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Posted on 16 July 20259 July 2025

More about your VPN

use a VPN when out of the office

This is a follow-on article to last week’s article Let’s Talk About Your VPN. You should read that article first, to save me having to explain what a VPN is and why I am talking about them now. VPN Issues I spent last week talking up the cyber security advantages of …

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Posted on 9 July 20259 July 2025

Let’s Talk About Your VPN

Pine Lake Resort portable office with a VPN

I am about to head off on holiday so now is a good time to rerun a two part series I wrote last year looking at VPNs and how they can defend your privacy whilst away on holiday using public WiFi points. A VPN – your own private internet If …

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Posted on 2 July 20257 July 2025

The CIA Triad – Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (pt. 1) 

CIA

As part of this weeks summer cyber security webinar about encryption, I touched on the idea of how it can support the confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA) of your information. In this article, we are going to expand on the CIA theme so you can see how encryption can help.  …

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Posted on 25 June 202518 June 2025

Hack Me If You Can – Think You’re Unhackable? Think Again. 

hacker at work

We’ve all heard it: “It won’t happen to me.” Usually said moments before it does happen to you – whether it’s locking your keys in the car, burning the toast, or falling victim to a phishing email from “Your CEO” asking for iTunes vouchers.  Let’s face it – in today’s …

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Posted on 18 June 202511 September 2025

Hack Me If You Can! What’s your excuse? 

hack me if you can

“I am too busy for cyber security.”  “It will never happen to me.”  “My organisation is too small for the hackers to bother with.”  “HMRC hacked for £42M because someone’s login was compromised.” FAKE NEWS!!!!  “Cyber security is hard – when I remember, I will get someone else to fix …

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