Pfizer up and win $90
Read More: Pfizer up and win $90$90 (at least) for completing a Pfizer survey…. amazing but how did they know I have just had my first Pfizer jab? It surely is not a coincidence, or is it? This is a classic Phishing attempt, using the knowledge that scammers have about us socially, in this case the biggest broadest brushiest brush that…
Data Protection as an afterthought
Read More: Data Protection as an afterthought8 Terabytes lost….. 14 Terabytes of data recovered from a data migration gone wrong….. that was called a deletion of data not a migration when I worked as a Sys admin or a “Career limiting move”. Considering that the parts of a data migration plan I would outline involve: 1. Assess what data needs to…
Employees vs Home owners
Read More: Employees vs Home ownersOr a look into the psychology I have written about this before and today I saw a question today on linkedin related (Thanks David) …….. But I ran out of words to post as a comment. I want to start by suggesting that often security officers and auditors do not think about the companies assets…
Teach your employees information security
Read More: Teach your employees information securityWhen it comes to securing an organisations digital assets there are several approaches to minimising the risk as there is no solving a moving target. One that is not given the priority is the most obvious and the largest source of risk to a business: people, that is you and me, we are idiots and…
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Privilege access Management
Read More: Privilege access ManagementPrivileged Access Management, cyber attacks often still operate primarily on the premise that a logged in user has privileged access to their workstation or Laptop, this aspect has never changed despite platform providers ‘improving’ their security models over time.
Partnering done right
Read More: Partnering done rightResellers are ambulance chasers! They came into the deal after I had already sold the product to the customer and wanted to make money from my hard work, I’m the vendor sale rep, I know what the customer needed and I sold it! I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve heard words…
The Trouble with SharePoint today
Read More: The Trouble with SharePoint todayThe history of SharePoint has brought the corporate world to its latest emergency in the IT data centre. Firstly, SharePoint sites proliferated because they could be run on a desktop with Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), SharePoint server released in 2001 through to SharePoint 2013/2016 and SharePoint Online (an optional component of Office 365) often without…
Safeworlds Patent Publication number WO1998057285 A1
Read More: Safeworlds Patent Publication number WO1998057285 A1Data processing system for integrated tracking and management of commerce related activities on a public access network WO 1998057285 A1 ABSTRACT A data processing system manages transaction-related information generated on a network of interconnected public or private access computers, including monitoring purchases and providing referral fee accounting based thereon. The integrated software package establishes a…
Safeworlds TV $.010 shares?
Read More: Safeworlds TV $.010 shares?Safeworlds TV and Alan Metcalfe After a hiatus from posting details about this scam, I have had recent information that corroborates my initial concerns around what Alan says he was trying to do. Therefore I have decided that I can not leave this any longer and I will post what I have found out recently.…
What Microsoft needs to do to Windows
Read More: What Microsoft needs to do to WindowsI’m a long time Windows user, I’ve been using it since Windows 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups), before that I came from an Amiga Intuition and Atari ST Gem UI background. During my growing up with technology I have used OS 8, OS 9 and OS X (all versions) and I fully embraced Windows 7 and…
