Cloud Consultancy News
Windows 10 Fall Update – Its Out Now
The latest Windows 10 update (knows as the Fall Update) started rolling out on 17th October. One nice feature is Files-on-Demand. This allows you to preview over 270+ different files types without having to have that application installed. For example if you have an...
Skyhigh Uncovers ‘KnockKnock,’ a Widespread Attack on Office 365 Corporate Email Accounts
Clpoud Access Security Broker, Skyhigh Networks, have detected a previously unknown botnet ‘KnockKnock'. The 'KoncoKnock' campaign is a sophisticated cyber attack on Office 365 Exchange Online email accounts, originating from 16 countries around the world and targeted...
Parliament Hacked In June By Iran
Iran has been blamed by British intelligence for June's ham-fisted "brute force" cyber attack on Parliament that resulted in 90 Parliamentary email accounts out of more than 3,000 being compromised. The Times newspaper, citing an unpublished 'secret intelligence...
Watch out for these high-pressure Apple malware scams
In the past, scams for Windows-based machines avoided using the name ‘Microsoft' - not that it made any difference to the legality of what they were doing. The Mac scammers have gone a step further by claiming to represent Apple's Support Centre, to the extent of...
Accenture Cloud Leak Exposed
Corporate consulting giant Accenture left sensitive corporate and client data exposed online for anyone to access. Fortunately for Accenture it seems that UpGuard director of cyber risk research Chris Vickery was the only one who stumbled upon it. He discovered the...
Kaspersky Hacked By Israeli Intelligence
According to the New York Times Israeli intelligence hacked the Russian security firm Kaspersky two years ago and found US National Security Agency (NSA) tools on its network.
Outlook Mobile App Update – New Calendar Features on iOS and Android
Microsoft have announced a major update to the Outlook app on Android and iOS, adding several top-requested calendar features that include: - Synced shared calendars. You can now view and edit Office 365 calendars and then share them with others from within the app....
New feature: Guest access in Microsoft Teams
Since Microsoft Teams became generally available six months ago, more than 125,000 organisations have discovered how teamwork comes to life in Teams. Today, Teams is getting even better with the roll out of guest access to all Office 365 commercial and education...
iPhone 8 Plus batteries swelling in at least 6 different reports
There have been at least six separate reports of iPhone 8 Plus batteries swelling to the point of splitting open their enclosures since the phones first went on sale on Sept. 22. Stories at MacRumors, The Next Web and 9to5mac as early as last week cited social media...
Google Pixel Buds do real-time language translation
One of the surprises we got from Google’s hardware event yesterday were a pair of bluetooth headphones called Pixel Buds. They’re wired behind the neck but they’re every bit a competitor to Apple’s AirPods. The cost is £159, are available in November and they’ll let...