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Major services out this morning

IT outage live updates: Planes grounded as mass worldwide issue hits airlines, media and banks American Airlines says none of its flights are taking off, due to an issue with Crowdstrike cybersecurity software - Microsoft says it is taking "mitigation action".

Change is coming ...

Microsoft announces AI key on Windows 11 PCs The new keyboard will introduce a Copilot key which accesses AI capabilities on Windows 11.

Have an old Google account you've not used in a while?

Inactive Google accounts to be deleted from Friday The tech giant will start deleting accounts that are not being used.

The functions of Copilot include:

Summarising the key discussion points of a conversation held on meeting software, Teams, and providing recaps for someone who joins late or misses the whole event
Creating PowerPoint presentations, including images, from prompts
Drafting emails
Analysing long email threads and documents
Creating summaries and graphs of data on Excel spreadsheets.

However, the firm admitted Copilot would sometimes make mistakes.

Microsoft brings ChatGPT-style tech to Office365 The tech giant reveals how AI will be embedded into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams.

Outlook for Mac now free, Microsoft 365 subscription not needed Microsoft says its Outlook for Mac email and calendar client is now available for free, and it will no longer require an Office license or a Microsoft 365 subscription to be used.

We're aware of outages with Microsoft 365 services this morning, particularly Exchange online and SharePoint services. Microsoft have now begun investigation into these issues

Microsoft shares workaround for unresponsive Windows Start Menu Microsoft has confirmed an issue causing the Windows Start menu to become unresponsive and some applications to no longer launch.

Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web Google announced on Friday that it's adding end-to-end encryption to Gmail on the web, allowing enrolled Google Workspace users to send and receive encrypted emails within their domain and outside their domain. 

The rollout will initially be trialled at the 12th-Century Rievaulx Abbey in North York Moors National Park, Wasdale Head in the Lake District and within Snowdonia National Park.

Elon Musk's Starlink to help strengthen internet in remote UK places World’s richest man’s company is involved in a trial to get isolated areas of the UK connected to the internet.

Urgent update time!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-62602909

Hackers may have exploited security flaws - Apple Users of some models of iPhone, iPad and Mac are being urged to run "important" security update.

3 - 4 weeks recovery time seems a very long time given the DRP's in place with most major service providers these days!! 🤔

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-62506039

NHS IT supplier held to ransom by hackers Its IT provider says it may take three or four weeks to fully recover from the cyber-attack.

🚨 Scammers are sending text messages appearing to be from Ofgem offering rebates.

THIS IS A SCAM.

The link could harvest your personal data so be

Read more on how to avoid scams and what to do if you are affected ⬇️
http://ow.ly/8XWS50JlTAV

We have been made aware of a scam in which scammers are claiming they are from the DWP and are asking for your bank details. This is a scam!

NEVER send your bank details over text.

… and most people still think Cyber Security is only about protecting yourself from the bad guys!

Another lesson learned!

Girl, nine, spent £500 on Roblox after memorising mum's PayPal password 2We had lots of tears and lots of apologising to which I replied 'that's not going to pay the credit card bill though is it Elizabeth!'"

Good night, and good riddance! 👋

Internet Explorer, star of Windows, dies at 26 IE mode will live on for businesses.

Microsoft’s new ‘One Outlook’ email client for Windows is starting to leak out The web app is taking over Microsoft’s email clients.

Have you received an email out of the blue from Amazon or Ebay and you are unsure if its legitimate?

Remember, you can check and verify in your Amazon or Ebay official accounts messaging tabs.

Please find links below for further information.



https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G4YFYCCNUSENA23B

https://pages.ebay.co.uk/safetycentre/help.html

The example below was received recently and was a scam.

Researchers have discovered several vulnerabilities affecting at least 150 multi-function (print, scan, fax) printers made by Hewlett Packard.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/8-year-old-hp-printer-vulnerability-affects-150-printer-models/?fbclid=IwAR1XklNerM0lqP3Sgm7rDkRo5ir1ONrWlXMgBGc4Fnzpzn8DCvPR7xQVtU0

8-year-old HP printer vulnerability affects 150 printer models Researchers have discovered several vulnerabilities affecting at least 150 multi-function (print, scan, fax) printers made by Hewlett Packard.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59348921

WhatsApp privacy policy tweaked in Europe after record fine WhatsApp is rewriting policies to comply with regulator demands after being issued an enormous fine.

Google: YouTubers’ accounts hijacked with cookie-stealing malware Google says YouTube creators have been targeted with password-stealing malware in phishing attacks coordinated by financially motivated threat actors since at least late 2019.

You couldn’t make it up …. 😒

Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink Canon USA is being sued for not allowing owners of certain printers to use the scanner of faxing functions if they run out of ink.

At a client site today replacing some of their rather old Fujitsu desktops with new Dell OptiPlex 3080's.

Sizing at around 18cm x 18cm (7" x 7"), these little gems pack a decent punch for office based machines and take up next to no desk space at all - unlike the outgoing machines!

We've rolled out quite a few of these over the last couple of months and feedback has been nothing but positive.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-releases-the-first-official-windows-11-isos/

Microsoft releases the first official Windows 11 ISOs Microsoft has finally released the first official ISOs for Windows 11, allowing users to perform clean installs of the new operating system.

That didn’t take long!! Less than 48 hrs in fact. 🙄

Microsoft halts Windows 365 trials after running out of servers Microsoft has suspended free trials of their newly launched Windows 365 Cloud PC service after running out of available servers.