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Apple made a big splash with its CarPlay system, which integrates app features from your iPhone with your vehicle’s infotainment system, but it’s not the only one who can play that game. Microsoft isn’t far behind with automotive integration features that bring a more business-forward perspective to your in-car experience. Microsoft doesn’t offer its own phone (sorry, Windows phone holdouts), so the Redmond, WA company designed automotive features to aid productivity, rather than shuffle your...

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The plethora of data breach headlines have been reserved for multi-million pound organisations in recent months, but digital queasiness has established itself in a more personal and political manner as former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has seen the leak of his personal emails spreading like wildfire, says Dave Worrall, CTO at Secure Cloudlink.  Worrall comments: “As politicians across the world race to delete their entire personal email history, in fear of their own...

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We are only a few moments away from September Patch Tuesday, so here are a few pointers to watch out for, helping you minimise the impact and tune your process, and our forecast on what we think you should expect this month. On the Horizon Based on the sheer volume of questions I’ve had about this I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the servicing changes Microsoft plans to implement in...

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Being the largest publicly held company in the world and upholding the corporate motto “don’t be evil” has to be a challenge. Google has raised plenty of eyebrows with its recent shopping spree for robotics companies, ownership of public user browsing data, and seeming desire to become the world’s single omnipotent internet provider. However, Google aims to be transparent with the public by sharing its data. One of the most visible ways Google does this...

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Cybercrime can and probably will be used as a tool to compromise the financial infrastructure of entire countries, says cyber-security specialist Phil Cracknell in collaboration with Hiscox, the business insurers. From business protection to cyber wars, Phil gave Hiscox eight points about the future of hacking and how we’re all more at risk than we realise: It’s time to look at the bigger picture with cyber security “When it comes to what’s motivating hackers, it’s...

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Following the explosion in virtual machines driving automation, DevOps practices have skyrocketed over the last few years as a logical byproduct. Organizations across all industries have been working to incorporate agility through the entire lifecycle of software development and operations. And it’s not difficult to understand why — when implemented properly, DevOps can enable a kind of innovation nirvana. By orchestrating communication between cross-functional teams, companies can add speed and agility to critical processes, which...

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The majority of the UK’s SMEs are not prioritising better online security in the next 12 months, despite the impending impact of the EU’s new data protection legislation, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was adopted in April 2016 and takes effect within two years. Notwithstanding the EU referendum result, the Information Commissioner’s Office has confirmed that, ‘if the UK wants to trade with the single market on equal terms we would have to prove...

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ThreatConnect reassesses what could happen next in light of recent public statements by Guccifer 2.0.  We described the current state of the Guccifer 2.0 purported disclosures as leaking documents of minimal intelligence value for possible political points in the U.S. and reinforcing Kremlin themes to a Russian audience about the failings of democracy and the West. Here, we outline a couple of different trajectories for the Guccifer 2.0 persona and identify some of the indicators that...

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DDoS Attacks show no sign of slowing down Attack Activity Increases 111 Percent Year-Over-Year Despite increased security protections, there is a rise in the number, frequency and complexity of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. In fact, no industry has been spared, and as these attacks become more sophisticated, we have seen an increasing number of organisations struggling to cope with the aftermath and negative impact these attacks can have to their revenue and corporate...

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Professional social networking site LinkedIn has proven to be a valuable business tool, bringing together professionals from all over the world. But few corporations grasp the security risks that the use of LinkedIn represents. The main problem is not with the LinkedIn website’s own digital security but with a widespread corporate ignorance of the way the organised criminal gangs (OCGs) who make billions, sometimes tens of billions of dollars, from cyber crime work. The hackers...

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