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Posted on 11 September 202311 September 2023

Take care with unsolicited Teams files

A series of phishing attacks are being run using infected .zip files distributed via Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams phishing attack pushes DarkGate malware (bleepingcomputer.com) The zip file says it is a vacation schedule – but it is not really. A quick look at the article will show you how convincing …

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Posted on 8 September 20238 September 2023

Critical Apple Patches available

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Apple has issued Out-of-Band patches for a number of its products to address two zero-day vulnerabilities that are currently being exploited. About the security content of iOS 16.6.1 and iPadOS 16.6.1 – Apple Patches are available for, iPhone 8 and later, iPads and iPad Pros, Macs running Ventura and Apple …

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Posted on 7 September 20237 September 2023

Android Updates

Many organisations use Android devices and many of those are owned by their staff and are being used as “BYOD” devices. You need to have a policy about the ones that hold your company’s information. Android is probably the most attacked OS after Microsoft (see article here) so you need …

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Posted on 4 September 20233 September 2023

Business data breaches leak customer data

If you collect any data – especially customer data containing personal or financial information – you need to keep it secure. Whether it is in house, on the cloud or on a web server, in storage or transit, is it time you carried out some due diligence to check things …

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Posted on 24 August 202324 August 2023

Google Workspace cyber security improvements

I talk a lot about Microsoft 365 here – let’s face it the business world is a Microsoft world – but other office software vendors exist and we also support a number of clients with those. Including Google Workspace. Google has announced a range of cyber security improvements to Google …

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