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 […]
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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
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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
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As the launch of Apple’s iOS 15 gets closer there is an issue with what originally looked like a very good idea. I have an article on Smart Thinking Solutions that any user of an iOS device or Apple’s iCloud should look at and think about. Apple will scan your images – but don’t worry!
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“Working from anywhere” can mean working somewhere really nice – the photo above is Lower Longbeak in Cornwall. Coffee, croissant, great view, sea air, email and proof reading a quote for the company on my smartphone. (https://www.clivecatton.co.uk/2020/11/06/photos-from-devon/) So England is back in lockdown and people are again reluctantly or enthusiastically working from home – but
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At the moment I am working on my Master’s degree dissertation which has a long and complicated title but essentially is about how small businesses use Microsoft 365. As part of the background work I have been looking at privacy and security and how the two relate, and how business understands them, and how decisions
2nd International Conference on Blockchain, Identity and Cryptography, Edinburgh Diana and I started Octagon Technology in the summer of 1995 at the same time that Microsoft was launching Windows 95. The company we created then is very different to the one we run today – for a start the name is different! We have always
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If you use the FaceBook owned service Instagram, to share your photographs, then you really need to read this article from the BBC to see what may happen to your photos in the future. BBC News – Instagram seeks right to sell access to photos to advertisers. Watch out for this quote in the article
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BBC – Newsbeat – Warning over scam that charges users to receive texts. This article is full of great advice for anyone with a mobile phone – I am going to discuss this with my teenage son tonight. On the subject of sharing personal information Cory Doctorow has a thought-provoking article in the Guardian that is worth
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