Returning to the office? You could be bringing back cyber threats
The return of office work could bring about a perfect storm of cyber security dangers, some experts have warned. With many of Britain's workers gearing up to head back to the office, businesses have been urged to make sure their defences are up to scratch, to combat...
Calls made for governments to ban ransomware payments
Should governments make it illegal to pay ransomware demands? That's the question being asked on a global scale, following a series of high-profile hacks that have impacted businesses, governments and organisations alike. There are thought to be over a dozen highly...
Why that public WiFi network isn’t as safe as you might think
The benefits of connecting to public WiFi hotspots could be significantly outweighed by the inherent dangers, if they've not been sufficiently protected. This is a warning sounded by IT security firm Akita, which has urged anyone connecting to public WiFi to proceed...
Home workers call for the ‘right to disconnect’
UK businesses have been urged to follow Ireland's lead, and give staff members the 'right to disconnect'. The marked increase in home working that has come about as a result of the coronavirus pandemic has improved the work-life balance for countless Brits. However,...
5 top tips to make you a MS Word wizard
Microsoft Word has been part of the enterprise world for long enough for most of us to feel comfortable using it. However, there’s a whole world beyond the basics you can see from the ‘Home’ tab. Here are five tools you can use to turn your word processing from good...
Dynamic View headed for MS Teams
Microsoft has rolled out Dynamic View to Teams – giving both presenters and participants an improved meeting experience. Dynamic View shows specific users alongside the slides being presented, so that participants have a more real-world feel to their virtual meetings....
Facebook’s response to data leaks… gets leaked
Facebook has tried to downplay a data leak that saw information from 533 million people in 106 countries published on a hacking forum. The huge swathe of data was thought to have been ‘scraped’ from Facebook (where information is pulled from personal profiles en...
A beginner’s guide to Excel Fuzzy Lookup
If you’ve ever pulled data into Excel from multiple sources, you’ll probably have had to deal with lots of minor discrepancies. It could be differences in how information is collated, varying ways of presenting the data, or simple spelling errors – but all of this can...
Cortana pulled from mobile
Microsoft has retired Cortana for mobile users, moving instead towards productivity assistance for Windows 10, Outlook and Teams. Cortana was first launched back in 2014 as a direct competitor to Apple’s Siri. Its name was taken from the AI guide in the Halo game...
Cybercriminals enlist customers to apply ransom pressure
Hackers have found a new way to put pressure on businesses that have been subject to a data breach – enlisting their own customers to call for a ransom to be paid. Tech news site Bleeping Computer discovered that one particular ransomware gang, Clop, has sent emails...