Jan 31, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
When faced with an external attack or data breach, a business is helpless unless it has an incident response plan firmly in place. The goal of such a plan is to minimise the damage of an attack, meaning that the recovery effort should take as little time as possible...
Jan 30, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Hover Card is a new OneDrive for Business File Office 365 feature. Basically now as soon as you hover your mouse over a file you will be able to see file details including access stats (number of views, who viewed and who modified). In SharePoint Online document and...
Jan 29, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
2017 was a record-setting year in the fight against cybercrime. Based on analysis of real world cybercrime attacks, ThreatMetrix confirmed a 100 percent increase in volume of attacks over the last two years. The good news is that record numbers of these attacks are...
Jan 26, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple’s HomePod will be released on February 9, around two months after it was first due to go on sale. The Siri-powered smart speaker, a competitor to Amazon’s Echo range and the Google Home speaker, was announced in June last year and was originally due...
Jan 25, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
An investigation by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and security biz Lookout has uncovered Dark Caracal, a surveillance-toolkit-for-hire that has been used to suck huge amounts of data from Android mobiles and Windows desktop PCs around the world. Dark...
Jan 24, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
One of Gmail’s most effective security features is hardly used by anyone, Google has revealed. Two-factor authentication (2FA) has been enabled on less than 10 per cent of active Google accounts, the company says. The feature is designed to make it much harder for...
Jan 23, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
In excess of a million email addresses and hacked credentials taken from some of the UK’s foremost legal firms are floating around on the dark web, according to a new report. To be precise, security outfit RepKnight reckons that it found almost 1,160,000 email...
Jan 22, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
London — Apple today announced 70 colleges and universities in Europe have adopted Everyone Can Code, a comprehensive program designed by Apple to help everyone learn to build mobile apps. These colleges and universities are adopting Apple’s App Development with Swift...
Jan 22, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Electric cars may be growing in popularity, but cyber security giant Kaspersky has warned drivers to be wary of chargers. According to Kaspersky, car manufacturers may be investing heavily into electric vehicles, expecting a market shift from petrol and diesel any...
Jan 20, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
If your a Small Business owner your most have experienced a problem with what should be simple Excel formulas and struggled for ages trying to get them correct. PC World have put together a great article that can help you. Click here to view the...
Jan 19, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Four of Google Chrome’s most popular extensions, which have amassed more than 500,000 downloads in total, are thought to be malicious. According to ArsTechnica, Google has since banned the extensions from the Chrome Web Store, but they reveal weaknesses in what...
Jan 18, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple’s macOS is reportedly the target of a new DNS hijacking exploit. The malware is being likened to the DNSChange trojan that affected over four million computers in 2011… This sort of malware works by changing DNS server settings on affected computers, thus...
Jan 17, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
BT’s consumer division has today announced new fibre-to-the-cabinet broadband packages that will boost the bandwidth available to customers from a current maximum – from the BT network – of 78 megabits per second (Mbps) to 314Mbps. The packages,...
Jan 16, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Ransomware has been getting a lot of press lately, and understandably so. In recent months, there has been a tidal wave of ransomware attacks targeting numerous well-known businesses, and the threat is expected to continue to wreak havoc across the world in the...
Jan 15, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
A flaw in WhatsApp’s group messaging protocol means that, despite its vaunted end-to-end (E2E) encryption, messages can still be read by unwanted eyes, researchers from Germany’s Ruhr University Bochum have found. Encryption has always been one of the more...
Jan 14, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
The file-storage company filed papers confidentially to go public, a source close to the company said, for a much-delayed and much-anticipated IPO later this year. The listing, first reported by Bloomberg, will test Dropbox’s most recent valuation, $10 billion, which...
Jan 13, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cementing January as the worst month of the year, at least for Apple, another bug has been uncovered in MacOS High Sierra. Although not particularly serious, it does reflect badly on the world’s most successful company. Eric Holtam, a Mac developer, posted the...
Jan 12, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Security is a big concern for many users and while most typically think of that as meaning you protect your PC from malware, there are also easy ways to protect your conversations as well. Skype is now testing out a new feature called Private Conversations that...
Jan 11, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
The WiFi Alliance has announced the new wireless standard, WPA3, at CES in Las Vegas. The new family of WiFi security technologies comes shortly after WPA2, which every wireless device in the world today uses, was found to be vulnerable to the KRACK exploit. WPA3 will...
Jan 10, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Amazon’s Alexa AI tech is set to be expanded – with a deal in the pipeline for advertising to be pumped direct to users’ devices. According to CNBC, the retail giant has been negotiating with a range of major companies, such as Clorox and Procter...
Jan 9, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Chrome is now the most popular browser across all devices, thanks to Android’s popularity and the rise of Chrome on Windows PCs and Mac computers. As Google continues to dominate our access to the web, information through its search engine, and services like Gmail or...
Jan 8, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
The personal data of more than one billion Indians – including thumb prints and retina scans – can be bought online for less than £6, according to an investigation by Indian newspaper Tribune. The data is stored in what may be the world’s largest...
