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  • Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup – I’m back!

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    I have been on leave for the past two weeks – so if you needed your cyber-news fix you needed to go directly to SmartThinking.Solutions, as I kept the stories up to date there, whilst I was away. Now I am back, I will be posting the weekly digests here again. Since late last year…

  • Zmiana napędza wiedzę, to efekt kuli śnieżnej

    ZMIANA Po grudniowej przerwie i długo oczekiwanym odpoczynku przyszedł styczeń, a wraz z nim nasz powrót do pracy. Nowy rok oznacza nowe cele i nowe wyzwania. Twoje myśli zapewne nieustannie krążą wokół pracy, a jak wiadomo wraz z pracą przychodzi nauka, ponieważ chcesz być na bieżąco. Nawet jeśli trudno jest pogodzić naukę i codzienne obowiązki…

  • Clean Your Computer

    Who knew that this month was Clean up your Computer month?  I looked at resources online relating to this and most of it was about things people had to do before storage was so cheap and all the files they were working on were actually on their own computer rather than in the cloud.  Still, there are…

  • Digital transformation – use your ears to listen, voice to influence and data to understand

    Since the beginning of the pandemic the business world has changed. For some companies the last two years have created good business opportunities and a stable income. In addition, 2020 and 2021 brought gigantic digital transformation to many businesses globally. Selling goods and shopping online is nothing unusual anymore, and virtual communication and collaboration are…

  • Moda, technologia, środowisko i konsument

    Wydarzenia ostatnich dni sprawiły, że zainspirowała mnie moda. Ale nie kncept wymiany garderoby, a koncept mody jako branży.    Prosta i praktyczna Przeglądając stare i pożółkłe kartki maminych zeszytów z wycinkami z popularnych magazynów mody z lat 70tych, przeniosłam się w czasie. Patrząc na zdjęcia prostych i jednocześnie eleganckich strojów, nie da się nie zauważyć…

  • Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup

    Clive's Cyber News

    In a slow news week as we start the New Year – the headline is that the UK has a new Information Commissioner – however as he held a similar office in New Zealand we probably have a second-hand Information Commissioner!

  • What makes us different from other I.T. support companies

    At Octagon we have evolved as the years have gone by, we started repairing PC’s. We moved on to supporting servers and then on to networks and so forth as our small business clients wanted the latest affordable technology.  Every company has different requirements, from just an email address to an all singing and dancing…

  • Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup

    Cyber News Christmas

    Only the highlights this week as I was on leave – but Pegasus and Log4j are still news. Have a look at xkcd.

  • Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup

    Cyber News Christmas

    Log4j is still out there and must not be ignored – so I have highlighted the NCSC advice and added a link to all the Log4j articles I have posted. Log4j – Smart Thinking Solutions There will be cyber news updates on Smart Thinking throughout the holidays and a round-up here on New Year’s Eve.…

  • Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup

    Clive's Cyber News

    The news is a little late this week as I have been on leave. Just a reminder that there will be Cyber Security News on Smart Thinking all over the holiday period – we’ll keep an eye out for those threats that could impact you. There will also be the regular Octagon round-up on Christmas…

  • Fashion, technology, environment and consumer

    Recently, I have been inspired by fashion. But not just by the concept of wardrobe replacement, but rather by fashion as an industry. Simple and practical Looking through the old and yellowed pages of my mum’s notebooks holding a collection of photos gathered from popular fashion magazines of the 70s, I literally moved back in…

  • Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup

    Clive's Cyber News

    A real mixed bag of things in my news this week. Among the posts we have some research from Microsoft about IoT, attacks on the software/code supply chain, cyber criminals threatened and even a cyber criminal caught. The second Reith Lecture also features this week and there is a conspiracy theory to go with that…