The year in Ransomware:

2020 started out with a number of #Ransomware incidents that were occurring over the New Year period. Ransomware became a greater threat throughout the year, with increased demands by the criminals looking to extort from their victims. So I continue to hopefully offer advice and guidance to you, on how you can protect your business from these threats.

The end of Windows 7:

We also saw the end of support for Windows 7. So if you’re continuing to use a #Windows7 machine in your organisations, you really need to get off that platform and move on to the more recent Windows 10 or other operating systems.

The COVID-19 Pandemic:

And of course 2020 brought us the biggest news of all with the #COVID19 pandemic. I provided lots of advice and guidance on how you can get your staff working from home safely and securely. Protecting both themselves and your business from the threats that were out there.

The Zoom Bombing phenomenon:

And one of those threats of course was #ZoomBombing, which I dedicated an entire video to, on how you can protect yourself from that.

All the rest in the Review of 2020:

There’s lots of other little bits and nuggets of information which I thought were maybe interesting and useful. I hope you found them similarly and I hope to continue to provide these to you in 2021.

Happy Christmas:

So with that, I would just like to wish you and yours the very happiest of Christmases and I hope you have a safe and secure New Year.

So that’s it for this year. Let’s be careful out there and we’ll talk to you again next year.

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Zoom has data privacy issues

Zoom is a very popular videoconferencing platform, which has come into its own in this pandemic crisis. However I have significant data protection and data privacy concerns about the product, so I will never use it. I will never allow it to be installed on my machines.

Just yesterday Zoom has promised to address all the data protection and data privacy concerns that people have been raising. So I will wait until then before reassessing my position on Zoom.

Take these steps towards securing Zoom meetings

There is a phenomenon called “Zoom Bombing” where people have broken into or invaded Zoom meetings. They may say inappropriate things or share unwelcome content in the meeting. Therefore the default security settings of Zoom are not great.

However you may be required to use it by your employer or clients. So with that in mind please take the following tips to secure your Zoom meetings:

1. Set a password for each meeting.
2. Enable the “Waiting room”, so that the host must authorise each participant to be able to join the meeting.
3. Enable “Host only” screen sharing.
4. Disable the “Allow removed participant to rejoin” so that if you kick somebody out of the meeting, they’re not able to come back in again.
5. Disable “File transfer” or limit the types of files that can be transferred.
6. Don’t share your meeting link publicly in a public place. Anybody with the meeting link may be able to join
7. If the Zoom client asks for an update, let it update immediately.
8. Don’t take a screengrab of your meeting and post it publicly like Boris Johnson did

So that’s it for this week. Let’s be careful out there and we’ll talk to you again next week.

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