On Wednesday 9th of May a hacking group accidently revealed that a 1.2 terabyte batch of data which contained 26 Million logon passwords 1.1 million unique email addresses and over a million images were up for sale across the dark…
Organisations around the world have had a backdoor planted by Russian sponsored hackers Cozy Bear. Around 18,000 organisations downloaded infected builds of network management tool SolarWinds Orion between March and June of this year. It is believed the backdoor was…
I'm sure many will agree with me when I say "I NEED a haircut now", unfortunately a lot of the barbers aren't geared up for the changes they're going to have to make to implement an appointment based service. I…
Wow, what a week this has been. We were already seeing a ramp up in remote access requests, but this week has been crazy. Couple that with extra laptop and workstation deployments to send home we've been the busiest we've…
Microsoft have always been great with the amount they give away to charities with various licensing. But up until now you couldn't get a copy of the Office desktop applications for free, the best you could get was via Charity…
IASME will be taking over full responsibility for Cyber Essentials from April 1st 2020. Alongside this there will be some changes around how Cyber Essentials operates: a new streamlined certification process the introduction of a minimum criteria for Certification Bodies…
Please be aware there is an ongoing chain of phishing attacks spreading through Jersey Businesses. These e-mails are using the accounts they compromise to spread onto new targets. Therefore e-mails will come from legitimate email addresses and will likely be…
Cisco is paying out $8.6 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit regarding claims they knowingly sold vulnerable video surveillance systems with major security flaws to US government agencies. Whistleblower James Glenn claims he reported the critical vulnerability to Cisco in 2008…
How about a fun song on workplace security to round off the week! Video created by the CPNI: https://www.cpni.gov.uk/
We’ve recently run into an issue where, following Windows Updates and a reboot, 2016 Hyper-V servers are unable to connect to the vmms service and don’t display any VMs in the Hyper-V console. If Hyper-V is in this state following…