MacOS customers in mid-April 2020. The rollout will be completed in mid-May. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap...
Apr 2, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Phishing attacks have been around since email went widespread in the mid-1990s. However, just like many other aspects of cybersecurity, phishing attacks have been becoming more sophisticated and effective in the last few years. Ironically, this rise in phishing...
Apr 1, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Now that we’re all stuck at home thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, video calls have gone from a novelty to a necessity. Zoom, the popular videoconferencing service, seems to be doing better than most and has quickly become one of, if not the most, popular option...
Apr 1, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
New Feature: Multi-Window Chat for Microsoft Teams The initial roll-out will be for Windows clients only. Microsoft will provide support for Mac and Linux clients in the coming weeks. Multi-Window Chat is a new Microsoft Teams feature which enables users to multitask...
Apr 1, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The government is using popular conferencing platform Zoom to conduct Cabinet meetings, despite reported Ministry of Defence (MoD) warnings about the security implications. The government appears to be heeding its own COVID-19 advice in forcing ministers to adhere to...
Mar 31, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft will soon be increasing Microsoft Teams team membership limit to 10 thousand members. Microsoft will begin enabling this for all tenants at the end of April and will be complete at the end of May. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap...
Mar 31, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Booz Allen Hamilton, the largest private contractor for the US intelligence community, has published a comprehensive report this week detailing 15 years (2004 to 2019) of cyber operations carried out by Russia’s military hackers. The report is a rarity in the...
Mar 30, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple has released iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4, which add full mouse and trackpad support to iPads, iCloud Drive folder sharing, new nine new Memoji stickers, and more. Arguably the biggest feature in this release is the mouse and keyboard support for iPads, which Apple...
Mar 30, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Sourced from the Australian Cyber Security Centre this post is designed to raise awareness of increasing COVID-19 themed malicious cyber activity, and provide practical cyber security advice that organisations and individuals can follow to reduce the risk of being...
Mar 27, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The router DNS hijacking attacks have targeted more than a thousand victims with the Oski info-stealing malware. Cybercriminals are hijacking routers and changing Domain Name System (DNS) settings, in order to redirect victims to attacker controlled sites...
Mar 25, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Authorities in the United States and Europe have issued warnings of increased malicious cyber-activity related to the ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. In an alert on Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that scammers are leveraging the current...
Mar 24, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The global spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus has had a notable impact on workplaces worldwide, and many organisations are encouraging employees to work from home. What are the cybersecurity implications of this shift? Having a sizable amount of employees...
Mar 23, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Some Ransomware operators have stated that they will no longer target health and medical organizations during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Last night, BleepingComputer reached out to the operators of the Maze, DoppelPaymer, Ryuk, Sodinokibi/REvil, PwndLocker,...
Mar 20, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The number of scams, threats, and malware campaigns taking advantage of public concern over the coronavirus is increasing each day. As a result, we’ve been actively monitoring emails within our spam honeypot to flag such threats and make sure our users are protected....
Mar 19, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cybercriminals have always used crises and natural disasters to fuel their social engineering activities. The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic is a massive human crisis, and criminals have been quick to take advantage. People are afraid, and fear is a primary social...
Mar 18, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Companies hacked through a single email. Incredible sums of money stolen or paid in ransom. All because an employee clicked on a malicious link. Unfortunately, phishing attacks affect numerous businesses every year. They are difficult to prevent, but getting to know...
Mar 17, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
An academic study found Microsoft’s Edge browser to be the least private, due to it sending device identifiers and web browsing pages to back-end servers. Microsoft Edge is one of the least private web browsers — even more so than other popular browsers like Google...
Mar 16, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Just 12% of more than 1,500 respondents believe their businesses are highly prepared for the impact of coronavirus, while 26% believe that the virus will have little or no impact on their business, according to a survey by Gartner. “This lack of confidence shows that...
Mar 13, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A vulnerability in Avast’s anti-tracking solution could allow malicious actors to perform man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks on HTTPS traffic, a security researcher has discovered. The security flaw, which impacts both Avast and AVG AntiTrack, as they share underlying...
Mar 12, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft Teams is the company’s answer to the need for user-friendly digital collaboration software in the modern workplace. It competes with Slack and will replace Skype for Business as the premier platform for remote teleworking. What Is Microsoft Teams? Microsoft...
Mar 11, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Threat actors can easily infiltrate networks because attacks evade detection by typical security protections. A new variant of the Paradise ransomware attacks rarely-targeted Microsoft Office Excel IQY files, providing a new and relatively inobtrusive way to...
