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Posted on 28 November 202428 November 2024

Zero-day vulnerabilities – it is a real threat

Each month when I write about Microsoft Patch Tuesday or Apple updates, in the Further Reading section I include a link to my article explaining why the Zero-day threat is a real risk every organisation or individual faces when it comes to cyber security. Here is is again if you …

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Posted on 31 July 20241 August 2024

What’s in your email?

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This article started life in couple of ways. Over on CyberAwake I re-ran an article from summer 2022, looking at how some information, useful to a threat actor, could leak out of your organisation this summer, just because of the use of a simple setting in Outlook: The Out-Of-Office Email …

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Posted on 11 January 202412 January 2024

WordPress… again…

It is a while since I have highlighted the cyber security risk of using WordPress. As WordPress promotes, it is the most popular website and content management package in the world and it is very well supported with plugins to add that extra functionality you need. But being so popular …

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Posted on 21 December 202321 December 2023

Chrome gets updates

Google is always on the lookout for security issues Google Chrome and Chromium – many other browsers are based on this technology including Microsoft Edge so it is a rich target for threat actors if they can find a flaw to exploit. When those patches are issued you or your …

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Posted on 22 November 202323 November 2023

The Wednesday Bit this week

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One thing I learnt very quickly whilst studying and after graduation was that my degree in cyber security was only the tool to make me think about cyber security properly and unless I kept my personal study up to date the degree would soon become useless. That is why I …

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