Here you will find all the articles with the tag: corona virus.
The Ryuk-ransomware continues to focus on hospitals during the corona virus crisis. Even a number of cyber criminals previously called for the situation not to be abused, but this is not being met by everyone. The Ryuk-ransomware was used last month for attacks on 10 health organisations. Ryuk w... Read more
4 years ago
Compatibility between two communications services provided by Microsoft itself, namely Skype and Teams, was already announced at the beginning of March this year. Users should become able to chat with users of the other service. In the future, there should also be the possibility of a competing ser... Read more
4 years ago
According to researchers from various cyber firms, people who work from home because of the corona virus are much more often the target of phishing campaigns. According to Barracuda Networks, the number of reported phishing emails has increased by almost seven hundred percent in one month. At th... Read more
4 years ago
Telecom collective 3GPP has announced that two essential releases for the 5G standard will be postponed. The releases have been delayed due to the corona virus outbreak. It is not clear whether this will also delay the rollout of 5G. Current 5G networks continue to operate largely on the standar... Read more
4 years ago
In an interview with CNBC, Microsoft top executive Sayta Nadella discussed the problems Microsoft Teams had experienced in recent weeks. Due to the coronavirus, many more people are working from home and the app is used to hold far more online meetings than usual. This caused problems during the fi... Read more
4 years ago
The intended acquisition of HP by Xerox was paused by the latter. However, the group does offer HP shareholders a high fee for handing over shares. In times of crisis due to the corona virus, HP calls on its shareholders to disregard the offer. While HP has declined all of Xerox's offers, Xerox ... Read more
4 years ago
Not only is the number of phishing campaigns increasing, now that many people worldwide are working from home because of the corona virus, but there has also been an increase in attacks by hackers who want to get malware onto a system by other means. The same goes for pointing arrows at routers in ... Read more
4 years ago
Instead of security updates and cumulative secondary updates, from May 2020 Windows 10 users will receive only the most critical security updates for their OS. Microsoft announces this in a statement. The cumulative updates, also known as C and D updates, will be rolled out every month in the th... Read more
4 years ago
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute are using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict how the coronavirus will spread among the population. By having AI predict where a new outbreak of the virus is likely to occur, the scientists hope that the spread in an area can be contained quickly. The sci... Read more
4 years ago
The World Health Organization (WHO) was attacked by elite hackers earlier this month. Reuters reports this based on sources within the organisation. According to the source, there was a large increase in attacks on WHO systems in a short period of time. According to the head of security at the W... Read more
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