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Microsoft Teams is seeing massive user growth as remote work becomes the norm amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The chat, collaboration and video conferencing app saw its daily active user count rise more than 37 percent over the past week, from 32 million to 44 million users around the world. During that time, Microsoft also signed up six additional large business customers with ...

The division is led by Mark Alexander, CEO, with new senior leadership appointments for Dr. Fiona Lodge as Chief Product and Strategy Officer, and Jean Turgeon as Chief Technology and Information Officer   London, UK – 18 March 2020 - NTT Ltd., a world-leading global technology services provider, today announced the launch of its new Cloud Communications division, its center...

Prudential, the UK’s largest listed insurer, is turning to artificial intelligence to protect its computer networks in the US, Asia and Africa from malware hackers and internal threats Financial services group Prudential is setting up security operations centres in Asia and the US that will allow it to monitor potential security threats on more than 100,000 devices on its ne...

Cyber gangsters have attacked the computer systems of a medical research company on standby to carry out trials of a possible future vaccine for the Covid-19 coronavirus. The Maze ransomware group attacked the computer systems of Hammersmith Medicines Research (HMR), publishing personal details of thousands of former patients after the company declined to pay a ransom. The c...

London-based Finastra, the world’s third-largest financial services software provider, has been hacked. The fintech giant told customers that affected servers “both in the USA and elsewhere” had been disconnected from the internet while it contains the breach. In a short statement, the company initially described noticing “potentially anomalous activity”, updating this late ...

With COVID-19 restricting offices and workspace to homes and impacting the cybersecurity sector at a massive scale, the world’s largest cybersecurity certification body, EC-Council, announced that it will offer an array of its certification programs and courseware free for students, instructors, partners, and the information security community. The certification body stresse...

Crossword Cybersecurity is a professional services firm that focuses on the development and commercialisation of research-based cyber-security software, and cyber-security consulting. The group’s specialist cyber security product development and software engineering teams work with its university partners to develop the research concept into a fully-fledged commercial produc...

Elite hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization earlier this month, sources told Reuters, part of what a senior agency official said was a more than two-fold increase in cyberattacks. WHO Chief Information Security Officer Flavio Aggio said the identity of the hackers was unclear and the effort was unsuccessful. But he warned that hacking attempts against the...

NHS Trusts have been granted a six-month delay to completing crucial cyber security resilience checks while resources are rechanneled into handling the coronavirus outbreak. The health service's recently established digital transformation body NHSX has given organisations a reprieve to complete their annual cyber security checklists so it doesn’t interfere with the healthcar...

With the majority of office workers in the UK now being asked to work from home we wanted to share some tips that will help make life working from home a bit easier. Make sure you have a good working environment - try and create a suitable working environment where you can sit up properly and clear of clutter/distractions. Remain healthy - Keep a healthy diet (water, fruit, ...