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Avast launched Avast Business Small Office Protection, a solution for small businesses that provides robust, real-time cyber protection that's easy to install and cost-effective. Small Office Protection by Avast Business is an all-in-one security solution for small businesses that protects all types of devices, protecting a maximum of 10 separate devices on any platform.

The UK Cabinet Office is to take control of government data from the Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport. "A written statement from Prime Minister Boris Johnson under the heading"Machinery of Government", dated 22 July, reads: "Responsibility for government use of data has transferred from the Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport to the Cabinet Office.

Decades old, these protocol versions are considered obsolete, especially since the newer, safer TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 have been available for years. In October 2018, Microsoft confirmed plans to remove support for the older protocols from its browsers, and also moved to deprecate TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for the Office 365 service.

Cloudflare, the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, announced that Tokyo, Japan, is the home of its newest Asia-Pacific office. Cloudflare first invested in Japan nearly a decade ago, expanding its network into Tokyo in 2010, just months after launching.

Computer misuse crimes across England and Wales have declined over the past year - with credential theft attacks remaining more or less flat in the pre-COVID reporting period. The Crime Survey of England and Wales recorded a total of 876,000 incidents of computer misuse affecting 743,000 adults across the UK over the past year, a figure that was down by 9 per cent on 2019's total of 966,000 incidents.

Full Office 365 security compliance is one of those things most enterprises will have on the to-do list somewhere, but it's surprising how few actually get around to it. It's more surprising still when considering Office 365 is used by a huge number of companies across the world in some fashion, if only for the basics of email and file storage.

Microsoft has taken legal action to seize web domains being used to launch coronavirus-themed phishing attacks. "Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit first observed these criminals in December 2019, when they deployed a sophisticated, new phishing scheme designed to compromise Microsoft customer accounts," said the mega-corp in a blog post this week.

Microsoft has seized several domains associated with a massive hacking campaign, which has targeted Office 365 accounts with phishing and business email compromise emails. A recent court order issued by U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia allowed the tech company to disable the domains associated with the email attacks and disband the campaign: "Our civil case has resulted in a court order allowing Microsoft to seize control of key domains in the criminals' infrastructure so that it can no longer be used to execute cyberattacks," according to Tom Burt, corporate vice president, Customer Security and Trust, in a Tuesday post.

Segra, one of the largest fiber infrastructure network companies in the Eastern U.S., announced the launch of a new enterprise-grade remote office service - Segra's Remote Office LAN. Rapidly changing workforce dynamics have led to increased reliance on remote workers and third-party networks by both employers and employees, leaving corporate infrastructure connectivity in the hands of the public internet. Segra's Remote Office LAN enables an in-office, enterprise-grade experience for remote workers, removing the need for VPNs and split tunneling which often leave cloud traffic unsecured and unreliable.

D-Link announced its new PoE surveillance switch series, which includes the 9-Port PoE Unmanaged Surveillance Switch and the 18-Port PoE Unmanaged Surveillance Switch. Supporting long range PoE delivery, DSS-100E switches are a cost-effective solution that provide a versatile and reliable surveillance network.