As 2024 draws to a close and we all start making plans for the holiday season, I thought it would be a good idea to publish an updated list of all my Back to Basics cyber security primers as this week’s Wednesday Bit. These are easy read short series designed …
Why you need to protect your organisation’s M365 credentials
We have had to deal with several incidents of Business Email Compromise (BEC), where for one reason or another someone has had their Microsoft credentials compromised and a threat actor has got inside their email. It is a serious problem because threat actors make a lot of money from it. …
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Help from the FBI… AI Scammers
The FBI has issued a Public Service Announcement offering advice on how to spot and react to AI scamming attacks – particularly when they are targeting financial fraud. FBI | Criminals Use Generative Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Financial Fraud Well worth a read – I am going to be including …
Zero-day vulnerabilities – it is a real threat
Each month when I write about Microsoft Patch Tuesday or Apple updates, in the Further Reading section I include a link to my article explaining why the Zero-day threat is a real risk every organisation or individual faces when it comes to cyber security. Here is is again if you …
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When paperwork is paperwork!
Last week I wrote about the paperwork associated with a well-run BYOD project and policy. Although I spoke about paperwork in reality – except for that copy on the office shelf – the paperwork is probably just a collection of M365 and PDF files, saved in the cloud. However, sometimes …