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...