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Keep It Simple… Encryption (pt. 3)

Encryption is the process of encoding information, converting it from plaintext into ciphertext, to protect it from unauthorised access. This process ensures that only those with the appropriate decryption key can access the original information, thereby maintaining confidentiality. Modern encryption techniques utilise complex algorithms and keys, making unauthorised decryption extremely difficult without the correct key. […]

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Mobile Phone Security – Three Simple Steps for Best Practice

Cyber Security / By Diana

Mobile phone security is something that can just be taken for granted. We all carry our mobile phones with us everywhere and do everything on them – but when it comes to using those phones for business, they often drop out of the company’s IT support. They shouldn’t – that’s why you come to us

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Just NO!

Cyber Security / By Clive

I have been researching the annual “Geek Father’s Day” blog (this was last year’s post) when I came across this “geeky” present. It is a nice product, with various sections and dividers to highlight and organise your passwords and other sensitive personally identifiable information (PII). It even has a loop for a pen and is

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√-1 8 Σ π – and went back for more!

Cyber Security / By Diana

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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YOUR CREDENTIALS – are they safe?

Cyber Security / By Martin

Are your social media, email and other accounts actually secure? Passwords these days need to be more complicated than in previous times

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How to Create a Strong Password

Cyber Security, General / By Ben

“So I can’t win then, can I? It sounds like you want my passwords to be 25 letters long and look like the cat danced on my keyboard. How on earth do I win?” You ( now frustrated!) Fear not, there is hope. Combine what you have learned and consider the following. Use many words

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Factors that impact on a password strength (Section 2)

Cyber Security, General / By Ben

Any password that is a word, is in the crackers dictionary, and all words of any length can be checked in pretty much the same amount of time when they use what is appropriately called a ‘Dictionary’ attack. This means that all those easy and interesting long words you know, can’t be safely used, at

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Factors that impact on a password strength (Section 1)

Cyber Security, General / By Ben

In our previous blog I introduced three factors that result in a password strength. Here are the first two I mentioned: Factor 1. Number of symbols Symbols here mean any character typically used or usable by the computer, for example numbers consist of ten symbols 0 to 9. Lower case letters a to z are

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Your password is bad, and you should feel bad – accessibility vs security

General / By Ben

Almost all of you will currently be using far too few passwords, most of which are weak. Passwords can be a pain to deal with, they always get in the way and slow you down, there are times when you mis-type one 4 times in a row and you may start to question your sanity.

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