For today’s Wednesday Bit, I want to rerun an article I first published in November last year. I was reminded about my article on encryption for two reasons… One of my current IT and Cyber Security Audits has highlighted an issue where very sensitive information is being shared in a …
Threat actors treat their crimes as a business
It is “old news” but threat actors are usually only in it for the money. Consequently to maximise their profits they turn to the tactics of legitimate businesses, with mission statements, support teams, easy terms and now rebranding! SEXi ransomware rebrands to APT INC, continues VMware ESXi attacks – BleepingComputer …
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When cyber security patching goes wrong!
Before I start this post let me make this very clear – you have to run the patches and updates for your systems as soon as they become available to keep your organisation secure. But sometime those updates can cause more problems – as in the case of some Windows …
Because It’s Friday – The paper is cheap but the ink is expensive
I know this looks like an IT post about the cost of inkjet ink verses everything else you have to pay for when printing a page – (DEC inserted) including the environmental cost, but it isn’t. How many printers do you need to print Wikipedia? For today’s “Because It’s Friday” …
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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, …