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 …
In the aftermath of CrowdStrike… Sharks!
This could be “Because It’s Friday” on a Wednesday, it has been one of those weeks. The internet is awash with articles about the CrowdStrike Global IT Outage – we are of course contributing to that number: The Wednesday Bit on Monday – CrowdStrike Global IT Outage | Smart Thinking …
CrowdStrike – beware the threat actors…
Of course the hackers would jump onboard CrowdStrike’s problems:
The Wednesday Bit on Monday – CrowdStrike Global IT Outage
If you have avoided the papers, online news, social media, mainstream news and TV, and did not have to fly, you may have missed that CrowdStrike, Microsoft and world IT had a bad day last Friday. I did not write about the incident then as I wanted the 24hr news …
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Encryption
For today’s Wednesday Bit, I want to rerun an article I first published in November last year. I was reminded about my article on encryption for two reasons… One of my current IT and Cyber Security Audits has highlighted an issue where very sensitive information is being shared in a …