This week I got to report on a cyber security incident that had implications for me as I have an online account with them: San Francisco 49ers hit by BlackByte ransomware A number of the articles this week highlight that all organisations must be taking positive steps to improve and then manage their cyber security. […]
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There are three milestones you should be aware of: in 2023 Openreach will stop selling and making products available for new supply by April 2025 they will focus on the migration of ‘orphaned’ end customers to new voice IP services in December 2025, all ISDN and WLR services and relevant products will be withdrawn and
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The UK Government’s Draft Online Safety Bill makes several headlines this week. The aim of this blog has always been to make people think about cyber security and privacy, so take this opportunity to read these articles and think about how this new law may help or hinder your privacy. Online Safety Bill articles (Smart
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CHANGE New Year means new goals. So, we come back to work in January and all we can think about is work, and with work comes learning, because we want to stay up-to-date. Even if it’s hard to balance learning and day-to-day roles, we push really hard! The pandemic has slowed down business a little,
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The first item I’d like to highlight this week, is a good news story. It is the success of the students from Girvan Academy, in the NCSC CyberFirst Girls Competition Scotland. The UK Government’s controversial draft Online Safety Bill has not been amended or dumped yet – with the The Internet Society now joining the
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We can help with all IT related problems and here is just an example of a small problem we resolved for one of our clients recently. Problem: Laptop wouldn’t boot up properly and gave a blank screen after login. Challenge: The user had just got home and the call came in at 17:40 as he
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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
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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
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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
