Feb 28, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Unless you work in the IT security industry, there’s something you may not be aware of. You might not realise just how vulnerable your computer security really is. We all need to shake off a few misconceptions to help every business stay safer. First, we need to get...
Feb 27, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Employees working from home on a company-provided computer are demonstrating a clear lack of cybersecurity knowledge through high-risk behaviour, according to a report released by Ivanti. Using work passwords for consumer websites The report found that one in four...
Feb 26, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
It’s an unfortunate fact that cybersecurity is rarely the foremost of concerns among small- to medium-sized businesses. However, investing in cybersecurity is becoming even more important as these organizations undergo digital transformation. It may seem like there...
Feb 25, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
If a reminder were needed that no platform is safe from infection, a brand new strain of malware has been found hiding on 30,000 Macs waiting to be told what to do. As Ars Technica reports, the new macOS malware was discovered by security vendor Red Canary, with the...
Feb 25, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cybersecurity Over the Next Decade The Global Risks Report, recently published by the World Economic Forum, has put cybersecurity as a key risk factor along with the climate crisis, global debt and the COVID-19 pandemic. They labelled cybersecurity failure and IT...
Feb 24, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
UPDATED More than 600 enterprises, universities, and government agencies may have inadvertently exposed their ServiceNow login credentials – many with administrator privileges – due to a vulnerability in the IT support platform. Now patched, the security flaw centered...
Feb 24, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
The fundamental shift to home and remote working over the past 12 months has caused a major headache for cybersecurity professionals. This is because many of them are accustomed to a much more controllable security surface area that office buildings and on-premise...
Feb 22, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has added a new feature to its 365 Apps which should make it easier to keep staff working even if they can’t connect to the internet, plus another option for shared devices. Microsoft’s apps generally require customers’ devices to connect...
Feb 20, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Phishers are trying to trick users into opening a “LinkedIn Private Shared Document” and entering their login credentials into a fake LinkedIn login page, security researcher JB Bowers warns. The phishing attack The phishing message is delivered via LinkedIn’s...
Feb 19, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
The use of hidden ‘spy pixels’ in standard emails is now ‘endemic’, according to an investigation by email service Hey. Hey analysed its traffic at the BBC’s request and discovered that nearly two-thirds of emails sent to users contained...
Feb 18, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has quietly ported its unified Office app to the iPad, one year to the week after it was released for the iPhone. What took so long? We don’t know, and Microsoft isn’t saying: In fact, there isn’t even an official announcement of the release as I write this....
Feb 17, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
A new phishing campaign is attempting to lure victims into downloading the latest version of a malware trojan – and it has links to one of the most prolific cyber-criminal operations active in the world today. The Bazar trojan first emerged last year and a successful...
Feb 16, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Every month of the year has some sort of tax relevance somewhere in the world, and tax scamming cybercrooks take advantage of the many different regional tax filing seasons to customise their criminality to where you live. In the UK, the 2019/2020 tax year ended on 05...
Feb 15, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple’s forthcoming iOS 14.5 release, currently in beta, will conceal the IP address of Safari web surfers from Google’s Safe Browsing service, integrated into Safari to spot fraudulent websites. On Wednesday, Maciej Stachowiak, head of WebKit engineering...
Feb 12, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
The new phishing kit “LogoKit” allows cybercriminals to easily deploy the malware on a victim’s device. Threat actors are investing more in phishing kits to simplify and expand their phishing activities. Cybercriminals are developing new phishing strategies and...
Feb 12, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
The government has launched a new independent body to oversee standards in the UK’s booming cybersecurity sector. Britain’s £8.3bn cyber sector has enjoyed continued growth during the pandemic, as a shift to homeworking has encouraged businesses and individuals to...
Feb 11, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Some serious security vulnerabilities existed in the WordPress plugin Limit Login Attempts Reloaded. While the developers fixed the bug, they didn’t explicitly announce it to the users. Limit Login Attempts Reloaded Plugin Vulnerabilities Security researcher Veno...
Feb 11, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
At first glance, most organisations are improving their cybersecurity and getting better at defending direct cyberattacks. However, in this shape-shifting space of cybersecurity, hackers have already shifted to indirect targets. This situation makes new battlegrounds...
Feb 10, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
The truth is that it’s no longer enough to keep your physical well-being safe. As the rise of digital technology continues to influence various industries, your digital security will continue to become just as important. In the digital world, you have to worry about...
Feb 10, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Chances are, your employees have a lot on their plates right now. With lives upended by a global pandemic and many workers reporting from home for the first time, lacking their traditional work tools and switching to unfamiliar ones, worries are probably running high....
Feb 9, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
A top challenge for many CEOs over the next few years is managing a remote workforce, a new IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) study reveals. CEOs of outperforming organizations – those who were in the top 20 percent for revenue growth of those surveyed – are...
Feb 9, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
What are the security risks of the remote workforce? According to a survey of 6,000 employees by Kaspersky, 73% of employees working remotely “have not yet received any specific cybersecurity awareness guidance or training from their employer.” Adding to...
Feb 8, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
New research further sows that the COVID-19 pandemic has opened the door for cybercriminals to take advantage of people struggling during these difficult times. Many people are rethinking investments to improve their financial situation, which has played right into...
Feb 8, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft have announced a new initiative called Viva, an Employee Experience Platform (EXP) for the new way of doing work. “We built Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 as the organizing layer for all the ways people work, learn, and collaborate,” Microsoft corporate...
Feb 5, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
In a series of posts on Twitter, Microsoft on Tuesday warned of an uptick in gift card-themed business email compromise (BEC) attacks targeting K-12 school teachers by impersonating their colleagues. “We detected a recent spike in business email compromise (BEC)...
Feb 4, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
The quantity of cyberthreats businesses have started facing since the pandemic kicked off has increased significantly. Among all the different types of threats they are facing, email-based scams appear to be the most prevalent. This is according to a new report from...
Feb 3, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple has quietly added several anti-exploit mitigations into its flagship mobile operating system in what appears to be a specific response to zero-click iMessage attacks observed in the wild. The new mitigations were discovered by Samuel Groß, a Google Project Zero...
Feb 2, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
The British branch of Mensa, the society for people with high IQs, admitted last week that it has been hit by a cyber attack. According to the FT, Mensa CEO John Stevenage informed the board that the society’s website had become a victim of the cyber attack....
Feb 1, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Far too many executives and employees think ransomware is a nuisance delivered via an obviously fake phishing email. This misconception leaves companies exposed to attack. Ransomware has become a commodity threat that fosters new tools and technologies; skills and...
