Dec 31, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Twitter fetched relevant matching user data upon uploading the contacts through the contacts upload feature on Twitter’s Android app. The researcher took many of the phone numbers of high-profile Twitter users including politicians and officials to a WhatsApp...
Dec 30, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Small businesses often lack the IT staffing resources and expertise that are commonly found in larger organizations. As such, it’s hardly surprising to find that SMB systems–including security systems–may not be configured in quite the way that they should...
Dec 27, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
SplashData released their “Worst passwords of 2019” list, which includes the top 25 most dangerous and most commonly leaked passwords. In an interesting turn of events, password has for the first time in the list’s history been knocked out of the top two spots....
Dec 24, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
It’s that time of year again. Everyone’s busy – at work and at home. That includes cybercriminals, too. In fact, the holiday season is when busy, distracted people tend to be especially vulnerable to phishing attacks. Just one click on a phishing link in a...
Dec 23, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Author: Brian Krebs Last summer, a wave of sextortion emails began flooding inboxes around the world. The spammers behind this scheme claimed they’d hacked your computer and recorded videos of you watching porn, and promised to release the embarrassing footage to all...
Dec 20, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Zoopla has repelled a cyber attack on its Alto property software – with no breach of customer agents’ personal data. It has sent an email to all its Alto customers, explaining the attack – which led to a temporary break in the service – and outlining...
Dec 19, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft officials have said the new Chromium-based Edge browser will be generally available starting January 15, 2020. They also said in early November that the new Edge will be bundled with Windows 10 right after the general availability date, though this will...
Dec 18, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Source: ZDNet / Author: Ed Bott Support for Windows 7 ends in just a few weeks. After Jan. 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer provide free security updates and bug fixes for the venerable operating system to the general public. Those updates will be available,...
Dec 17, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Ransomware, the IT equivalent of kidnapping, is a huge and growing problem. And ransomware attacks, in which bad actors encrypt organizations’ data to bring IT infrastructure and the associated operations to a standstill, are only becoming more widespread. Ransomware...
Dec 16, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Ransomware could be getting even nastier: a security firm is warning over a new trend among some ransomware attackers to not just encrypt data, but steal some of it and use it as leverage to ensure a target pays up. In several recent cases it has been reported that...
Dec 13, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Internet service provider (ISP) and hosting company 1&1 has been fined nearly €10 million ($11m) by Germany’s GDPR watchdog for data protection failures in its call centers. The United Internet subsidiary, which operates across Europe and the Americas, will be...
Dec 12, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
On Tuesday Google announced better password protections in Chrome, gradually rolling out with release M79. Here are the details of how they work. Warnings about compromised passwords Google first introduced password breach warnings as a Password Checkup...
Dec 11, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
For any business, privacy and security are a constant concern. The variety and velocity of attacks seeking to infiltrate corporate systems and steal vital business and customer information seem never-ending. Given the very public repercussions of certain types of...
Dec 10, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Can you believe another year has passed and we’re approaching the last Patch Tuesday of the year? While I get ready to make another online gift purchase with my credit card, I can’t help but reflect on the security activity over the past twelve months. Some of these...
Dec 9, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
At its re:Invent event under way in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services (AWS) dropped the veil on a new tool to help customers to avoid spewing data stored on its S3 (Simple Storage) service to world+dog. “Access Analyzer for S3 is a new feature that monitors your...
Dec 6, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
The web site for UK activewear retailer Sweaty Betty has been hacked to insert malicious code that attempts to steal a customer’s payment information when making purchases. This type of attack is called Magecart and involves a hacker compromising an online site...
Dec 5, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Four Avast and AVG Firefox extensions have been removed from Mozilla Addons Site over concerns of spying of users. “This add-on violates Mozilla’s add-on policy by collecting data without user disclosure or consent,” explained Mozilla. The four extensions developed by...
Dec 4, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Apple stakes a lot of its reputation on how it protects the privacy of its users, as it wants to be the only tech company you trust. But if you send encrypted emails from Apple Mail, there’s currently a way to read some of the text of those emails as if they were...
Dec 3, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
Microsoft has decided to retire the Invoicing app in Office 365 in 2020. If you act quickly, you can preserve your customer data and import it to your replacement application. While the issuing of invoices is a fundamental part of the day-to-day activity of any...
Dec 2, 2019 | Cloud Consultancy News
A confidential report from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in the Netherlands informs that at least 1,800 companies are affected by ransomware across the world. The report names three file-encrypting malware pieces responsible for the infections that use the...
