7 ways to improve your cybersecurity for 2022 Over the last year we have seen a massive increase in hacking attempts on micro, small and medium-sized businesses, and I’ve written quite a few blog posts about cybersecurity, many of which focus on social engineering. In this post, I will give seven tips on how you […]
How to avoid ransomware attacks: 10 tips Ransomware attacks – an especially sinister type of malware often delivered through spear-phishing emails that lock up valuable data assets and demand a ransom to release them – are a rapidly-growing security threat. We all remember what happened with the Wannacry attack on the NHS back in 2017. […]
mysqldump: unknown option ‘–no-beep’ Here’s a great gotcha! I’ve just upgraded my Windows test server to run MySQL Community edition 5.6.25 I have a script which runs daily to dump some of the database files from test website. The command used is MySQLDump and each dump is performed using a line of script something like […]
Single points of failure In any IT setup there are a number of potential “single points of failure”. By a single point of failure I mean if that one thing fails or goes wrong, everything stops working. In this article I’m going to look at several single points of failure and what you can do […]
It’s Not My Fault This Time Either! Two news items caught my eye today – Google breaking privacy laws (BBC article) and BT’s broadband network falling over again (PC Pro article). Google “inadvertently” collected private data (including passwords) from unsecured WiFi connections. At least you know they’ve done it and are going to ditch the […]
It’s Not My Fault! On Sunday night, a fire swept through a Japanese restaurant in Leicester. Stretches of Granby Street and Charles Street had to be blocked off and there was disruption to neighbouring businesses, many of which were unable to open on Monday (full story from Leicester Mercury and BBC). The interesting bit here […]
Securing data on your PC This morning I spoke at a 4networking meeting in Leicester about securing data on your PC. This post expands on that a bit and includes links to relevant websites to flesh it out a bit. Over recent years we’ve heard of people (mostly government!) leaving laptops on trains, in taxis […]