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...