Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
The patches and fixes are out but Octagon’s support team is still getting enquiries about the Microsoft Follina flaw. Here is a blog post by Ben, one of the support team at Octagon, outlining what you need to know. And Smart Thinking’s article:
There is not much information on this issue, as the firm’s communications are jammed with customer complaints: Special delivery: Yodel latest victim of cyber ‘incident’ • The Register Yodel has acknowledged there is a problem on it’s web site, and is posting updates on social media. Any organisation can be …
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This post was first published on 20 June 2022 Update 22 June 2022 We have not had to wait for the next Patch Tuesday for the fix – Microsoft has issued an out-of-band patch for Windows: Windows emergency update fixes Microsoft 365 issues on Arm devices (bleepingcomputer.com) Original post There …
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Here is a non-technical article from our General Manager looking at the impact of ransomware on organisations. Who pays, how much time and money is lost, who goes bust and who has a plan in place to deal with it?
This is a ransomware encryption attack, that Octagon’s backup solution is designed to mitigate against. The attack exploits the Microsoft 365 versioning feature, when editing a file, saved in SharePoint or OneDrive. Once the threat actors gets into the cloud storage they can execute their attack and start encrypting your …
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