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Emailing of tax returns, payslips etc – are we breaking the law?

by Kevin Salter on 17.05.2013 17:31 1 comment 226 views
Categories: Corporate, IT, Future IT, Secure IT, Value from IT, Office IT
Tags: email, security, encryption, portal
Are you sending tax returns via email? How about payslips… or accounts?  Do any of these documents have passwords? Are any of them encrypted? Perhaps you are using Dropbox or similar?

Are you complying with best practice....?
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Windows 8.1 goes Blue

by Leo Waldock on 10.05.2013 14:04 0 comments 135 views
Categories: Secure IT
Tags: microsoft, 8.1, windows 8, blue

Microsoft has a Windows 8.1 update (code name Blue) that is coming sooner than you might expect.

Microsoft launched Windows 8 in October 2012 and as far as it goes for this PC user there wasn't much to dislike, it was also tricky to see why I...

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Wiping a ship clean.

by Leo Waldock on 30.04.2013 20:10 1 comment 152 views
Categories: Secure IT
Tags: wiping data, south korea, north korea

That's a SHIP, just in case you skimmed the headline.

There's a lovely story on The Register about the sale by the Japanese government of a coast guard ship called the Yomiuri. The ship was sold indirectly to the North Koreans (aka the ...

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Software implementation - not all software is the same!

by Kevin Salter on 29.04.2013 13:20 1 comment 294 views
Categories: IT, Future IT, Secure IT, Value from IT, Office IT
Tags: software, dcoument management, paperless office

I spent three days last week in Scotland. Another few days off according to my staff! I wish!

Called in to help with a software implementation, this caused lots of head scratching and sleepless nights getting it to function in a usable manner.

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How can we help SMEs get the security basics right?

by Kirstin Gillon on 25.04.2013 15:05 0 comments 277 views
Categories: Secure IT
Tags: cyber
The PwC security breaches survey released earlier this week highlighted record levels of breaches in SMEs. On the same day the survey was published, George Quigley, the chair of the IT Faculty technical committee, presented to the PICTFOR parliament...
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Security breaches in SMEs reach record levels

by Kirstin Gillon on 24.04.2013 09:32 6 comments 862 views
Categories: Secure IT

I was at the launch of the 2013 PwC information security breach survey results yesterday and the overall message was pretty grim - more attacks, more breaches and more losses to businesses and UK plc. The survey results make particularly worrying re...

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Scam Ahoy

by Leo Waldock on 16.04.2013 17:10 2 comments 963 views
Categories: Secure IT
Tags: fraud, phone, scam, windows event viewer

I have recently had some minor excitement when I was phoned by some people attempting to defraud me.

Over the years I have received my fair share of phishing emails and offers of millions of pounds from generous Nigerians but this was my firs...

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Passwords!

by Kevin Salter on 12.04.2013 13:50 4 comments 1159 views
Categories: IT, Future IT, Secure IT, Value from IT, Office IT
Tags: passwords

A subject covered in a previous blog but resurrecting itself again this week on two occasions is the subject of passwords.  I assume that every single one of us comes up against this every single day. How can we overcome the "issues"?

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Disposing of IT equipment

by Kevin Salter on 07.04.2013 19:15 1 comment 792 views
Categories: Corporate, IT, Future IT, Secure IT, Value from IT, Office IT
Tags: it disposal, wiping drives

All IT equipment has a “useful” life – some a lot longer than others. But there comes a time when it no longer works or it is not cost effective to keep it in use. Changing technologies do however sometimes mean that the useful lif...

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Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership

by George Quigley on 28.03.2013 14:30 0 comments 466 views
Categories: Secure IT
Tags: cyber security threat information sharing partners
I attended the Ministerial launch of the Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership yesterday.  This is the end of the beginning of a project that started in 2011, when the Prime Minister met various stakeholders from Government and Industr...
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