This article started life in couple of ways. Over on CyberAwake I re-ran an article from summer 2022, looking at how some information, useful to a threat actor, could leak out of your organisation this summer, just because of the use of a simple setting in Outlook: The Out-Of-Office Email …
Something from the archives
Whilst I was researching for my VPN article yesterday, I came across something I wrote back at the end of 2022 about hybrid worker cyber security. Cyber Security and Hybrid Working I am in the middle of an IT and Cyber Security Audit for a client and just last week, …
Does a VPN work?
Today I was going to talk about about the importance of monitoring your information storage and user accounts, but Mr Putin’s government changed my mind, as they have compelled Apple to remove VPN apps from the Russian App Store. (Gatlan, 2024) What is a VPN? It stands for Virtual Private …
A twenty year old VPN vulnerability
I am a great believer in VPNs for better cyber security, especially when away from your main base – here are a couple of my articles explaining why: Let’s Talk About Your VPN It’s holiday time again – dust off that VPN! VPNs even got a mention in my recent …
It looks like being a week of device security – these numbers should convince you to do something
I have written about the risks of Android apps – a lot, see the highlights of the issue here: Device Security (Pt. 2) | Smart Thinking Solutions However to reinforce the statement that apps downloaded from the Google Play Store can be a serious security risk on your organisation’s information, …