Government staff stop flashing and reading documents in public

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Category: Blog

Will you ever learn (Police chief Bob Quick steps down over terror blunder)?

Specialist training documents being read on a busy overground train.

File details stripped and blur applied to protect information and identities.

What was it? A specialist training manual on tactics and equipment.

IT security professional’s ten tips to keep your smartphone secure

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Category: Cyber Security (Personal)

A sizeable proportion of people are oblivious to the fact that smartphones can catch viruses.

With almost every adult and child in the UK owning a smartphone it is no surprise that attackers are targeting them with increasing enthusiasm.

Complexity of technology breeds more complex viruses. Five years ago, smartphones could just about make a call and browse a basic website. Today they are nearly as complex as a laptop or desktop.

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Ashley Madison hack and Cloud Flare: it is too late to beef up your security

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Category: Blog

Looking at ashleymadison.com name servers (DNS) in the last 1-2 days they have mysteriously switched to Cloud Flare (cloud WAF).

Ashley Madison "immediately engaged one of the world's top IT security teams", great though you should have done it before.

As normal a reactive approach not a proactive approach. We get hacked let's spend some cash!