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Posted on 12 April 202328 January 2025

It’s Tuesday and I think I have a computer virus…

Incident Response Training

…or is it ransomware? Today is the Tuesday after the Easter Bank Holiday weekend and we should have had our weekly staff meeting – I thought we should have incident response training. Because of work commitments, the CEO being in Spain and two of our team on leave and driving …

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Posted on 11 April 202311 April 2023

WordPress vulnerability

You always need to keep up with the cyber security of your WordPress website and any plug-ins you use. Here is another that needs checking: Massive Balada Injector campaign attacking WordPress sites since 2017 (bleepingcomputer.com) Now the question you need to ask yourself is who looks after my website, assuming …

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Posted on 5 April 20235 April 2023

Now think about the children… TikTok

TikTok has been in the news lately as governments and organisations around the world ban the app from official devices over security concerns and TikTok sharing information with the Chinese Government. Is TikTok a security risk? – Smart Thinking Solutions The cyber security risks of TikTok are complex, but organisations …

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Posted on 5 April 20235 April 2023

Will Robots Rule the World?

online meeting and training

Robots taking over? Clive is not sure but… A couple of weeks ago we were invited to speak to a Zoom meeting and this was basically a Question and Answer session. After reassuring the group that no question was too silly to ask, just that nobody had been brave enough …

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Posted on 4 April 20233 April 2023

Live Facial Recognition and Your Privacy

This is a very interesting article by Stephen Bonner, the Information Commissioner Ofiice’s Deputy Commissioner for Regulatory Supervision, discussing the ICO’s process in it’s decisions around Facewatch’s products that use live facial recognition (LFR). Blog: Balancing people’s privacy rights with the need to prevent crime | ICO It is worth …

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