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Posted on 3 October 20243 October 2024

Password Rules

Not for you but for developers and programmers. I they do not set effective password parameters then it can be too easy for a user to take a shortcut to a poor password and poor cyber security. NIST Recommends Some Common-Sense Password Rules – Schneier on Security Your Takeaway If …

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Posted on 30 August 20245 September 2024

AI on Octagon’s Blog

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Martin and Ben have been the editors for this month’s Octagon Technology Newsletter and being geeks and generally interested in technology, they chose AI as their theme. Here are the AI posts we wrote for their newsletter: Copilot AI and the Phishing Email Careful with that A.I. Eugene ! / …

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Posted on 27 August 202429 August 2024

Cloud Computing Cyber Security

Here is an excellent article from The Conversation, by Amro Al-Said Ahmad, looking at the vulnerabilities of cloud computing and infrastructure. How we’re using ‘chaos engineering’ to make cloud computing less vulnerable to cyber attacks (theconversation.com) Your Takeaway Many times, when I am involved with an IT and Cyber Security …

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Posted on 20 August 202421 August 2024

The state of ransomware

I have written a lot about updates and patches recently – let’s get back to another old favourite – ransomware. No surprise it is still a growth market for threat actors. Read about it in Unit 42’s bi-annual report: Ransomware Review: First Half of 2024 (paloaltonetworks.com) Your takeaway Simple – …

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Posted on 26 July 202430 July 2024

Because It’s Friday – Sorry

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I was going to avoid CrowdStrike in today’s “Because It’s Friday”, which is why I ran this on Wednesday: In the aftermath of CrowdStrike… Sharks! But then Randall Munroe got involved on xkcd: xkcd: CrowdStrike If you want something that is not “Global IT Outage” related, this is what this …

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