The Zero Day vulnerability The Zero Day threat is probably one of the biggest cyber security problems any small or medium sized organisation that is doing its own IT and security has to deal with. You rely on your anti-virus to snag any incoming threat to your organisation, but there is a gap between the […]
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The Russia Ukraine conflict is still the dominant cyber security this week – so I have led on a couple of the most important posts about that issue. However there are a lot of software and hardware vulnerabilities discussed this week – so check against your company’s cybersecurity model to see if they impact you.
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Last week I attended a number of very interesting talks, ranging from those given at my party’s Spring Conference, via a talk from one of the professors at my university to a conference hosted by Computing magazine. A recurring theme seems to be the Digital Divide. What do I mean by the Digital Divide? Well,
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I am still leading on the cyber security threat posed to our systems by the conflict in Ukraine – even though it is slower in coming than most analysts feared – although there are indications that the malicious software is starting to leak out across the internet. Making the advisory by the National Cyber Security
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Yes, it’s π Day again and time to make lots of nerdy maths jokes if you are into that kind of thing. Personally I find it causes me to make lots of irrational but perfectly rounded plans. I thought my email password was the last ten digits of π, and then I remembered that whilst
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The conflict between Ukraine and Russia has generated a lot of cyber security news and threats this week. As advised by the National Cyber Security Centre all organisations need to revisit and update as required all their cyber security provisions – we did, and where needed, especially on our internet facing assets, we made changes.
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I am going to start this week’s round-up with the latest cyber security advisory from the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – which you all should read. I made some changes to my Cyber Security Master Class this week, when this advisory came out, and took the students through each of the points that
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If you keep up with the cyber security news you can then make the decisions needed to protect your systems. Before the usual preamble I have to start by highlighting the increased cyber security threat to everyone, following the escalation of the Ukraine Russia conflict. We have published advice and reports this week both on
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With the rapidly changing political situation around the world organisations have a responsibility to make sure their cyber security house is in order. WordPress This morning we have noticed an increase in the number of malicious login attempts against WordPress websites. Why is WordPress a target? It is a target rich environment. Make sure you implement various
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