Nothing is true, everything is a scam. While this is not terrible advice for the internet and life generally, in this case I am referring to electronic mail. Given the negligible cost of sending email and its ability to target millions, it is of course the perfect tool to trick, scam, steal and be downright […]
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Don’t bury your head in the sand! If you have anti-virus, a firewall on your router, and keep your passwords secret, you probably think you have cyber security covered, but I have bad news for you – you haven’t. Cyber Security as an Investment If you have bought anti-virus software you have invested in cyber
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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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Last week I attended a number of very interesting talks, ranging from those given at my party’s Spring Conference, via a talk from one of the professors at my university to a conference hosted by Computing magazine. A recurring theme seems to be the Digital Divide. What do I mean by the Digital Divide? Well,
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Diana and I have undertaken to write a cybersecurity blog on our news site, SmartThinking.Solutions every day in October. We both chose to start the project by writing about the cybersecurity threat posed by that ordinary business tool, we all use day in and day out – email. Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart. – Smart Thinking
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A Zero-Day cyber attack is one that happens in the gap between the hackers discovering a vulnerability and putting an exploit out in the wild and the software vendors developing a fix and getting it out to you. I have an article on Smart Thinking Solutions looking at this gap in all our security strategies.
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