Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
It comes round every month – make sure your team has updated. Here is a link to Lawrence Abrams’ excellent roundup of the updates and patches from Microsoft at Bleeping Computer. It includes details of the zero-day vulnerabilities patched: Microsoft November 2022 Patch Tuesday fixes 6 exploited zero-days, 68 flaws …
So, everyone knows what that means, for the users, slow internet connections as we all gather in those vital updates, for the administrators, checking what needs to be done and checking that it has happened – including checking that the users have not skipped the updates because they are too …
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Here is a security concern that you may not have thought of. The enhanced (not the basic one the products ship with) spell check functionality in Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome sends information back and forth between your machine and their servers but it appears this information can include personally …
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Before I start this post – remember you should have Windows updates set to automatic (we do make exceptions for some Windows servers) and you should be able to monitor the update status on all your organisation’s computers. You cannot check whether everyone has updated? Then do something about it …
Our team often get desperate calls from clients, who are expecting an urgent email which they know has been sent, but they have not received it. The support staff usually quickly check the anti-virus, advanced threat protection, the firewall or other barrier/filtering protection (depending on what the client has) to …
