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 …
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 …
Phishing Attacks – It is in the numbers. (pt 6)
I think we have established two key points in previous articles in this Back-to-Basics, Email Phishing Primer: 1 – Threat actors’ primary motivation for sending out phishing emails is financial. 2 – One of the best tactics any organisation can use to defend against phishing attacks is cyber security awareness …
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What happens when a third party you rely has cyber issues?
In the case of a number of major London hospitals you start cancelling operations and appointments for patients and critical test results are delayed. Cyber-attack on London hospitals declared critical incident – BBC News Among those impacted because they work with Synnovis – a provider of pathology services – are: …
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