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Posted on 7 February 20255 February 2025

Because It’s Friday – A stick and Valentine’s Day!

steel rule

Following on from the “Because It’s Friday” where Professor Hannah Fry explained how much paper you need to wrap the planet Earth, today, I thought you would like to hear her explain a stick… …and explaining that an electron has weight. How many zeros? Something Extra – Valentine’s Day Diana …

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Posted on 6 February 20255 February 2025

Google issues Android updates to fix zero-day exploits

Every vendor must do it – issue cyber security patches. For app vendors, if you use the app, you get the updates. For operating systems like Windows and the various flavours of Apple OS it is straight forward as the vendors have direct control of the OS and push regular …

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Posted on 5 February 20255 February 2025

Groundhog Day and Cyber Security

Groundhog Day is like teach password hygiene

When Diana is the editor of the monthly Octagon Technology newsletter she likes to have a theme for the month, last month it was “Get Organised” this month her theme is the “Special Days in February” and to start things off I got Groundhog Day and the task of relating …

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Posted on 4 February 20254 February 2025

Ransomware Gangs are obviously looking for the big fish!

The Indian company Tata is probably one of the big fish that threat actors were wishing to catch. Plenty of data, lots of worldwide customers and a bank account that can pay a reasonable ransom. Indian tech giant Tata Technologies hit by ransomware attack It appears from initial press releases …

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Posted on 3 February 20254 February 2025

Get Organised – A Primer

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This Back-to-Basics Primer originally started life as a theme for the Octagon Technology newsletter and evolved into a cyber security primer as it contained a range of useful articles relating to cyber security. Get Organised Month: Make a Vision Board Get Organised at Smart Thinking Solutions Organising your Files Get …

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