“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 it for us.”  “We pay […]

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This article was previously published a part of “The Wednesday Bit” series on Smart Thinking Solutions. I was working at my desk the other day, thinking about stopping for lunch, when I got the following text message:  Now I was waiting for a delivery, I had ordered a camping kettle from AliExpress, but the last […]

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Martin and Ben are the Octagon Technology newsletter editors this month and they have chosen artificial intelligence (Copilot AI) as their theme. They asked me to write the first article. Copilot AI and Word I had thought to write about how I use Copilot in Microsoft Edge, to help me with parts of the articles […]

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Before I get into some of the cyber security fallout from the CrowdStrike global IT outage, you can read some of my thoughts on the incident here: The Wednesday Bit on Monday – CrowdStrike Global IT Outage In this article I look at just a couple of the cyber security implications of an IT issue […]

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Nothing is true, everything is a scam. While this is not terrible advice for the internet and life generally, in this case I am referring to electronic mail. Given the negligible cost of sending email and its ability to target millions, it is of course the perfect tool to trick, scam, steal and be downright […]

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Yesterday I wrote the opening chapter of this defence-in-depth article – I looked at how anti-virus protection can be side-stepped by threat actors and that staff cyber awareness training is needed to provide another layer to your defences. That was a human addition to your defence-in-depth and today we are going to look at more […]

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