Mar 10, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published the results of an investigation into the Android version of the Ring app which reportedly includes a plethora of trackers sending out customer data to third parties. On Monday, the digital rights group said Ring...
Mar 9, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The UK’s cybersecurity agency has updated its guidance on what to do after a ransomware attack, following a series of incidents where organisations were hit with ransomware, but also had their backups encrypted because they had left them connected to their...
Mar 8, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
After buying a used iPhone, you might wonder about its history. When first sold, did it leave Apple as a brand new device or one that had been previously refurbished? Luckily, there’s an easy way to tell. Here’s how. Find Your iPhone’s Model Number Open the Settings...
Mar 7, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Trend Micro blocked over 52 billion unique cyber-threats in 2019, 61 million of which were ransomware, according to its annual roundup report. The security firm revealed that email remained by far the most popular threat vector, accounting for 91% of all threats. It...
Mar 6, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
An alarming number of SMBs (small to medium businesses) in the US and UK are not prepared for a potential cyber attack or breach, BullGuard warns. One-third of companies with 50 or fewer employees report using free, consumer-grade cybersecurity, and one in five...
Mar 5, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Source: Microsoft Office 365 Message centre Microsoft takes a broad approach to service continuity, including potential effects of an outbreak such as COVID-19. While there is currently no foreseen impact to Microsoft’s operation of our services, we wanted to provide...
Mar 5, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
In November 2019, Microsoft previewed a new version of its Office app for Android and iOS, combining Word, Excel and PowerPoint into a single application. The Android version of the app was made available on Google Play a couple of weeks ago, but it is now officially...
Mar 4, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently issued an alert regarding the potential for a cyber response from Iran after U.S. military strikes. The alert acts as a primer for protecting critical infrastructure, complete with recommended actions —...
Mar 3, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
End users will no longer need to download the Quick Poll add-in from the store and manually install it in Outlook to create a poll after we pre-install the Poll add-in. Microsoft will be gradually rolling this out to Outlook for Mac and Outlook on the web (desktop)...
Mar 2, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
“Doomsday is here! The sky is falling! Windows 7 is out of support and all hell will break loose!” – or, at least, that’s what some cybersecurity experts and press outlets want you to think. In this article, I will offer some advice to businesses of all sizes that may...
Feb 28, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Researchers have uncovered a new business email compromise (BEC) threat actor, which they call Exaggerated Lion, targeting thousands of U.S. companies with money pilfering scams. The cybercrime ring is unique in its leveraging of Google’s cloud-based productivity...
Feb 27, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The Danish Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs recently published its Cyber and Information Security Strategy for the Maritime Sector. The strategy is part of the Danish government’s national strategy for cyber and information security and contains...
Feb 26, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The UK Department for Transportation has updated their Cyber Security for Ports and Port Systems good practice guide. This updates the previous 2016 version, and provides actionable advice on: developing a cyber security assessment and plan for important assets,...
Feb 25, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
French sporting retail giant Decathlon has become the latest big brand to expose user data via a misconfigured database, leaking over 123 million records including customer and employee information, according to researchers. A team at vpnMentor uncovered the 9GB...
Feb 25, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
In the last few decades, the maritime and offshore industries have gone through some considerable changes, globally. As most of the operations and proceedings of this industry have been evolving to a faster, better, and developed methodology, that is, digital...
Feb 24, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The 50,000 ships sailing the sea at any one time have joined an ever-expanding list of objects that can be hacked. Cybersecurity experts recently displayed how easy it was to break into a ship’s navigational equipment. This comes only a few years after researchers...
Feb 23, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages asset owner operators across all critical infrastructure sectors to review the below threat actor techniques and ensure the corresponding mitigations are applied. CISA responded to a cyberattack...
Feb 21, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
UK marine engineering consultancy London Offshore Consultants (LOC) Group has been hacked by a group known as Maze. The company, with more than 400 employees, saw its computers frozen on December 30 with hackers then demanding a ransom to unlock them. The hackers...
Feb 21, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Seventy-nine percent of companies store sensitive data in the public cloud, according to a McAfee survey. While these companies approve an average of 41 cloud services each, up 33 percent from last year, thousands of other services are used ad-hoc without vetting. In...
Feb 20, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The tech giant reported impressive revenue in everything but gaming. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke with investors on the company’s quarterly earnings call to share some numbers about Microsoft’s performance in the second quarter of the 2020 fiscal...
