It was announced yesterday that the inventor and computer pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair died at his home in London after a long illness. Although according to his daughter he was still inventing last week. Sir Clive Sinclair: Computing pioneer dies aged 81 – BBC News If you follow the link to the article above you […]
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Get this done now! – iPhone Vulnerability NO I mean really get this done now! There has been talk about a “zero-click” vulnerability in iOS for a while on tech channels and now Apple has a patch. I will say more after you go to your iPhone/iPad/iPod and do this: Settings – General – Software
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Recently we have been producing articles telling you about the benefits of the tools in our 365R package – but sometimes we forget that at the heart of the system is Microsoft 365 for Business. We wrap some great security and compliance tools around Microsoft’s software and add our experienced IT support staff to give
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Recently our blogs have been focusing on showcasing the great services we supply at Octagon and have bundled into our 365R services – see this web site Octagon’s 365R if you want to read more about that. I have a memo here that says I should be writing about anti-virus software, but sometimes being the boss has
I am sorry – once you look at the risk cyber threats pose to your business, then cheap does not seem a good idea. What you need are solutions that are proportional to your particular circumstances and risk and are also good value for the money you spend on them. Somewhere here, as you would
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Forget the film – the original comic book, by Alan Moore (probably England’s greatest comic book writer) is one of my favourite comics. So with that not so subtle segway done what I want to talk about today is the third part of the triple “A”s of security. For good security you must authenticate (A
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It seems that a day does not go by without a news story of an organisation getting infected by ransomware and losing control of their information and business. Gang behind huge cyber-attack demands $70m in Bitcoin – BBC News TechLinked – Ransomware – probably the largest attack yet The businesses that make the news are
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Back in December 2020 I wrote a blog where I asked “Where is my flying car” and then a few days later I wrote a sequel as there was an announcement of a flying car for sale. Here are the links to those articles: Where’s my flying car? – Octagon Technology Where’s my flying car? The Sequel – Octagon
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I have had an advert for WhatsAPP fed to me a number of times this week by Facebook on YouTube. This blog is how these adverts are misleading the public. I am going to make an assumption here that Facebook have technical people probably as capable as I am and that someone who understands how things plug in gets a look in before “Marketing” (here
