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...
