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Overview of when our ‘worst case scenario’ actually happened after 12 years of smooth running. The Cornwallis Data Centre (CDC) houses most of the University’s … Read more

Many of us will shop online in search of great deals for Christmas. Unfortunately, cyber criminals will be active as well, creating fake shopping websites … Read more

Cloud services are readily available, but not all of them can be in scope for Cyber Essentials. Here’s a (very) brief explanation of why – … Read more

To save you the hassle when searching for the answer you seek, please be aware that, for reasons unknown, FIM’s (or MIM’s) SQL Server connector … Read more

Amazingly we have just detected a virus from 1992 on one of our computers. I am surprised that it is still in circulation and also … Read more

You may have seen the recent news stories about the DROWN vulnerability. This is just a quick note to let you know that as far … Read more

With the log file analysis program Splunk, we are now able to manage the log files produced by RPZ and respond more quickly to those … Read more

Qualys have recently released a security advisory for those using OpenSSH clients.  In essence using a vulnerable OpenSSH client can expose your private key to … Read more

Keeping track of software which is going EOL is a never ending and thankless task. Never ending, because all software has a lifespan, even though … Read more

Some notes on generating Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) with Subject Alternate Names (SANs) using JANET’s certificate service (https://certificates.ja.net/jcs/) CSR generation Create csr.dat as: [ req … Read more