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Of course I updated to iOS 15
I am not supposed to be blogging for Octagon this month – I have two ebooks to write one for Octagon on the cybersecurity bases you have to cover and one for Smart Thinking covering a ransomware plan – but as I am writing this over breakfast on Sunday neither Diana or Kamila can complain.…
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Why do I celebrate World Octopus Day?
Exactly 7 years ago I met my current employer (Diana Catton, CEO). In October 2014, jointly with David Grech at Amica HR, I was organising and running a business seminar to promote the Graduate Internship Scheme at the University of Lincoln. At the end of the event I approached Diana, who was one of the…
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Clive’s weekly cybersecurity round-up
This month Diana has a project to have a blog every day in supporting Cyber Security Awareness Month – #BeCyberAware.
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YOUR CREDENTIALS – are they safe?
Are your social media, email and other accounts actually secure? Passwords these days need to be more complicated than in previous times
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Windows 11 is here
Here is an email we have sent to our clients Hi, You may have heard that Windows 11 has now been released by Microsoft. It will be a replacement to Windows 10. Many of our clients have asked how it will affect them and I thought it would be a good idea to let you…
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Beam me up Scotty
Probably not the most original headline. I am a Star Trek person – I can remember watching Captain Kirk, Spock McCoy and the rest of the crew on the TV when I was child. When the first movie came out – 1979 – I went to London with a girlfriend to see it (probably) in…
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Email Friend and Foe! #BeCyberSmart
Diana and I have undertaken to write a cybersecurity blog on our news site, SmartThinking.Solutions every day in October. We both chose to start the project by writing about the cybersecurity threat posed by that ordinary business tool, we all use day in and day out – email. Do Your Part. #BeCyberSmart. – Smart Thinking…
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Advanced Threat Protection
Many of you will know Anti-Virus as a program that scans your hard drive for nasties, hopefully removes them and then occasionally pops up asking for money. This has been the typical experience for many users for decades with malicious programs playing cat and mouse with anti-virus in a battle of developers taking place inside…
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Running on fumes
Last year’s lockdowns made many businesses adapt to a remote working situation, and for many small and medium businesses this was quite simple. The high utilisation of Microsoft 365 Business and its cloud-based technology, designed around collaboration for multiple teams and external organisations, just meant not seeing our colleagues in person for many months. Some large organisations rapidly implemented sterile working conditions and…
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iOS 15 is very close but…
As the launch of Apple’s iOS 15 gets closer there is an issue with what originally looked like a very good idea. I have an article on Smart Thinking Solutions that any user of an iOS device or Apple’s iCloud should look at and think about. Apple will scan your images – but don’t worry!…
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There will always be a Zero-Day
A Zero-Day cyber attack is one that happens in the gap between the hackers discovering a vulnerability and putting an exploit out in the wild and the software vendors developing a fix and getting it out to you. I have an article on Smart Thinking Solutions looking at this gap in all our security strategies.…
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Bored and then Not Bored thanks to Modern Family and a Lost Connection
A look at why the new Apple iPhone 13 is only as good as the one from 2015 and why I am bored.
