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Checklist – are you protected against Ransomware?
It seems that a day does not go by without a news story of an organisation getting infected by ransomware and losing control of their information and business. Gang behind huge cyber-attack demands $70m in Bitcoin – BBC News TechLinked – Ransomware – probably the largest attack yet The businesses that make the news are…
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This Story Just Won’t Go Away…
Back in December 2020 I wrote a blog where I asked “Where is my flying car” and then a few days later I wrote a sequel as there was an announcement of a flying car for sale. Here are the links to those articles: Where’s my flying car? – Octagon Technology Where’s my flying car? The Sequel – Octagon…
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Selling Security
I have had an advert for WhatsAPP fed to me a number of times this week by Facebook on YouTube. This blog is how these adverts are misleading the public. I am going to make an assumption here that Facebook have technical people probably as capable as I am and that someone who understands how things plug in gets a look in before “Marketing” (here…
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Working with Microsoft and Security
Over the last couple of weeks I have been working with Microsoft through one of their security articles. As part of an investigation we needed something that could identify if malicious rules or forms could have been inserted into an organisation. For instance, if an email account gets hacked and your details are…
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Have a friend looking over your shoulder
Cyber threats are on the rise and the best strategy for combating them is adopting automation and monitoring. All our support clients’ devices are monitored 24/7 using a piece of software that can monitor almost every aspect of a device. This is not just limited to computers and servers, it will monitor and maintain network devices such as…
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Do you need a gift for a “Geek” Dad?
Well it is that time of year again, when I email my blog to my children before sending it to Kamila to be published. Father’s Day is Sunday 20 June and here are a few ideas for presents for your Geek Dad. No affiliate links here and in no particular order. Buy him a computer! Not a Windows or Apple machine but a…
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You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks!
It is fully fifty years since I used my first computer. It was a terminal to a mainframe, and that is the kind of computing I was to access until the day I had a PC plonked on my desk when I was working for Ford of Europe. I have used PCs and laptops ever…
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Risky business
You can’t create a security strategy without considering RISK. Your business most likely takes in a lot of information from a lot of different places, even if it isn’t that digitally involved. If you have employees and if you bill customers (a safe assumption!) you will keep some details about them. Every point of data entry and storage is a risk point. You can start to mitigate that risk by classifying…
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Plan B
Another day, another dollar and so it’s business as usual, or maybe not. Many companies are facing business continuity issues due to the current health related problems. Although the pandemic has been a serious issue to overcome, it is by no means the only threat to business. Business continuity management is about ensuring a swift…
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Let’s Get This Straight
If you own and use a computing device, either for work or in your personal life, then it is vulnerable to malicious misuse by unknown third parties. Please note I used the term, “computing device”. This will obviously include a computer running Microsoft Windows, probably one of the most targeted platforms by attackers. And why…
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Data: How Much Do You Have?
Today data storage is cheap. When I bought my first laptop in 1991, I splashed out and bought the 40 megabyte hard drive model (Computing History, 2021) – for a similar price to the 500 gigabyte SSD Laptop I bought last summer (Dell, 2020). Sitting here writing this blog on my iPhone, when I come…
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Passwords are only the first step
Today the threat to our digital security is high – with the pandemic causing a rush to online services the hackers know there are many prime targets out there putting their credit card details and other PII into computer systems (ICO, 2021) so it is worth their effort to see who is not taking steps…
