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...
