I am on leave – hence the round-up is a day late this week, although I posted cyber security stories all week and a post for Octagon, whilst sitting on the balcony on the sun. Of course you can keep up with the news daily by going direct to: Smart Thinking Solutions – Cybersecurity Starts […]
Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup – 16 July 2022 Read More »
The National Cyber Security Centre issued more advice this week in relationship to the Ukraine Russia conflict. The concern is for businesses and organisations having to sustain high levels of cyber security readiness as the conflict progresses – they offer advice on how to manage the situation and people, to keep peak performance. There is
Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup – 8 July 2022 Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Sorry it is a little late this week as I took the Bank Holiday off – well nearly there were some posts on Smart Thinking. Let’s start with the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, we got a four day weekend and it was an excuse for me to run some technology stories from 1952: Platinum Jubilee Technology
Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup – 3 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 »
I have published several posts this week talking about the lowering cost and skill sets needed to run a successful cyber attack – such as infecting your systems with ransomware. This is because the well resourced cyber criminal gangs are renting their malware and other resources to less well resourced gangs. Therefore adopting the model
Clive’s weekly Cyber Security roundup – 13 May 2022 Read More »
