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Microsoft Teams will let you have secret offline meetings to gossip about all the things you shouldn’t
Source: Techradar By: Mike Moore If you're looking to share some workplace secrets, or just blow off some steam and vent, then a new Microsoft Teams feature could be ideal. The video conferencing platform is releasing a new "offline meetings" feature that will allow...
More UK councils caught by Capita’s open AWS bucket blunder
Source: The Register By: Paul Kunert The bad news train keeps rolling for Capita, with more local British councils surfacing to say their data was put on the line by an unsecured AWS bucket, and, separately, pension clients warning of possible data theft in March's...
KeePass exploit helps retrieve cleartext master password, fix coming soon
Source: Bleeping Computer By: Bill Toulas The popular KeePass password manager is vulnerable to extracting the master password from the application's memory, allowing attackers who compromise a device to retrieve the password even with the database is locked. The...
Microsoft to discontinue Windows 10 21H2 support
Windows 10 version 21H2 will no longer receive support from Microsoft, starting next month. "On June 13, 2023, Home, Pro, Pro Education, and Pro for Workstations editions of Windows 10, version 21H2 will reach end of servicing," the company said in its Windows Health...
TP-Link routers provide entry point for Chinese hackers
Malicious firmware is vendor-agnostic, so other routers, not just TP-Link, are at risk of being co-opted into a 'sophisticated' attack A malicious firmware implant designed to infect TP-Link routers has been discovered by researchers at security vendor Check Point....
WhatsApp now lets you lock chats with a password or fingerprint
Meta is now rolling out 'Chat Lock,' a new WhatsApp privacy feature allowing users to block others from accessing their most personal conversations. Chat Lock will create a new folder that can be locked with a password or biometric methods like a fingerprint. You can...
Greatness phishing-as-a-service threatens Microsoft 365 users
Manufacturing businesses, healthcare organizations, and tech companies in English-speaking countries are the most targeted by phishers leveraging a relatively new phishing-as-a-service (PaaS) tool called Greatness, created to phish Microsoft 365 users. According to...
TP-Link routers targeted by Mirai botnet once again, US government warns
The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning businesses to patch TP-Link routers which are being actively targeted by malicious actors looking to recruit them into the Mirai botnet. “These types of vulnerabilities are frequent...
Capita cyberattack could cost the firm £20m
Capita has warned investors that it might face a financial setback of up to £20 million due to last month's cyberattack that resulted in disturbances for the firm's customers. Capita informed the London Stock Exchange in a statement on Wednesday that despite...
How does Microsoft Defender for Business compare to Defender for Enterprise?
Article Source: Practical365 Written by: Thijs Lecomte Three licenses are available for Microsoft Defender for Business: Defender for Endpoint Plan 1, Defender for Endpoint Plan 2, and Defender for Business. A Plan 1 license is limited and contains only Antivirus...