Feb 19, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Avast is harvesting users’ browser histories on the pretext that the data has been ‘de-identified,’ thus protecting your privacy. But the data, which is being sold to third parties, can be linked back to people’s real identities, exposing every...
Feb 18, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The DoppelPaymer Ransomware is the latest family threatening to sell or publish a victim’s stolen files if they do not pay a ransom demand. A new tactic being used by ransomware operators that perform network-wide encryption is to steal a victim’s files...
Feb 17, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
9,050,064,764 credentials have been recovered throughout 2019 which came from a total of 640 unique data breaches and include email addresses connected to plaintext passwords and usernames with plaintext passwords, SpyCloud reveals. That means, on average, each of...
Feb 16, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
What you need to know A newly discovered variant of the Emotet Trojan can hop from Wi-Fi network to Wi-Fi network. Emotet is a malware that can steal personal information, install ransomware, download other pieces of malware, and form botnets. The key to stopping it...
Feb 15, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A Swiss company thought to have sold among the most secure encryption products in the world was actually owned by US and German intelligence, allowing the CIA and BND to spy on allies and enemies around the world, it has emerged. A new report from The Washington...
Feb 14, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Several cybersecurity companies have spotted campaigns that use coronavirus-themed emails to deliver malware, phishing attempts and scams. The new coronavirus outbreak, which started in China, has made a lot of headlines recently and has caused global panic. Over...
Feb 13, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Average loss per BEC scam amounted to nearly $75,000, per complaint, on average. The FBI received 467,361 internet and cyber-crime complaints in 2019, which the agency estimates have caused losses of more than $3.5 billion, the bureau wrote in its yearly internet...
Feb 12, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Over the past year, deepfakes, a machine learning model that is used to create realistic yet fake or manipulated audio and video, started making headlines as a major emerging cyber threat. The first examples of deepfakes seen by the general public were mainly amateur...
Feb 11, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
It’s generally been accepted that Mac systems are much safer than Windows, but that could be starting to change as a new report shows Mac threats are growing faster than their Windows counterparts for the first time ever. Malwarebytes latest annual State of...
Feb 11, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
93 percent of total mobile transactions in 20 countries were blocked as fraudulent in 2019 according to a report on the state of malware and mobile ad fraud released by Upstream. The number of malicious apps discovered in 2019 rose to 98,000, up from 63K in 2018....
Feb 10, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Organizations are not making progress in reducing their endpoint security risk, especially against new and unknown threats, a Ponemon Institute study reveals. 68% IT security professionals say their company experienced one or more endpoint attacks that compromised...
Feb 7, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The United Nations’ European headquarters in Geneva and Vienna were hacked last summer, putting thousands of staff records at miscreants’ fingertips. Incredibly, the organization decided to cover it up without informing those affected nor the public. That is...
Feb 6, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple has released macOS Catalina 10.15.3, which includes bug fixes and security updates to the Mac Catalina operating system. Separately, Mac users running Mojave or High Sierra will find new Security Updates available for those respective operating systems....
Feb 5, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A British community housing charity was conned out of more than $1m in a domain spoofing and contractor impersonation scam. Red Kite Community Housing announced on Tuesday that it had fallen victim to a cyber-scam in which criminals posed as genuine service providers...
Feb 4, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The new Microsoft Edge browser, based on the Chromium project used by Google Chrome, brings a better browsing experience to Windows 10 PCs. One unique feature is the ability to use extensions from both Microsoft and Chrome Web Store. Here’s how to install and use...
Feb 3, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Trend Micro announced the results of research featuring a honeypot imitating an industrial factory. The highly sophisticated Operational Technology (OT) honeypot attracted fraud and financially motivated exploits. Complex investigation The six-month investigation...
Jan 31, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Email security miss rates are definitely a huge issue. Malicious files regularly bypass all of today’s leading email security products, leaving enterprises vulnerable to email-based attacks including ransomware, phishing and data breaches, according to BitDam....
Jan 30, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Two years ago, Apple abandoned its plan to encrypt iPhone backups in the iCloud in such a way that makes it impossible for it (or law enforcement) to decrypt the contents, a Reuters report claimed on Tuesday. Based on information received by multiple unnamed FBI and...
Jan 29, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Be extra careful when looking for a job online, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warns: cybercriminals are using fake job listings to trick applicants into sharing their personal and financial information, as well as into sending them substantial sums of...
Jan 28, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The proliferation of real-time payments platforms, including person-to-person (P2P) transfers and mobile payment platforms across Asia Pacific, has increased fraud losses for the majority of banks. FICO recently conducted a survey with banks in the region and found...
