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Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup
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!
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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…
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Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup
Only the highlights this week as I was on leave – but Pegasus and Log4j are still news. Have a look at xkcd.
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Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup
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.…
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Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup
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…
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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…
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Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup
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…
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Online shopping advice over on Smart Thinking – make sure you stay safe
Clive has written a piece on Smart Thinking Solutions (our specialist cybersecurity, governance and compliance site), full of advice for you if you are shopping online this Christmas or in the New Year Sale – which will probably start on Boxing Day!
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Keep it secret, keep it safe!
Encryption is a huge part of the modern world, it exists in almost every corner of computing and many of the processes we rely on daily simply would not function without it. Put simply, it is a way of rendering information to be incomprehensible to all but the desired recipient(s). Data exists on a fundamental…
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We do cover Christmas and New Year IT and cyber security calls
Although we all have time off over Christmas and the New Year – the nature of the work we carry out for clients means that we never really stop. Computers and IT infrastructure can have issues any time of the night or day and cyber security incidents are unpredictable. I used to go out and…
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Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup
Highlights from this week are the Reith Lectures by Professor Stuart Russell, examining AI and it’s possible future impact on humanity. The first episode got me thinking and I am looking forward to the rest of the lectures. There are also several articles looking at the UK’s Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act (PSTI) and…
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Are you annoyed about shopping coupons in Edge? Then turn them off!
With Christmas round the corner I have been spending time on various shopping sites, where Edge was constantly suggesting useless discount coupons to me. Worse then that, poor coding meant that the pop-up box suggesting coupons would often appear blank, just obscuring the web page I was wanting to read. How to disable Microsoft Edge…
