Welcome to this week’s 920 Weekly Roundup! Let’s see what’s been in the news this week..
Spark believes that they have taken over Vodafone for the top spot in the mobile market. According to Vodafone’s merger documents with Sky TV, Vodafone does have more mobile customers than Spark, but Spark have stated that their revenue is higher. Excluding wholesale customers, Vodafone will bring in $1.065 billion in mobile revenue in the year to June 30. Spark’s results won’t be released until August but are expecting their revenue to exceed $1.1 billion. Over the past few years, Spark has been able to rapidly close the gap to Vodafone in regards to their number of mobile customers.
If you’ve unwillingly had Windows 10 automatically installed on your PC, here are two ways to get rid of it once you’ve had it for 30 days. The first option is a “clean install” where you can reinstall the Windows 7 operating system if you still have the disk. However, this will wipe out everything on your PC’s hard disk so you will need to back all your data up first. You will also have to reinstall your programs and software drivers added since buying the PC and allow Windows 7 to update itself after the instillation. The second option is called a “factory reset”. Not all PC’s offer this function but if you do it’ll return your PC to how it was the day you bought it. Which will mean you’ll have to complete the same recovery instructions as in option one.
Hybrid/IT clouds are often dismissed as disruptive. However this article shows how the hybrid/IT cloud is not the problem but rather it is the poor network execution, security protocols, and management. Below are 17 hybrid cloud security threats you should avoid, with the article giving detail on how to fix these threats.
- Lack of encryption
- Inadequate Security Risk Assessment
- Poor compliance
- Weak Security Management
- Poor Data Redundancy
- Failure to Authenticate and Identify
- Unprotected APIs
- Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attacks
- Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
- Poor IP protection
- Lack of Data Ownership
- Failure to Communicate with Cloud Provider
- Poorly Defined SLAs
- Data Leakage
- Poorly-Defined Management Strategies
- Badly constructed cross-platform tools
- Disgruntled or Malicious Employees
Enjoy the weekend!
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