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Posted on 15 August 202514 August 2025

Because It’s Friday – Jim Lovell

Jim Lovell

Among Jim Lovell’s claims to fame, is that he was the commander of the Apollo 13 mission. “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” After a catastrophic explosion, whilst routinely stirring the cryogenic tanks, the world watched as Jim Lovell, with Jack Swigert and Fred Haines took their stricken spacecraft around the moon and back …

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Posted on 14 August 202514 August 2025

How you treat your stakeholders is important…

insider threat

Marks & Spencer and the Co-op have made cyber security headlines over the past months with the attacks on their infrastructure: Marks & Spencer Cyber Attack UK Retail Cyber-attacks Phishing Attacks But the attack is not the whole story when it comes to an organisation dealing with an incident – …

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Posted on 13 August 202513 August 2025

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – August 2025

patches and updates

Yesterday was the second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patch Tuesday. The day the cyber security world thinks about Microsoft patches and vulnerabilities. But remember other vendors also release cyber security and functionality updates and patches on or around the same time – check those as well. Our support team has …

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Posted on 13 August 20255 August 2025

What’s Wrong with MFA

MFA or multi-factor authentication has its issues

This is the second part of my Back-to-Basics MFA mini-series. Having spent last week’s article telling you how great Multi-factor Authentication is and how you and everyone in your organisation needs to use it for every service that offers it, today we are going to look at one of the …

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Posted on 11 August 202512 August 2025

Cyber Security Patching is Essential

hardware and VPNs

This is far too many unpatched and vulnerable servers. Over 29,000 Exchange servers unpatched against high-severity flaw – BleepingComputer Computer Your Takeaway You might not have an Exchange server but managing and ensure all the cyber security patches needed to keep your organisation protected is a task that should not …

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