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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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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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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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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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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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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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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