Oct 31, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
There has been a massive uptick in eCrime cyber activity, a CrowdStrike report reveals. As Gartner states in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platform, “The skills requirement of EDR solutions compounded by the skills gap in most organizations is an...
Oct 30, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Internal user mistakes created the largest percentage of cybersecurity incidents over the past twelve months (80%), followed by exposures caused by poor network system or application security (36%), and external threat actors infiltrating the organization’s network or...
Oct 29, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Nearly three-quarters of consumers (74%) would be likely to participate in a cybersecurity awareness or education program from their financial institution if they offered it. The survey conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Computer Services also found that an...
Oct 28, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
As the year draws to a close, it is time for businesses across all industries and sectors to reflect and prepare for the upcoming new year. With this in mind, FIRST has produced 11 vital steps that organizations should take to improve their incident response strategy....
Oct 25, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
The popularity of Google’s Password Checkup Chrome extension has spurred the company to build the technology into Google Account’s Password Manager and the Chrome browser. Unlike the Chrome extension, these new implementations won’t just point out unsafe...
Oct 24, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Google has announced that it will begin blocking mixed content on https:// pages by default. The reveal was detailed on the Chromium Blog, which stated that the change was being implemented to improve security and privacy. According to the blog, there has been...
Oct 23, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
The verdict is in: quantum computing poses an existential threat to asymmetric cryptography algorithms like RSA and ECC that underpin practically all current Internet security. This comes straight from the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Technical...
Oct 22, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft is planning to block by default 40+ new file types in Outlook on the web to improve the security for their customers. “We took the time to audit the existing blocked file list and update it to better reflect the file types we see as risks today,” the...
Oct 21, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
There’s an alarming scale of risks businesses are up against in a time when email is proving an open door for cybercriminals and malicious actors looking to disrupt, exploit and destroy businesses, according to Wire. The report is developed in collaboration with...
Oct 18, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Cloud data breaches are on the rise, demonstrating time and again the need for a different approach and strategy when it comes to managing and monitoring privileged access to cloud ecosystems. Privilege access management (PAM) should: Be risk-aware and intelligent...
Oct 17, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Scammers are using compromised servers and bogus links to lure LinkedIn users into providing their online credentials and payment card details. The team that examined the scam noted that all the other subdomains they analyzed, redirected to various dating site...
Oct 17, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
The future of 5G lies in the enterprise, states ABI Research. Use cases across different vertical markets, such as industrial automation, cloud gaming, private Long-Term Evolution (LTE), and smart transport systems, will become pervasive, and will unlock new...
Oct 16, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
The M6 Group, France’s largest privately-owned multimedia group, was the victim of ransomware over the weekend, but none of the company’s TV and radio channels suffered any downtime. The incident took place on Saturday morning, according to a message the...
Oct 16, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Victims of the Nemty Ransomware finally have something to be happy about as researchers have released a decryptor that allows them to recover files for free. Since August 2019, the Nemty Ransomware has been utilizing a variety of distribution methods to infect victims...
Oct 15, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple’s macOS Catalina (v10.15), a new major release of its desktop operating system, comes with many functional and security and privacy improvements. The former include a new game subscription service, a feature that extends Mac desktops with iPad as a second...
Oct 14, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Six in every ten businesses have experienced a breach in either in the last three years. At least a third of infosec professionals (36%) whose employers had not recently been a victim of a cyber attack also believe that it is likely that they are currently facing one...
Oct 11, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
macOS Catalina, which came out on Monday, is the newest version of the operating system that runs on the Mac. Catalina brings some significant changes, including the removal of the iTunes app, a new Sidecar feature, an updated Find My app, and more. This is an...
Oct 10, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Businesses and organisations of all sizes have steadily begun to recognize the importance of cybersecurity to their success. As spending and awareness of the importance of cybersecurity increases, so does the demand for intelligence about how best to spend those funds...
Oct 9, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
APT (Advanced persistent threat) actors are targeting the UK and other international organizations in the healthcare sector, educational sector, government, and military. The vulnerabilities exist in several VPN products that allow an attacker to retrieve arbitrary...
Oct 8, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
The apparent ease with which SIM hijacking attacks are being perpetrated to get the targets’ second authentication factor for crucial accounts (online banking, cryptocurrency exchange, online wallet) must have raised some doubts about the security of multi-factor...
Oct 7, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
After a spate of ransomware attacks on government organizations, the FBI has come up with a new stance on paying up ransomware demands. The latest groups to be targeted by high-value ransomware attacks are hospital organizations in Alabama, USA, and Victoria,...
Oct 4, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft OneDrive ( It’s not available in Microsoft OneDrive for Business ) users will find a little something extra in the cloud today, with the announcement of the worldwide availability of the Personal Vault feature for OneDrive. The new feature carves out a...
Oct 3, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
At yesterdays hardware event, Microsoft took the wraps off a number of new Surface PCs and peripherals, as expected. The new devices, which will be ready to ship this month, feature Intel, AMD, and Arm processors. SURFACE PRO X Surface Pro X is an Arm-based Surface...
Oct 2, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Demant, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of hearing aids, expects to incur losses of up to $95 million following what appears to be a ransomware infection that hit the company at the start of the month. This marks one of the most significant losses...
Oct 1, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
The most common domains attackers use to host malware and launch phishing attacks include several subdomains of legitimate sites and Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) such as CloudFlare.net, CloudFront.net (which belongs to Amazon), SharePoint and Amazonaws.com, along...
