Jan 22, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Online users are more likely to reveal private information based on how website forms are structured to elicit data, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have determined. “The objective was to demonstrate that we are able to cause smartphone and PC...
Jan 21, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
A rising onslaught of phishing messages delivered via SMS (aka “smishing”) has been hitting mobile users around the world in the last few months. The fake messages impersonate payment, package delivery and streaming services, government and healthcare organizations,...
Jan 20, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Videoconferencing has become a routine part of everyday life for remote workers, students, and families. Yet widespread adoption of this technology has also attracted nefarious characters whose motivations can range from simple disruption to full-out espionage. It’s...
Jan 19, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Changes moved back to May, while Indian Supreme Court receives calls to ban the app on grounds of national security WhatsApp announced last week it was delaying the introduction of its new privacy policy by three months to 15th May to better explain to users what type...
Jan 18, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Loading remotely hosted images instead of embeedding them directly into emails is one of the latest tricks employed by phishers to bypass email filters. Phishers are always finding new ways trick defenses Phishing emails – especially when impersonating popular brands...
Jan 15, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
DarkMarket, the world’s largest illegal marketplace on the dark web, has been taken offline in an international operation involving Germany, Australia, Denmark, Moldova, Ukraine, the United Kingdom (the National Crime Agency), and the USA (DEA, FBI, and IRS)....
Jan 14, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Email security provider Mimecast said on Tuesday that hackers had hijacked its products in order to spy on its customers. The company said it had been alerted to the attack by investigators at Microsoft and that “a sophisticated threat actor” had compromised the...
Jan 13, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cybersecurity is an arms race, with defensive tools and training pushing threat actors to adopt even more sophisticated and evasive intrusion techniques as they attempt to gain a foothold in victim networks. Most modern endpoint protection (EPP) services are capable...
Jan 12, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
WhatsApp is changing its terms of service to force users to share personal data including phone numbers and locations with its parent company, Facebook. Some critics, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, have suggested users move to the encrypted messaging apps Signal and...
Jan 11, 2021 | Cloud Consultancy News
I’m sure that you carry a lot of data around with you on your iPhone, personal data that you wouldn’t want others to gain access to. While iOS is great at keeping your data secure, it’s a good idea every so often to take the time to check that...
