What’s the new Office threat? The Office exploit takes advantage of Microsoft’s Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), a protocol that sends messages and data between applications. For example, DDE can be used to automatically update a table in a Word document with data collected in an Excel spreadsheet. The problem with this is hackers can create […]
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What is KRACK? Simply put, KRACK, short for ‘key reinstallation attack,’ allows hackers to bypass WPA2 — a security protocol used by routers and devices to encrypt activity — and intercepts sensitive data passing between the mobile device and the wireless router, including login details, credit card numbers, private emails, and photos. In extreme cases,
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are extremely useful in helping us sift through massive amounts of information, and networking behemoth Cisco recently announced that they will be incorporating these technologies with two of their services. Business Critical Services This suite of services uses AI-powered automation, compliance, security, and machine learning analytics tools to reduce
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Lack of storage space is something we all have to deal with at some point. You’ll be forced to delete some seemingly unnecessary files, only to find out that you actually needed them later. What would you do? Dropbox offers a quick fix with its new Professional plan. Read on to learn more. Stop worrying
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Never give guests access to your primary Wi-Fi While giving guests password to your company’s main Wi-Fi might be the easiest way to get them connected, you should avoid this at all costs. Anyone with a little technical know-how can potentially access everything on your company network, including confidential data. Not to mention, guests’ devices
Mobile device security is paramount in today’s unpredictable IT landscape. There are plenty of ways to be sure your employees are accessing data safely away from the office, but there is one solution we recommend for the best results: combining mobile security efforts with virtualization technology. Mobile device management and virtualization Simply put, mobile device
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Upgrades for Teams To phase out Skype for Business, Teams will gradually acquire communications features such as the ability to call traditional landlines and phone numbers, call routing, speech-to-text, voicemail, and HD video conferencing. On the back-end, Microsoft will beef up their servers and smooth out some glitches to ensure crisp and clear communications between
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As a convenient cloud solution, Office 365 boasts nearly 30 million users. But that’s nothing compared to licensed versions of Microsoft’s productivity suite, which have more than one billion users. Office 2019 was announced in September and it will mean big changes for businesses that want simpler versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and more. Microsoft
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The problem The issue isn’t necessarily that NIST advised people to create passwords that are easy to crack, but it did steer people into creating lazy passwords, using capitalization, special characters, and numbers that are easy to predict, like “P@ssW0rd1.” This may seem secure, but in reality, these strings of characters and numbers could easily
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