Following on from Friday's (12th May 2017) large scale cyber-attack that effected over 200,000 victims in 150 countries, including the NHS, Europol (the European Union’s law enforcement agency) are warning of escalating threats, with another potential wave hitting on Monday. As always please try to be vigilant when opening emails with attachments or web links [...]
On the 12th May 2017 a new strain of the Ransom.CryptXXX (WannaCry) strain of ransomware began spreading widely impacting a large number of organizations, particularly in Europe. WannaCry is demanding a ransom of $300 to $600 in Bitcoin to be paid by 15th May, or, in the event that deadline is missed, a higher fee [...]
Online banking customers around the world should be on the lookout for scam emails that allow hackers to steal your passwords - and your money. Phishing emails which claim to be from reputable financial organisations contain hidden software - designed to exploit a newly discovered flaw in Microsoft Word. Documents opened with the word processing [...]
Microsoft are currently investigating an issue with the Office 365 service that could be effecting some customers accessing Exchange Online email services. The reported issue from Microsoft: The Outlook client is reporting a status of 'disconnected', 'trying to connect' or 'retrieving data from the server'. Users may be able to connect using Outlook on the web [...]
Following on from our post on the 22nd October, Microsoft have confirmed they intend to increase the British pound costs for on-premises enterprise software by 13% and cloud services such as Office 365, Azure, Hosted Exchange, Hosted SharePoint and Dynamics by 22% for the EU/EFTA region with effect 1st January 2017.
Microsoft will shortly be announcing British pound price changes to harmonise its prices for cloud services within the EU/EFTA region, effective 1st January 2017. From the 1st January, British pound prices for all Microsoft-licenced services including Office 365, Azure, Hosted Exchange, Hosted SharePoint and Dynamics will increase to realign close to euro levels. The increase [...]
BT are having power issues at a number of their data centres which is effecting internet access and web browsing. Unfortunately it's just a case of waiting until BT fix the issue.
I am sure you have been asked at some point to reboot your computer to see if it fixes an issue you may have been having or just to “freshen” things up. Some people choose to select the Restart option in Windows and others Shutdown and then turn the computer back on. Historically whichever option you [...]
A new strain of ransomware has been discovered written in JavaScript called RAA. JavaScript files can often run without the usual security prompts and alerts you often see when running an executable program such as those ending .exe. RAA is one of the encryption based threats that once infected will start encrypting files on your [...]
Microsoft are currently investigating an issue with the Office 365 service that could be effecting some customers accessing Exchange Online email services. They are actively working on a fix and hope to have services fully restored within the next 4 hours. Please note this issue is not effecting all users of Exchange Online and therefore your [...]