Microsoft’s Outlook.com email service has been and is suffering a series of outages that is impacting it’s users. This is not a common service used by business, however we do have some clients, who have a need to use this type of service ( I am not sure if they …
Practice Drinking Coffee* better known as Planning and Preparation
Sorry, this is not a coffee* appreciation article it is an article about planning and preparation for an incident. Planning and Preparation = Good Governance Businesses and organisations need a cyber security policy and a plan covering what they do to mitigate the risk of an incident and what they …
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National Cyber Security Centre warns of Iranian and Russian malicious activities
The attacks being warned about by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) do not impact huge numbers of us, as they are mainly targeted at journalists and politicians. But the NCSC are taking the opportunity to remind everyone that they need to have effective cyber security plans and tools to …
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When planning for a cyber incident – remember about outages
Cyber incidents that impact your organisation are not always malicious. A cleaner could pull the plug on your server or a member of staff may inadvertently switch a vital bit of your network off (I have seen t done, too many times) or a service that you rely on may …
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A ray of hope if you are hit with BanLian ransomware
If you do get infected with BanLian ransomware Avast may have a quicker answer for you, rather than using your ransomware resilient back-up – a free decryptor: Beating BanLian ransomware with decryption • The Register Obviously the are caveats, you have to be infected with the exact strain of ransomware …
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