Jan 27, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Nearly 90 percent of global organisations were targeted with BEC and spear phishing attacks in 2019, reflecting cybercriminals’ continued focus on compromising individual end users, a Proofpoint survey reveals. Seventy-eight percent also reported that security...
Jan 24, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Chess is a game of foresight — just like cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is the chessboard where hackers and defenders are looking to checkmate each other. For now, hackers are on the winning side. Hackers are outmaneuvering defenders by launching a ransomware attack...
Jan 23, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A database containing the personal details of 56.25 million U.S. residents was exposed online. The database reportedly belongs to the CheckPeople.com website. Florida-based CheckPeople.com is a service that allows users to search for the personal information of...
Jan 22, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Organisations using a multi-cloud approach must ensure they align their strategy and chosen providers with their risk profile. The way business is conducted has undergone a rapid change in recent years, with an increasingly strong emphasis on immediate anytime,...
Jan 21, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Rapidly evolving cybersecurity threats are now commanding the attention of senior business leaders and boards of directors and are no longer only the concern of IT security professionals. A report from University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term...
Jan 20, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Ever received an email from the fictitious “Nigerian prince” who has so much wealth stashed someplace, but needs your help to retrieve it? By the way, this particular phishing scam is one of the longest-running internet frauds, and it still rakes in more...
Jan 17, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has discovered a major flaw in Windows 10 that could have been used by hackers to create malicious software that looked legitimate. Microsoft has issued a patch and said it had seen no evidence of the bug being exploited by...
Jan 16, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Worries about hackers and cyberattacks — not business rivals or encroaching red tape — are now most likely to keep CEOs awake at night. Cyber incidents are considered the top risk to businesses globally, according to a survey of 2,718 executives across 100...
Jan 15, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
CHQ has warned people not to do internet banking or use emails from computers with Windows 7 from Tuesday, when Microsoft will end support for the software. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the public-facing arm of the cyber spy agency, said that devices...
Jan 14, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The smartphone will remain the dominant consumer device into the new decade, but the arrival of 5G will not guarantee a surge in device upgrades, according to a GSMA Intelligence research. 5G upgrade Based on the results of a survey of 38,000 respondents across 36 key...
Jan 13, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
One of phishers’ preferred methods for fooling both targets and email filters is to use legitimate services to host phishing pages. The latest example of this involves Office 365 users being directed to phishing and malicious pages hosted on Office Sway, a web...
Jan 13, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Mozilla this week released Firefox 72 to the stable channel with advanced privacy protections that involve the blocking of fingerprinting scripts by default. Long focused on protecting users’ privacy when browsing the Internet, Mozilla launched Enhanced Tracking...
Jan 10, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cloudflare announced that it has acquired S2 Systems, a browser isolation startup founded by former Microsoft execs. The two companies did not reveal the acquisition price. Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO at Cloudflare, says that this acquisition is part of a new...
Jan 9, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
In 2020, organisations across the U.K. public sector should reprioritise their security best practices to help ensure they demonstrate healthy cyberhygiene. For the public sector specifically, it’s important for IT teams to utilise up-to-date cybersecurity knowledge...
Jan 8, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Netgear has revealed its latest range of home Wi-Fi routers at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, and these new products feature cutting edge networking tech that could make a big difference to the range and speed of your home network. First up is the new 4G LTE Orbi Tri-Band...
Jan 7, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
DSLRs might be seen by many as the dinosaurs of the camera world, but the new Canon 1DX Mark III is here to prove that they can still be exciting photographic innovators. The new powerhouse of sports photography, which was teased in a ‘development...
Jan 7, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The internet boom came bearing many gifts for businesses and individuals alike. Some of them include an interconnected world, e-commerce, and social media. However, it also brought with it many cyber security risks — and being hacked is one of them. In 2018 alone, an...
Jan 6, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Of today’s main communications mediums – text, phone calls and email – consumers get the most spam over phone and email: 70% said they receive spam often over email and 51% said the same for phone calls, a Zipwhip survey reveals. Fifty-four percent of people even use...
Jan 3, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Story Source: TechRadar New reports have claimed Microsoft Office was the most commonly exploited application worldwide as of the the third quarter of this year. Research from PreciseSecurity.com found that Microsoft Office solutions and applications were the target...
Jan 2, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Source: ArsTechnica By now, the privacy threats posed by Amazon Alexa and Google Home are common knowledge. Workers for both companies routinely listen to audio of users—recordings of which can be kept forever—and the sounds the devices capture can be used in criminal...