Sep 30, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The Microsoft security platform formerly known as Microsoft Threat Protection has a new name and new capabilities, announced at Microsoft Ignite last week. The new name, Microsoft Defender, brings Microsoft 365 Defender and Azure Defender under the same umbrella....
Sep 29, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Eradicating email entry Email is still the most used attack vector for opportunistic and targeted attacks and is typically the starting point for social engineering attacks, the delivery vehicle for a dropper or payload attachment, or the link to an exploit kit or...
Sep 28, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A new perpetual licence version for Office will be released in the second half of 2021, Microsoft announced on Tuesday at the Ignite 2020 virtual event. While the company did not disclose the name of the product, it did reveal that the new version of Office will be...
Sep 26, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Image: Devin Edwards A cybercrime group has been busy over the past months placing malicious ads on adult-themed websites in order to redirect users to exploit kits and infect them with malware. Named Malsmoke, the group has operated on a scale far above similar other...
Sep 25, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Hackers are actively exploiting the Zerologon vulnerability in real-world attacks, Microsoft’s security intelligence team said this morning. “Microsoft is actively tracking threat actor activity using exploits for the CVE-2020-1472 Netlogon EoP...
Sep 24, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft announced a slew of updates for Microsoft Teams meetings at Ignite, including more Together Mode scenes, custom layouts, breakout rooms and automated recaps. The maximum number of people who can attend a meeting is also expanding to 1,000 participants later...
Sep 23, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple’s Translate app, introduced in iOS 14, allows iPhone users to quickly translate between languages using text or voice input. With speech output, support for a dozen languages, and a comprehensive built-in dictionary, it’s an essential tool for travelers. Here’s...
Sep 22, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple’s yearly iPhone update, iOS 14, is finally here. As always, the free download adds a handful of new features, tweaks, and enhancements to iPhones old and new. Widgets on the Home Screen For the first time in iPhone history, the Home screen is changing. You can...
Sep 21, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Imagine a thief walks into your home and rummages through your personal belongings. Instead of stealing them, he locks all your valuables into a safe and forces you to pay a ransom for the key to unlock the safe. What choice do you have? Substitute your digital space...
Sep 18, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) received 59,806 cyber crime reports, averaging 164 reports each day, or one report every 10 minutes, during the 12 months between July 2019 and June this year. The ACSC, a division within the Australian Signals Directorate...
Sep 17, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Lloyds Bank customers are being targeted by a sophisticated email and SMS messaging phishing campaign, according to an investigation by law practice Griffin Law. An estimated 100 people have reported receiving fake communication purporting to be from Lloyds, which is...
Sep 16, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple has unveiled an all-in-one monthly subscription in an attempt to put the tech giant squarely at the centre of people’s digital lives. The “Apple One” subscription will charge up to £30 a month for a bundle of services such as Apple Music, iCloud and a...
Sep 16, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Visa has issued a warning about new digital skimming malware with a sophisticated design intended to circumvent detection by security tools. The card giant said its Payment Fraud Disruption (PFD) group first discovered the “Baka” skimmer in February whilst analyzing a...
Sep 15, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A new Thanos ransomware strain is trying and failing to deliver the ransom note onto compromised systems by overwriting the computers’ Windows master boot record (MBR). The new Windows MBR locker module has been discovered by security researchers at Palo Alto...
Sep 14, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple has announced plans to invest in two of the world’s largest wind turbines in Denmark and says its huge Danish data center is now operational. Apple announced its Danish data center plans in 2015 and revealed its 45,000 square-meter facility in Viborg,...
Sep 11, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
In February 2020, images, video and information about Microsoft’s ‘Project Moca’ productivity feature for Outlook started leaking. But it wasn’t until very late August that Microsoft finally acknowledged officially — via a blog post...
Sep 10, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has moved its new app Microsoft Lists to generally availability as an add-on to its popular Teams collaboration and video-meeting app. This means the new Lists app, which it announced at Build 2020, is now available to all of Microsoft 365 commercial and...
Sep 9, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Total available mobile spectrum in the UK will increase by about a fifth after the auction The government has claimed a major leap in Britain’s ‘digital infrastructure revolution’, by announcing that the 700 MHz airwave band is clear for 5G...
Sep 8, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
One of the most useful tools in the quest for productivity in office work is the use of keyboard shortcuts. The proper shortcuts can turn your keyboard from a writing tool into a command center for your computer. For Apple users, the proprietary keys can be daunting...
Sep 7, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Maintain eye contact, offer a firm handshake, dress appropriately: the basic rules that define a professional attitude at work are well-established, and office etiquette evolves only slowly. But with the office effectively moving online, many codes that make up...
Sep 4, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cyber-security firm ESET has published a report today detailing a new strain of Windows malware that the company has named KryptoCibule. ESET says the malware has been distributed since at least December 2018, but only now surfaced on its radar. According to the...
Sep 3, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
BEC scammer groups are growing more brazen. The average sum that a BEC group will try to steal from a targeted company is now around $80,000 per attack, according to an industry report published on Monday. The number is up from $54,000, the average sum that BEC groups...
Sep 2, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
As of September 1, Apple software, from Safari to macOS to iOS, now rejects new HTTPS and other SSL/TLS certificates that are valid for more than 398 days, plus or minus some caveats. If that sounds familiar, it’s because The Register said so in February before...
Sep 1, 2020 | Cloud Consultancy News
A 350% increase in phishing websites was reported in the first quarter of the year, many targeting hospitals and health care systems and hindering their work responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.N. counterterrorism chief said Thursday. Vladimir Voronkov told the...