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Jaff, ransomware that has familiar traits to the Locky malware, is sending five million emails an hour in an attempt to infect users' PCs - and will demand 1.79 Bitcoin (£2,780) to unlock encrypted computer files if it succeeds. According to Forcepoint Security Lab,...

If you own or use a HP computer it's time to check whether either C:\Windows\System32\MicTray64.exe or C:\Windows\System32\MicTray.exe in installed. If either is, you have an active keylogger recording all key presses and need to take action by renaming the executable...

Although Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud service, regular backups provide an additional layer of protection from user errors and intentional malicious actions. Our Acronis Office 365 Mailbox Backup solution helps prevent against data loss with 24/7 backup for...

VMs allow you to experiment with other operating systems. They allow you to work safely with more reliability and security: VMs are essentially like working in a sandbox environment (see * note). Working within such a controlled environment when running programs is a...

Over the weekend, Google’s Project Zero researchers Tavis Ormandy and Natalie Silvanovich tweeted about discovering what Tavis referred to as “the worst Windows remote code exec in recent memory. This is crazy bad.” This bug could work against a default installation...

A virtual machine is a computer application or file (typically called an image) that behaves like an actual computer. It runs on your current operating system in a window on your desktop to allow you to experiment with different operating systems, just like you would...

UK banks (including Barclay's, HSBC, Lloyd's, NatWest and Standard Chartered) have a total of 324 domain spoofs controlled by cyber criminals that are aimed at fooling customers and retrieving their information. Security research and intelligence company DomainTools...

1 - Log into the Office 365 portal (http://portal.office.com) and click your photo in the top-right of the page 2 - Click View Account 3 - Click the Security and Privacy menu to the left or the Manage Security and Privacy link on the main area of the page 4 - Click...

The moneymaking machines at the core of Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, are notably different. But the respective kings of online retailing, software and internet search should all credit a relatively new line of business for lifting...

The last time Microsoft commented formally, they claimed 85 million active monthly Office 365 users in October 2016. On their April 27 analyst call to discuss Q3 FY17 results, CEO Satya Nadella said that the new number is “more than 100 million monthly active users.”...