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Posted on 29 February 202429 February 2024

You have been warned!

It looks like patches and updates are the theme of this week and here is a story that includes a Robin Hood style hacker. White hat hackers are people who work like hackers, but rather than exploit any vulnerabilities they find, they report them to vendors – sometimes for a …

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Posted on 27 February 202428 February 2024

Do not forget your hardware

We started the week with a look at patches and updates but how many of you also keep up with updating firmware on the hardware you own? I have a Dell laptop and I have paid for an extended warranty and I am very cyber security conscious, so I have …

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Posted on 26 February 202428 February 2024

Let’s start the week with patches and updates

patches and updates

I am always using the above image as it reinforces the message that for good cyber security you need to keep up with the patches and updates for both software and hardware. Our team use a variety of sources to keep up with this job of which the US government’s …

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Posted on 14 February 202414 February 2024

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – February 2024

patches and updates

Yesterday was the second Tuesday of the month that means our support team have been reviewing our client monitoring reports and the SOC to check that the Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates have been completed. They will keep an eye on the reports all day to check there are no issues …

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Posted on 29 January 202431 January 2024

Updates and Patches

The US government Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is one of our go-to information sources for cyber security information. Whilst I have been away my team have been keeping up with the news there, but I have not! Here is a round-up of their latest alerts: VMware Releases Security …

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