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What’s New Wednesday: August 2026 August 12, 2026 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support, What's New Wednesdays

Welcome to Patch Tuesday August 2026, this month Microsoft has released patches for 400 flaws including 1 actively exploited and 2 publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. It’s a good idea to restart your PC today, and we may restart some of your servers overnight this week if a patch requires it. NEW THIS WEDNESDAY Overall Microsoft patched: 176 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 11 Security Feature Bypass vulnerabilities 110 Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities 86 Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities…

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What’s New Wednesday: June 2026 June 10, 2026 – Posted in: Cyber Security, What's New Wednesdays

Welcome to Patch Tuesday June 2026, this month Microsoft has released patches for 200 flaws including 3 publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. This count doesn’t include flaws in Mariner, Copilot, Exchange Online and Graph that Microsoft released patches for earlier this month. It’s a good idea to restart your PC today, and we may restart some of your servers overnight this week if a patch requires it. NEW THIS WEDNESDAY Overall Microsoft patched: 65 Elevation of…

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Whats New Wednesday: January 2026 January 14, 2026 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support, What's New Wednesdays

Welcome to the first Patch Tuesday of 2026. Microsoft’s New Year offering included patches for 8 critical vulnerabilities, including 3 zero-day flaws. It’s a good idea to restart your PC today, and we may restart some of your servers overnight this week if a patch requires it. NEW THIS WEDNESDAY Overall Microsoft patched: 57 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 3 Security Feature Bypass vulnerabilities 22 Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities 22 Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities 2 Denial of…

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What’s New Wednesday: Patch Tuesday September 2025 September 10, 2025 – Posted in: IT Support, What's New Wednesdays

Welcome to Patch Tuesday September 2025, 81 flaws were patched including two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. It’s a good idea to restart your PC today, and we may restart some of your servers overnight this week if a patch requires it. NEW THIS WEDNESDAY Overall Microsoft patched: 41 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 2 Security Feature Bypass Vulnerabilities 22 Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities 16 Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities 3 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities 1 Spoofing Vulnerability There…

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CyberEssentials 101: The Final Takeaways & The Full White Paper July 17, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

This is the final article in our Cyber Essentials 101 series. We’ve covered the questions you need to answer and why they are important for your business. Attaining a Cyber Essentials certificate is a great way to make sure you’ve covered the basics of protecting your data and your business. Often the most difficult elements are less around the technical areas – if hardware needs replacing, whilst it costs to do so, the process is…

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CyberEssentials 101: Malware Protection June 6, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security

Malware, such as viruses, is generally used to steal or destroy information. It’s often delivered via phishing attacks – obtaining information by confidence trickery, or social network sites which can be mined for information useful to a hacker to provide a focussed attack on an organisation. Anti-malware solutions (including anti-virus) are available from commercial suppliers, some free, but usually as complete software and support packages. Malware is continually evolving, so it is important that the…

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CyberEssentials 101: Password-Based Authentication May 22, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

All accounts with access to company data must require the user to authenticate. Where this is done using a password the following protections should be used: Passwords are protected against brute-force password guessing. Technical controls are used to manage the quality of passwords. People are supported to choose unique passwords for their work accounts. There is an established process to change passwords promptly if the applicant knows or suspects the password or account has been…

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What’s New Wednesday: A Summary of May 2025’s Patch Tuesday May 14, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support, What's New Wednesdays

Welcome to Patch Tuesday May 2025. 72 flaws were patched including 6 critical and 2 zero-day vulnerabilities, both of which have been actively exploited. It’s a good idea to restart your PC today, and we may well restart some of your servers overnight this week if a patch requires it. NEW THIS WEDNESDAY Overall Microsoft patched: 17 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities 2 Security Feature Bypass Vulnerabilities 28 Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities 15 Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities…

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CyberEssentials 101: Administrative Accounts May 7, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

All users need to have unique accounts and should not be carrying out day-to-day tasks like browsing the internet, invoicing or dealing with e-mail whilst logged on as a user with administrator privileges. Admin accounts allow significant changes to the way your computer systems work, doing day to day work logged in as an admin opens the door for any mistaken clicks on malicious software or attachments to cause significantly more damage. It’s also important…

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Cyber Essentials 101: Device Locking March 21, 2025 – Posted in: Cyber Security, IT Support

This is the next article in our Cyber Essentials 101 series, if you haven’t yet read the first part covering why you should consider Cyber Essentials and how to answer the initial questions about your organisation you can find it here. Questions in this section apply to: servers, desktop computers, laptops, thin clients, tablets, mobile phones, and cloud based software services. A5.9 – When a device requires a user to be present, do you set…

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