November 2020

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Smart hoovers and doorbells left home alone with Amazon AWS infrastructure outage

AWS, which boasts the largest global infrastructure of any cloud provider, had a prolonged service interruption in its US-EAST-1 Region on Wednesday 25th November, taking several hours to resolve. As a result, significant internet disruption was experienced. Unsurprisingly, when a company like AWS has a problem, the internet has a problem. The outage disrupted many …

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Keep supported and secure through the festive period – Video

Keep your business supported and secure through the festive period, extending your internal IT teams with a 24×7 IT Help Desk and Security Operations Centre. If your organisation is relying on a small IT team, it is likely they are stretched too thin. This leads to compromised security, poor technology support, and struggling service satisfaction. …

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Smart doorbells not so smart, security research discovers just how insecure top devices are

Our homes are becoming increasingly full of gadgets, from autonomous hoovers, to smart speakers, light bulbs, alarm clocks and doorbells. Our thirst for automation in the search of convenience has never been stronger. For all the positive benefits that come from these “Internet of Things (IOT)” devices, there is a darker side. The more we …

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UK-wide IT system outage for the Post Office stops business earlier this month

The core IT system which is the backbone of the UK Post Office branches unexplainably went offline earlier this month, on November 5th. The system known as Horizon is the central retail and accounting system for the Post Office. Embarrassingly, Post Office branches across the UK became unable to do business. Post Office workers and …

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“Defend Today, Secure Tomorrow” replies the Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure to Donald Trump

Succinct and to the point, was the statement that Chris Krebs responded to Donald Trump on Twitter, post Trump firing the Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure for the Department of Homeland Security in the US. In typical Trump style, the firing was announced over Twitter, coming after the statement from the director that there was …

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Street Fighter in combat against ransomware attack that compromises Capcom data

The Japanese developer, Capcom, who is most well known for making top rated video games including Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Dead Rising and Monster Hunter, has announced it has been compromised by a ransomware attack. Initial reports from the company highlighted an attack earlier in the month, beginning on November 2nd. However in a statement …

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Isentia, the Australian media communications giant, reports significant ransomware attack

Isentia, with its headquarters based in Sydney, has reported a significant ransomware attack on its main intelligence and insights service, Mediaportal. Mediaportal is a SAAS service used by both private and public sector customers. Mediaportal is Isentia’s flagship communications platform that provides users with a cloud-based news management system as it happens. The company has informed investors the …

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Fundamentals First build out a Security Operations Centre (SOC), helping small, medium and large organisations

Fundamentals First has built on their ISO27001 and ISO9001 Virtual Network Operations Center (NOC), and offers a Security Operations Centre (SOC), delivering advanced, next generation managed threat detection and incident response services. With increased sophistication of cyber attacks and ever increasing regulations, organisations can no longer get away with doing the bare minimum. As business …

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Consultancy accelerates IT Service Maturity through strategic deliveries

A technology based Managed Service Provider (MSP) had experienced rapid growth across its UK and US operations over a period of 2 years. To cope with the expanding client base and ever-increasing demand on the service teams, the client recognised the need for rapid improvements across the operational functions, including a fundamental shift from 9-5 …

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