Nov 30, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
In the turn of the century 18 years ago, people have embraced Web 2.0, a new dynamic web replacing the static HTML-only Web 1.0 fathered by Tim Berners Lee in the 1990’s. Web 2.0 as a successor hosted content that can never be imagined way back year 2000, streaming...
Nov 29, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has opened up its serverless language support, allowing “builders” to bring their own language to AWS Lambda. Making the announcement at AWS re:Invent on Wednesday, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said the offering comes in response to...
Nov 28, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft briefly took over Apple as the most valuable company in the United States. The company’s shares rose by 2.1% on Monday, with Apple’s shares falling by 0.7%. Apple, which was valued at $1 trillion just back in August, has faced a continued decline in its...
Nov 27, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Phishing is fast becoming malware’s favourite vector, proving to be incredibly pervasive with 76 percent of businesses having reported to being a victim of a phishing attack in the last year. The scams are all-encompassing. Numerous instances, like the case of the...
Nov 26, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
How businesses are building firewalls is changing. We’re seeing a continued trend toward smaller firewall boundaries and micro-segmentation to support zero-trust strategies, although it can be very piecemeal. As businesses think less about centralized firewalls, and...
Nov 23, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
86 percent of IT and security decision makers across the globe believe their organisation needs to improve its awareness of IoT threats, according to Trend Micro. This significant lack of knowledge accompanies rising threat levels and security challenges related to...
Nov 22, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Two months after Amazon announced that Skype video calling would become available on its Echo Show smart display, Microsoft has brought Skype calling—audio and video—to the Alexa platform. “Use Alexa to call friends and family on Skype or call mobiles and landlines in...
Nov 21, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Two men who admitted their part in the October 2015 data breach of internet service provider (ISP) TalkTalk have been jailed. Matthew Hanley of Tamworth pleaded guilty to offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 in April 2017 for his role in the attack and received...
Nov 20, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
2018 has seen a major divergence in the operation of ransomware: targeted versus ransomware as a service (RaaS). Two particular malware families have dominated each branch: SamSam (targeted) and GandCrab (RaaS). Targeted seeks high ransoms from relatively few victims,...
Nov 19, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Security researchers claim over 100,000 sites potentially affected, with the vulnerability available for attacks for weeks A privilege escalation flaw in a WordPress GDPR compliance plugin has exposed over 100,000 websites to attack. According to a post on security...
Nov 17, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Japan’s new cyber-security minister has dumbfounded his country by saying he has never used a computer. Yoshitaka Sakurada made the admission to a committee of lawmakers. “Since I was 25 years old and independent I have instructed my staff and secretaries....
Nov 16, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Data can provide information, information can lead to insight and knowledge, and knowledge is power. It’s no wonder, then, that seemingly everybody in this modern, computerised world of ours loves to suck data from everyone and everything. We are getting used to it,...
Nov 15, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Almost as soon as email became widely used, crooks and scammers began using it as a means to defraud people. In today’s world, malicious fake emails continue to be a huge problem for individuals and businesses. Businesses make lucrative targets Losses due to Business...
Nov 14, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
On Monday Amazon launched the Alexa app for Windows 10 PCs via the Microsoft Store. The app allows you to use Alexa as you would on Echo devices like playing music or audiobooks, checking your calendar, creating reminders, controlling smart home devices…etc. It is...
Nov 13, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Google has announced that, starting from Chrome 71, users will be explicitly warned when attempting to visit pages that try to trick them into signing up for mobile-based subscription services. The warning Pages that ask for users’ mobile phone details but show no...
Nov 12, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
DigiCert has executed a transfer of online trust, marked by the stable release of Chrome 70 that signals the end of Google’s Symantec root distrust plan. In the year since acquiring Symantec’s Website Security and PKI businesses, DigiCert has managed a certificate...
Nov 9, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Myth 4: Security is an expense, not a revenue generator Organisations prioritise investment in services that generate revenue, especially when budgets are tight. This can leave cyber security, viewed as an expense, on the back burner, when it should be considered a...
Nov 8, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Myth 3: Our organisation has not been breached before, so we’re still safe. Often, organisations incorrectly assume their security risks remain relatively static, when they don’t have a way to effectively evaluate those risks. Projecting future risks based on...
Nov 7, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Myth 2: There’s no reason to invest in security when organisations with tight security controls still experience security breaches. Some organisations rationalise a small cyber security budget by arguing that investing in security is a losing game. They hear about...
Nov 6, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
Myth 1: Small organisations are low-value targets for hackers. Thinking you’re not a target is one of the biggest mistakes a company can make. According to data collected from more than 2,200 confirmed data breaches, 58 per cent of security event victims were small...
Nov 5, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
A vulnerability (CVE-2018-15454) affecting a slew Cisco security appliances, modules and firewalls is being exploited in the wild to crash and reload the devices, the company has warned on Thursday 1st November. About CVE-2018-15454 The vulnerability is in the Session...
Nov 2, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
At a high level, our goal in security is to manage, mitigate, and minimise risk. In an ideal world, we would enumerate the list of risks and threats we are concerned about and allocate the necessary resources to properly address them. Of course, we don’t live in an...
Nov 1, 2018 | Cloud Consultancy News
The office isn’t what it used to be. Where once workers would commute from their homes and make their way into a cubicle every day, the worker of today is just as likely to pull out a laptop and get their work done without even walking out their front door. The...
