Yesterday was the second Tuesday of the month that means our support team have been reviewing our client monitoring reports and the SOC to check that the Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have been completed. Our team will keep an eye on the reports for the next day or two to check there …
Microsoft backs down…
Well it was pretty obvious that the outcry by cyber security and privacy experts around the world, against Microsoft’s proposal to include an automatic function to screenshot your computer every few seconds, to produce a searchable record of EVERYTHING you have done on your computer, was a bad idea. Don’t …
Follow a link in haste…
Having read Ben’s article on Phishing Email, this morning, before posting it to Smart Thinking as part of my Back-to-Basics Email Phishing Primer, I was reminded of a Bruce Schneier article and associated research paper I read last week – looking at how anyone can end up following a misleading …
Email Phishing Primer
We have a guest writer for the next part of the Email Phishing Primer. Ben one of the support team at Octagon Technology has written about this cyber security threat from his point of view as someone who must advise clients on this issue on a day-to-day basis. Part eight …
Going back in time…
This post is about one of my articles from 2023, which having just started on an IT and Cyber Security Audit for an organisation, I realised was relevant to the new project. All the board members and senior managers got a link to this article: Cyber Security The Layer Cake …
