This article was first posted on 16 March 2022 Here is some good cyber security advice from the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding increased cyber threat activity from the Russia Ukraine conflict. “PrintNightmare” is an escalation of an MFA …
Increase today in attack attempts against WordPress sites
With the rapidly changing political situation around the world organisations have a responsibility to make sure their cyber security house is in order. Ukraine-Russia invasion: Russia launches attack on Ukraine from several fronts – BBC News This applies to all the systems and software you use – check now. WordPress …
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Google’s Threat Horizon Report
Google’s security team have released a report outlining the active threats they have detected against their services. It includes a number of recommendations to help their users improve their security. Here is the blog: Coin mining, ransomware, APTs target cloud: GCAT report | Google Cloud Blog Here is the full …
Is your password on this list? – #BeCyberSmart
Yesterday I attended a webinar in advanced security settings for Microsoft 365 which was interesting in a nerdy way. As ever with these types of webinars it has raised questions within our organisation to look at how we administer the security solutions for our clients – and we made some …
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Make sure everyone knows how Multi-factor authentication works
Part of how we, at Smart Thinking, help clients towards secure compliant systems is that we understand that this can only be achieved if everyone from the top down in an organisation understands how their parts in the jigsaw of cybersecurity works. This excerpt, from a longer article by Roger …
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