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Posted on 10 January 20259 January 2025

Because It’s Friday – Amazing Parts 1 & 2

dinosaur

Part 1 This is only a short video but it is amazing what stories can be drawn from fossils if you know what you are looking at. Part 2 We all use the internet – you are reading this, so the statement is true. Here is an article explaining how …

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Posted on 9 January 202510 January 2025

It is real, Windows 10 is going!

IBM Portable Computer

Our team over at Octagon Technology have been talking about this for over a year – Microsoft is really doing away with the cyber security support for Windows 10 this year. Here is another article explaining just what it will mean to your organisation if you use computers that are …

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Posted on 8 January 202530 January 2025

Get Organised – Cyber Security

Get Organised

It is a new year, so it is a good time for a new start. Over on Octagon’s blog this month the theme for the month is going to be “get organised” and I am going to start the 2025 Wednesday Bits on the same theme. Cyber Security and Get …

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Posted on 7 January 20259 January 2025

One last look at 2024

I had to link to this story by Lawrence Abrams over on BleepingComputer where he looks at the biggest cyber attacks of 2024. The biggest cybersecurity and cyberattack stories of 2024 I use BleepingComputer as trusted source of cyber security news and information. I covered a number of these stories …

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Posted on 6 January 20259 January 2025

Your online identity can be fingerprinted

I am going start 2025 off with a story about yours, mine and your organisation’s privacy online. Digital fingerprinting is the practice of collecting, often passively and without the user’s knowledge, information about their online browsing habits and devices they are using for internet access, so later these devices/users can …

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