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Cybersecurity News trending on Google
1) According to a survey, Small and Medium Scale Businesses (SMBs) in the UK are being subjected to over 10,000 cyberattacks per day which could cost them £4.5 billion on an annual note. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) survey which included SMBs from Scotland says that over 1 million businesses operating across the UK […]
US Tech Giants follows the new standard to allow users to access health data with ease
Technology giants like Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have joined hands to provide online consumers easier access to their medical records by joining a new data model at a White House Blue Button Developers Conference recently. CARIN Blue Button API is the data model which offers a specific standard to share health data with ease […]
Russia, Iran, North Korea target Microsoft customers with Cyber Attacks
Microsoft has released an official statement yesterday saying that it has notified more than 10,000 of its customers that they were being targeted by cyberattacks from hackers hailing from Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Tom Burt, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft has confirmed the news in a statement released yesterday and said that 85% […]
Amazon and Microsoft battle it out over a US Military Cloud
Tech Giants Amazon and Microsoft are said to be battling for an opportunity to bag a $10 billion project with regards to a US Military Cloud building architecture. Formally called as Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure or shortly called as JEDI, this military intelligence cloud project is said to help the law enforcement in processing vast […]
Microsoft bans employees from using these apps for Security reasons
Microsoft has already banned the use of rival apps and services from Google and Amazon. Now it seems to have extended the list by adding a few early this month. According to a report being circulated internally by Microsoft, the Redmond giant has banned the use of apps such as the free version of slack […]
Microsoft encourages hacking its cloud services with ‘Safe Harbor’
American tech giant Microsoft Corporation has released a press statement yesterday encouraging hackers to hack into its Azure cloud. Technically speaking, the company wants to encourage security hackers to find vulnerabilities in its cloud services platform as a part of the ‘Safe Harbor’ initiative. “From the past few years, white hat hackers have been regularly […]
Microsoft to put an end to Password change
As the change of passwords on a regular note could actually put online users into risk, tech giants like Microsoft are thinking to put an end to such usage. The American software giant has, in fact, started the initiative by secretly removing ‘password expiration’ theory where old passwords are no longer eligible for reuse after […]
How to prevent Windows 10 from invading your privacy
We all know that the release of Windows 10 Operating System wasn’t received well by users of Microsoft and the main reason for such reaction was due to the fact that it invades the user’s privacy. For this reason, many in the technology world postponed its use and upgrade for many years. Now, to those […]
China to ditch Microsoft Windows and products to retaliate Huawei ban in the US
As the trade war between the United States and China is soaring day by day, Beijing is planning to ban Microsoft Windows and related products completely in its country from September this year. The move came when Chinese intelligence has learned that United States military could be spying on the military network of President Xi […]
Cyber Threat alert for those using Internet Explorer
A security researcher named John Page has discovered a flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser which is reported to allow hackers to sneak into the victim files even if they are not using it. John said that the said browser of Microsoft is vulnerable to XML External Entity Attack if in case a user […]
