I was away on leave last week, hence the round-up is on Monday and not Friday. Some of the Articles on Smart Thinking were shorter this week, again because I was on holiday, but they are still important to you if you want to maintain awareness of the cyber security landscape. The advice to organisations […]
Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup – 4 July 2022 Read More »
Jack Welsch once said: “Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the bast people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It’s that simple.” I agree, it may be simple but only if we invest our time and effort in gathering new knowledge, sharing information and upgrading
There is no one theme that jumps out this week – except the Google chatbot “is it sentient” story is everywhere – see tomorrow’s weekend read -, but that is just a bit of fun – not cyber security. The week has been made up of a variety of cyber security stories every organisation should
Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup – 24 June 2022 Read More »
Imagine your good day at work: things go to the plan, all staff on board (no one called in sick), scheduled jobs are getting done and ticked off the list, no complaints from the clients, just good feedback all way round, email is working and so is other technology and so on. Just another great
Would you pay the ransom? Read More »
We will start with the positive news this week. Microsoft, included in it’s Patch Tuesday fixes for the Follina vulnerability. Let’s hope it is a fix that is effective? The Russia Ukraine conflict is still a cyber security risk we should all be aware of: The rest of the week has been a bit slow
Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup – 17 June 2022 Read More »
This really is a security and compliance article – not just a rant by an annoyed Microsoft Windows 11 user and Microsoft 365 Home and Microsoft 365 for Business subscriber. Of course all of this blog is my personal opinion. There are times when I really do think the coders at Microsoft are only let
Who broke OneDrive – own up Microsoft, we want a name! Read More »
On August 1st 2020 a gentleman known by the name of Benjamin Altpeter wrote a thesis. On one page tucked away inside was a description of an exploit within Microsoft office running on Windows. This issue was reported to Microsoft, but it is not yet clear why, after 22 months when it is rediscovered, it
FOLLINA – very basics you MUST know Read More »
The significant news this week is a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word, that Microsoft has not yet patched – although they have published advice about the issue: Microsoft guidance for Office zero-day vulnerability – Follina – Smart Thinking Solutions The malware is called Follina and it uses macros as part of it’s attack and this
Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup – 10 June 2022 Read More »
There were two an interesting stories this week about privacy. The first was about how much our of our personal data is being sold and how that impacts on our privacy, so we can see adverts targeted at us. Just how much and often is your data shared? UPDATED 19 May 2022 – Smart Thinking
Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup – 20 May 2022 Read More »
