Oct 31, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Analysis In recent years, China’s high-tech production miracle and globalisation have made it easy – perhaps too easy – for an outsider or newcomer to dabble in hardware. The ease of producing hardware with your brand on it might have been too seductive,...
Oct 30, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
A new ransomware outbreak has been detected attacking Russia, Ukraine and other countries in Eastern Europe. The malware appears to be targetting media companies across the continent, and three have confirmed the attack at the time of writing. Dubbed Bad Rabbit, the...
Oct 27, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
This is a good to have when you need to check up on your exchange rates. To use it click the Hamburger menu > Currency > enter your amount > choose a country. The calculator will automatically convert the rates or you can manually refresh it.
Oct 26, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Managing Cortana settings in Windows 10 is now more accessible with a dedicated Setting. It is easier to navigate with various settings broken down into easy to find categories such as Talk To Cortana, Permissions & History, Notifications, and More details.
Oct 25, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Edge in Windows 10 now delivers some great features when it comes to PDF’s. You can now edit PDF forms, mark them up and access a table of contents for your PDFs. There is also better support for EPUB (Adobe Digital Editions File) documents and the ability to...
Oct 24, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft may have given up on being a contender in the phone business, but they are not leaving it all to Google and Apple. The new Phone setting lets you hook up your Android or iPhone with Windows 10 allowing you to start one activity such as web browsing, email,...
Oct 24, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
This update includes new defences that will help protect your system from Ransomware attacks. Controlled Folder Access limits the damage a Ransomware attack can have on your computer by preventing malicious apps and threats from making changes to your files. Any time...
Oct 23, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Google is grappling with complaints that its expensive flagship Pixel 2 XL smartphones are suffering from screen ‘burn in’. The problem of ‘burn in’ or ‘image permanence’ is more commonly associated with obsolete cathode-ray tube (CRT) display...
Oct 20, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Communication is a big part of the Fall Creators Update. The My People app allows you to send a message, start a chat or share files with family, friends, and colleagues from your Taskbar. You can also assign favourite contacts you want to have quick access to,...
Oct 19, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
If you have a performance issue with Microsoft Edge, as was experienced by users after the September KB4041676 update, you can easily repair it yourself. Simply go to Start > Settings > Apps > Apps & Features, search for Edge, select it, click Advanced options,...
Oct 18, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
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...
Oct 17, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
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...
Oct 16, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
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...
Oct 13, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
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...
Oct 12, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
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...
Oct 11, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
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.
Oct 10, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
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...
Oct 9, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
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...
Oct 6, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
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...
Oct 5, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
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...
Oct 4, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
A third of UK small businesses operate at or below the “security poverty line” according to new research from Duo Security. The Cybersecurity company partnered with YouGov to survey senior decision makers across the UK to determine how much they are spending on...
Oct 3, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Equifax said hackers may have stolen the personal information of 2.5 million more U.S. consumers than it initially estimated, bringing the total to 145.5 million. The company said the additional customers were not victims of a new attack but rather victims who the...
Oct 2, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
Ransomware has been named as one of the most pressing threats to society by officers at Europol. The force has released a new report which claims that ransomware is reaching “epidemic” levels, eclipsing other areas of cybercrime such as data breaches,...
Oct 1, 2017 | Cloud Consultancy News
In what looks like an Apple oversight, a developer has discovered that apps can access image metadata and therefore a pretty good history of iThing users’ location. READ THE FULL STORY HERE AT THE REGISTER