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Whenever you enter a new password on a website, it is likely that your browser prompts you to “save this password” for next time. There are of course some great advantages to this. You don’t have to remember them, it speeds up the process of your next login, and depending on which browser you are […]

2021 was typified by numerous Covid-related challenges, including of course the continued need to offer home- and hybrid-working, which in many cases has exacerbated the challenge of maintaining good cybersecurity. This has led to an extensive list of published cybersecurity breaches for 2021, which may indicate a massive uptick in cybersecurity incidents, or more likely, […]

After a bumper 2021, filled with data breaches, ransomware, cybersecurity flaws, and massive incidents, but also leaps forward in cybersecurity training, defences, and awareness, we could only hope that 2022 would offer a promising start. Unfortunately, breach trends continue, led by dedicated hacking attacks, rife ransomware, and businesses and individuals who are still neglecting even […]

December saw 74 publicly known security incidents, which is slightly less than the previous month. These December incidents accounted for 219,310,808 breached records. Another Cyber Attack on T-Mobile   After suffering a cyber-attack in August 2021, T-Mobile has been rocked by another big data breach in December. This attack saw customers accounts being accessed, according […]

On 9 December, a new zero-day vulnerability was identified in Java, affecting a significant number of major operating systems including UniFi, Apple, Tesla, Twitter, and Minecraft among others. On the scale of vulnerability severity, this scores 10 out of 10, i.e., the worst vulnerability you can get. What is a zero-day vulnerability? In essence, a […]

There were 81 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents in November 2021 totalling 223,615,390 breached records. With only one month to go in the year the annual running total of compromised records is just shy of 5 billion. Labour Party hit by Cyber Attack Members of the Labour Party were involved in a cyber attack on […]

On 19 August 2021, Microsoft announced an update to their commercial pricing for Microsoft 365. This is the first substantive update to its pricing since Office 365 was released in June 2011, and is designed to reflect the innovation that Microsoft has made within the suite over the last ten years. To help meet the […]

In October 2021, there were 94 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 51,248,331 breached records. Most of these breached records have come from a single cyber-attack, where an attacker hacked into Argentina’s government ID database, with every citizen of the country thought to be affected: Argentina’s population data theft A hacker has breached the […]

Despite the fact that Windows Home is designed for use in domestic environments, we regularly bring on new clients who use it for their business. Historically, Microsoft has been pretty relaxed about these breaches of their user agreement, but while you can use it to operate commercially, should you? Typically, users have the Home edition of […]