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. Our team will keep an eye on the reports for the next day or two to check there …
A twenty year old VPN vulnerability
I am a great believer in VPNs for better cyber security, especially when away from your main base – here are a couple of my articles explaining why: Let’s Talk About Your VPN It’s holiday time again – dust off that VPN! VPNs even got a mention in my recent …
Anonymous?
I came across this article by Matt Burgess over on Wired UK, about being anonymous online, whilst I was doing some research for a client last week (yes, whilst on leave). I thought you should all read it as privacy is important: How to Be More Anonymous Online | WIRED …
More about your VPN
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 …
Let’s Talk About Your VPN
I am on holiday for the next two weeks – some cold weather walking in the Lake District and the Cairngorms, whilst Diana stays back in the warm office – so it must be time to discuss VPN use again. The photo above is the view whilst I write this …
Researchers just cannot leave things alone!
No sooner do I write an article telling you all about the cyber security benefits of using a VPN when you have doubts about an internet connection, than a team of academics come along with a paper showing that a VPN can be compromised. My article: It’s holiday time again …
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It’s holiday time again – dust off that VPN!
The first thing to say is that a VPN is for life – not just for the holidays. What’s a VPN? I could tell you about internet tunnels and cryptography here – I passed the secure networking test at Uni, but let’s keep it simple. It is a private, secure …
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