Jul 31, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
On Saturday (July 30), digital asset $XRP is the highest percentage gainer (vs USD) among the top 30 cryptoassets by market cap, which has helped it to overtake $ADA and take 6th place. According to data by TradingView, on crypto exchange Bitstamp, at 4:29 p.m. UTC on...
Jul 30, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
On July 21, 2022, Akamai mitigated the largest DDoS attack that ever hit one of its European customers. The attack hit an Akamai customer in Eastern Europe that was targeted 75 times in the past 30 days with multiple types of DDoS attacks, including UDP, UDP...
Jul 29, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Attackers are becoming faster at exploiting previously undisclosed zero-day flaws, according to Palo Alto Networks. The company warns in its 2022 report covering 600 incident response (IR) cases that attackers typically start scanning for vulnerabilities within 15...
Jul 28, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Attackers are increasingly leveraging Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions as covert backdoors into servers, which hide deep in target environments and provide a durable persistence mechanism for attackers. While prior research has been published on specific...
Jul 27, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has secured a five-year partnership with Telstra, Australia’s largest telco, to accelerate the country’s digital transformation. The agreement is one of the largest partnerships Microsoft has established with a telecommunications provider globally, the...
Jul 26, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Phishing emails impersonating LinkedIn continue to make the bulk of all brand phishing attempts; according to Check Point, 45% of all email phishing attempts in Q2 2022 imitated the style of communication of the professional social media platform, with the goal of...
Jul 25, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple last week released OS updates for all of its devices, likely the final ones to appear before the new versions land in the fall. On the surface, they seem quite minor, with very few new features to speak of, but that doesn’t mean you should drag your feet on...
Jul 22, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
How do you teach an autonomous drone to fly itself? Practice, practice, practice. Now Microsoft is offering a way to put a drone’s control software through its paces millions of times before the first takeoff. The cloud-based simulation platform, Project AirSim, is...
Jul 21, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Make your messages even more expressive with Memoji sticker effects, bubble effects, full-screen animations, camera effects and more. You’ll need iMessage – an Apple feature – to send message effects. Find out the difference between iMessage and SMS/MMS texts....
Jul 20, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Applying patches may be a basic security principle, but that doesn’t mean it’s always easy to do in practice. The ways that we patch our organisations’ IT may change over time, but patching – in general – has always been good for...
Jul 19, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Can attackers create a face mask that would defeat modern facial recognition (FR) systems? A group of researchers from from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel Aviv University have proven that it can be done. “We validated our adversarial mask’s effectiveness...
Jul 18, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Sometimes phishers are just after your username and password, but other times they are after every scrap of sensitive information they can extract from you. To do that, they use tools like the phishing kit recently analyzed by Akamai researchers. By misusing the...
Jul 16, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
People in Gloucester have had their signatures, addresses, national insurance numbers, bank details and driving licences accessed by hackers, a councillor has revealed. Many local people’s lives were thrown into disarray in December when council services were...
Jul 15, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Attackers used adversary-in-the-middle attacks to steal passwords, hijack sign-in sessions and skip authentication and then use victim mailboxes to launch BEC attacks against other targets. Microsoft researchers have uncovered a massive phishing campaign that can...
Jul 14, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
A phishing attack on users of Uniswap, a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, has caused millions of dollars in losses. The incident first came to light on Monday when Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said his threat intelligence team “detected a potential exploit on...
Jul 13, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has just released the July 2022 Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10. For Windows 11 users, yesterday’s update (KB5015814) includes the new Search Highlights feature that Microsoft previously introduced on Windows 10 earlier this year. Search...
Jul 12, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Hackers could unlock and remotely start virtually all models of Honda cars, according to security researchers. Last week, a security researcher who goes by Kevin2600 published a technical report and videos on a vulnerability that he claims allows anyone armed with a...
Jul 11, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Web3 projects lost over $2 billion in the first half of the year, meaning 2022 has already seen more to hacks and exploits than the entirety of 2021, making it the most expensive year for Web3 by far. Over the last three months, projects including blockchain-based...
Jul 8, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple Inc. plans its largest smartwatch display to date, a bigger battery and a rugged metal casing as part of the upcoming Apple Watch geared toward extreme sports athletes, according to people with knowledge of the plans. The rugged version of the Apple Watch will...
Jul 7, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple is previewing a groundbreaking security capability that offers specialized additional protection to users who may be at risk of highly targeted cyberattacks from private companies developing state-sponsored mercenary spyware. Apple is also providing details of...
Jul 6, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
A new phishing campaign on WhatsApp is scamming individuals who want to work in the United Kingdom. As documented by Malwarebytes, the scheme’s operators are sending out messages claiming to be from the UK government, offering a free visa and other benefits to...
Jul 5, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft in June 2022 rolled out a host of new features as it continues rapidly developing Teams, its collaboration platform for hybrid work with 270 million monthly active users. Multitasking in Teams meetings on the iPad has improved. There’s now a...
Jul 4, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cymulate announced the results of a survey, revealing that two-thirds of companies who have been hit by cybercrime in the past year have been hit more than once, with almost 10% experiencing 10 or so more attacks a year. Research taken from 858 security professionals...
Jul 1, 2022 | Cloud Consultancy News
A phishing campaign using fake voicemail notifications has been and is still targeting various US-based organizations, in an attempt to grab employees’ Office365 and Outlook login credentials, Zscaler warns. The campaing seems to be a repeat of a previous, similar...
