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,...
