“J.A.R.V.I.S., make a note. Remind me not to wake up in the morning ever again.” If you feel like that when you start to think about Christmas shopping, then this is the blog post for you. Back for its regular Christmas slot is my list of presents for those geeks in your life, who when …

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Only the highlights this week as I was on leave - but Pegasus and Log4j are still news.

Have a look at xkcd.

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Log4j is still out there and must not be ignored – so I have highlighted the NCSC advice and added a link to all the Log4j articles I have posted. Log4j – Smart Thinking Solutions There will be cyber news updates on Smart Thinking throughout the holidays and a round-up here on New Year’s Eve. …

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Clive has written a piece on Smart Thinking Solutions (our specialist cybersecurity, governance and compliance site), full of advice for you if you are shopping online this Christmas or in the New Year Sale – which will probably start on Boxing Day!

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Although we all have time off over Christmas and the New Year – the nature of the work we carry out for clients means that we never really stop. Computers and IT infrastructure can have issues any time of the night or day and cyber security incidents are unpredictable. I used to go out and …

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With Christmas round the corner I have been spending time on various shopping sites, where Edge was constantly suggesting useless discount coupons to me. Worse then that, poor coding meant that the pop-up box suggesting coupons would often appear blank, just obscuring the web page I was wanting to read. How to disable Microsoft Edge …

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Before looking at this year’s list, why not play the Wheel of Christmas? So it is coming round to the Christmas holiday season so that means I get another opportunity to bring you my Geek’s Christmas Present List. If you have a geek in your life these suggestions hopefully will give you some ideas what …

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