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Clive’s weekly cyber security round-up
The Cyber Security Awareness Month project– #BeCyberAware – finishes this Sunday but you can catch up on the series here: Click here for a summary of the project There are other articles covering simple things you have to get right like passwords to more complex issues like being able to measure your security readiness across…
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Regrets from 1983
Who remembers acoustic tape computer storage? A few weeks ago I wrote about the influence Sir Clive Sinclair had on my tech career: As part of that article I spoke about my first computer, a ZX81 kit. Now for the younger readers we did have floppy disks back then, floppy disks that bent, as opposed…
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Clive’s weekly cyber security round-up
This week’s theme is definitely privacy, with articles to make my readers think about privacy in their businesses to the issue of using biometrics in schools for students to pay for school meals. If you think privacy is something that is easy to define, have a look at this article before scrolling down: I have…
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Server Down
It’s a Sunday morning. I wake up and there is an email on my phone. It is from our Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) system. One of the servers we look after hasn’t communicated with the system for over 15 minutes. I get up, have a cup of tea then see if I can connect…
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Clive’s weekly cyber security round-up
Diana has a project running to have a blog every day in October supporting Cyber Security Awareness Month – #BeCyberAware.
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Efektywna współpraca zdalna – łut szczęścia czy dobra organizacja?
Ilość badań przeprowadzonych wokół koncepcji pracy w domu jest imponująca. Od 7 lat researchuje ten temat z uwagą i zainteresowaniem, i chociaż powszechnie uważa się, że pracownicy zdalni są bardziej produktywni niż ich koledzy pracujący w biurowcach, praca w domu może wiązać się z wyzwaniami i problemami, zwłaszcza kiedy mowa o współpracy większej liczby osób…
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Of course I updated to iOS 15
I am not supposed to be blogging for Octagon this month – I have two ebooks to write one for Octagon on the cybersecurity bases you have to cover and one for Smart Thinking covering a ransomware plan – but as I am writing this over breakfast on Sunday neither Diana or Kamila can complain.…
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Why do I celebrate World Octopus Day?
Exactly 7 years ago I met my current employer (Diana Catton, CEO). In October 2014, jointly with David Grech at Amica HR, I was organising and running a business seminar to promote the Graduate Internship Scheme at the University of Lincoln. At the end of the event I approached Diana, who was one of the…
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Clive’s weekly cybersecurity round-up
This month Diana has a project to have a blog every day in supporting Cyber Security Awareness Month – #BeCyberAware.
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YOUR CREDENTIALS – are they safe?
Are your social media, email and other accounts actually secure? Passwords these days need to be more complicated than in previous times
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Windows 11 is here
Here is an email we have sent to our clients Hi, You may have heard that Windows 11 has now been released by Microsoft. It will be a replacement to Windows 10. Many of our clients have asked how it will affect them and I thought it would be a good idea to let you…
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Beam me up Scotty
Probably not the most original headline. I am a Star Trek person – I can remember watching Captain Kirk, Spock McCoy and the rest of the crew on the TV when I was child. When the first movie came out – 1979 – I went to London with a girlfriend to see it (probably) in…
