Future Systems (Sussex)

18/06/2026

Bite-size news: Learn how a single scam email allowed attackers to steal and publish an Italian maritime port's data including contracts, employee records and sensitive safety and security details. Scroll down to the 'Europe' section of this blog. Then speak to us about how our Managed User Security services could have avoided all of that, from just £4.69/mth per user!

Google patches fifth Chrome zero-day of 2026 as ransomware disrupts schools, ports and manufacturing.

23/05/2026

Before you call the helpdesk next week about your work-from-home laptop crashing, freezing or just being weird, please consider whether it’s 30 degrees outside and you’ve left it next to a south-facing window for the last 8 hours 🥵🥵🥵😉.

09/05/2026

Happy to have donated our Saturday to Ousedale PTA. We spent the day upgrading and preparing this lovely batch of Dell laptops to be given to our local school to support its students. Thank you to our charity and small business clients, who decommission their laptops through us for socially responsible disposal. We added one of our own plus £150 of chargers to complete the donation. Now with a new lease of life, these older laptops can continue to be useful.

30/04/2026

Scam phone call alert:
We just received a scam phone call from “Sky”, claiming we were going to get up to 30% reduction because of all of the complaints they’ve had about high bills. Well that seemed a bit odd but I let them talk me through it because …..well, who doesn’t want cheaper bills, right? As it went on, the guy with an American accent calling from a “Brighton” phone number transferred me to the billing department in Asia. I gave them my email address, which they used to send me a GENUINE Sky email giving me a security code to set or reset a password. Not quite sure what they were aiming to achieve but, if we’d given them that code as they were requesting, they would have accessed our account, changed our password and locked us out of our account while they were completing their scam/fraud activity.
Bottom line: If it seems too good to be true, assume that it’s a scam!

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14/04/2026

Russian state-sponsored cyber criminals are at it again. If you have a TP-Link broadband router, check the list of affected models in this National Cyber Security Centre news article: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/apt28-exploit-routers-to-enable-dns-hijacking-operations?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-82e6VvNb53vmta2VGUhugidSSs8HxGnk3a7cmVAYPfKYt7jdj2I9DOeZO2XqQ6GWtVEG8GljnEvGD7fHbWNZWYUS0vo-8fNSTBhhi3jpPCF7GcF9E&_hsmi=133384152&utm_content=133384152&utm_source=hs_email. If your router is on the list, speak to us about updates or upgrading to a business-class Draytek router.

Russian cyber actor APT28 exploit vulnerable routers to hijack DNS, enabling adversary‑in‑the‑middle attacks and theft of passwords and authentication tokens.