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UK councils exposed to 98 million cyber attacks over five years
Local authorities across the UK have been exposed to more than 98 million cyber attacks in the past five years, according to a new study. After conducting freedom of investigation requests on councils around the country, privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch found...
Apple iOS 12 to enable iPhone apps to be developed that can run on MacOS
Apple's iOS 12, the next iteration of the company's mobile operating system, will offer developers the opportunity to create iPhone apps that will also run on Apple's desktop operating system. That's according to Bloomberg's Mark Guttman, who claims that Apple's...
Disk image flaw in Apple MacOs APFS file system could lose user data
Apple's APFS proprietary file system is suffering from a disk image vulnerability that could lead to data loss, according to an Apple software developer. APFS, which simply stands for Apple File System, aims to fix core problems on MacOS, iOS, tvOS and WatchOS....
Fine Tune Your Firewall Rules – 6
Every firewall comes with built-in reporting tools that provide details about your traffic. Another firewall rules best practice is to audit those logs regularly to look for changes or anomalies that might suggest modifications to your firewall settings. This log data...
Fine Tune Your Firewall Rules – 5
As you go through your list of firewall rules and update your documentation, you may find that you have more than one rule serving the same purpose. If you can eliminate one of those rules or combine some rules to be more effective, that can speed up your network....
Fine Tune Your Firewall Rules – 4
Your network is always changing. You are gaining new users and new devices. Those users and devices are accessing new applications and new services. And applications and devices that once accounted for a high percentage of network traffic may become far less popular...
Office 2019 will be for Windows 10 users only
The next major upgrade to its Office productivity suite, Office 2019, will be available to Windows 10 users only - leaving Mac users and users of Windows 7 out in the cold, or forcing users to upgrade to the cloud-based version, Office 365. The vast majority of...
Microsoft Looks To Poach Dropbox, Box And Google Customers With ‘Free’ OneDrive
Starting 6th February, Microsoft is offering OneDrive for Business for free for the remaining term of an existing contact for those companies using a competitors product. But, and there is a larger qualifier for the offer, you must have at least a 500 user commitment....
Microsoft to dump Windows 10 S in favour of Windows 10 ‘S Mode’
Microsoft is already planning to dump Windows 10 S, its stripped-down operating system intended to take on Chrome at the low-end. Instead, the software giant will install an "S Mode" on standard versions of Windows 10, locking them down to a Microsoft-curated walled...
Cyber Crime Ring Responsible For $530m In Global Losses Shut Down
Law enforcement agencies around the world have shut down what they claim was one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings, behind as much as $530 million in consumer losses across the world. Thirty-six people have been arrested by authorities in Australia, Britain,...