Connections Blog
Smart Devices and Smart Security
The modern world is increasingly smart. Smart devices are everywhere - your home, your work, your travel; everything is connected, and life is more manageable and smoother as a...
Contact Forms Deliver New Form of Malicious Emails
Microsoft’s threat analysts have released extensive guidance and warnings about recently discovered malicious activity deriving from online content forms. Microsoft’s analysts have...
How Remote Work Has Changed The (IT) World
Remote and flexible working has been around for a while, but the last year has seen it burst into the mainstream in grand style. The COVID-19 pandemic has acted as a catalyst for remote...
Ten Things to Focus On for a Successful Backup
March 31 is World Backup Day and a reasonable time to explore the importance of data backup. Data backup is one of the most fundamental aspects of cybersecurity, good digital hygiene, and...
Power Automate Desktop now available free of charge
Microsoft has made its Power Automate Desktop tool available to all Windows 10 users for free as of March 2021. This change in policy was announced at the Microsoft Ignite virtual...
Last Orders at the Digital Bar
Hackers hit Molson Coors with cyberattack The huge multinational brewing company behind Coors, Miller, Staropramen, and Molson Canadian was hit by a cyberattack last week that stopped its...
Email phishing is now the top ransomware attack vector
Ransomware attacks throughout 2020 were devastating and seemed to indicate that this form of cyberattack was on a continued upward trajectory. Ryuk, for example, extracted an enormous $34...
Small is Beautiful: How reducing your attack surface can prevent cyberattacks before they happen
Back in the good old days, cybersecurity used to be simple. Fine, never ‘simple’, but certainly less overwhelming than it is today. Networks and environments had vulnerabilities, for sure,...
How to see everyone in a Microsoft Teams meeting
Our five tips will keep help you stay secure and protected while working from home. We cover the best practices and tips to help you prepare for everything from phishing attacks to remote vulnerabilities.
Are you a Spotify user?
Over 300,000 thousand Spotify users may have had their data exposed and experienced disruption to their account during a credential stuffing attack in July this year. Up to 350,000...
Cybersecurity During the Holidays
As we start to gear up for the holidays after a tough year, it would be nice to stop worrying about things like cybersecurity for a while. However it isn’t just Santa and his elves who are...
Automation, automation and more automation
RPA, machine learning, AI and more tools to automate your day While not quite at Matrix or Terminator levels yet, artificial intelligence (AI) and automated processes are...