Tom Beech, Author at Coffee Cup Solutions

Protecting Your Microsoft Outlook/365 from the Stealthy CVE-2023-23397

Blog-post, SecurityMarch 16, 20232KViews 0Likes 0Comments

A severe security flaw is currently plaguing the widely-used Microsoft Outlook/365 suite, necessitating immediate patching. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2023-23397 with a CVSS score of 9.8, enables remote and unauthorized attackers to compromise systems simply by sending a tailored email that snatches the recipient's credentials. Alarmingly, the victim isn't required to open the malicious email.…

What is a Password Manager and why do I need one?

Blog-post, SecurityNovember 4, 20221KViews 0Likes 0Comments

There’s no doubting that passwords are important but keeping track of them without re-using them is pretty much impossible without a little help. This is where a password manager comes in to play, now it won’t take a rocket scientist to tell you what a password manager does, but there’s usually a little more than…

Homeschooling Support

Blog-postJanuary 5, 2021964Views 0Likes 0Comments

Our business is providing IT support for businesses, our core business doesn't include any home devices support. However, lockdown brings a new set of challenges for our customers. Normally your support contract will be for your company assets (laptops, servers etc) but whilst we're in lockdown and you're all working from home trying to juggle…

CVE-2020-1350

Blog-postJuly 15, 2020844Views 0Likes 0Comments

It seems that 2020 can't go a couple of weeks without another disaster, but a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) was released to the world on the 14th July 2020, which could have drastic consequences. A Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, or CVE, is basically known vulnerabilities in software/hardware that can be exploited for malicious purposes. As…

COVID Secure

Blog-postMay 13, 2020732Views 0Likes 0Comments

Over the last 2 months we have been helping businesses of all sizes protect their employees and their businesses enabling them to continue to work safely and efficiency. Enabling businesses to innovate in enabling their workforce with dynamic COVID-Secure digital solutions such as: Delivering high definition access to physical and scalable virtual desktops optimised for seamless video…

Working from home – 2 weeks in

Blog-postApril 2, 2020608Views 0Likes 0Comments

So we’re in weird times, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen the word unprecedented written down before (well, unless you include all the sales emails every time someone releases a new piece of software). But in general people are just getting on with it. The same goes for us here at Coffee Cup Solutions, we…

Providing Support Through COVID-19

Blog-postMarch 13, 2020647Views 0Likes 0Comments

Just like a lot of you, we’ve had to put in precautions in light of COVID-19 to ensure our staff stay healthy but also that no matter what happens we continue to provide the high level of support from our support desks that you deserve and expect. Considering that, we’ve undertaken the following. Split our team…

Coronavirus Business Continuity and Work from home

Blog-postMarch 5, 2020724Views 0Likes 0Comments

You will undoubtedly have seen over recent weeks the reports regarding the outbreak of coronavirus in China and its subsequent spread to numerous other countries. The United Kingdom , so far , has confirmed 87* cases of the virus, also known as COVID-19, with the UK government sa y i ng it…

Introducing Citrix Managed Desktop

Blog-postOctober 17, 2019680Views 0Likes 0Comments

As you may or may not have seen Citrix recently announced that its much-anticipated cloud DaaS offering, Citrix Managed Desktop is now available! The GA announcement for Citrix Managed Desktop (CMD) means organisations now have a means of delivering Windows Apps and Desktops from Azure to any device in a quick and painless manner on simple…

Approved G-Cloud 11 supplier!

Blog-postJuly 4, 2019706Views 0Likes 0Comments

Building upon our growing reputation in the private sector we can now very proudly announce that Coffee Cup Solutions are an approved G-Cloud 11 Supplier! Who are Coffee Cup Solutions? As one of the UK’s fastest growing Cloud and Virtualisation service providers, Coffee Cup Solutions can now offer a range of public sector specific Cloud…

Can’t get into the office? Snow problem!

Blog-post, TechnologyFebruary 1, 2019748Views 0Likes 0Comments

I am certainly one of the fortunate ones! Unlike many of my friends, I wasn’t looking out the window this morning with the dread of having to venture out into the cold and deal with the inevitable travel chaos! My commute consisted of rolling out of bed, putting on my dressing gown, and turning on…

Time is running out for Windows 7 and Server 2008

Blog-postJanuary 10, 2019738Views 0Likes 0Comments

Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end…after January 14, 2020, Microsoft will no longer be supporting either Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 meaning they’ll no longer provide security updates or support for PCs running Windows 7 or Servers running Server 2008 R2. The countdown has started, how are you prepared? But you can keep the good times…

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Protecting Your Microsoft Outlook/365 from the Stealthy CVE-2023-23397

What is a Password Manager and why do I need one?

Homeschooling Support

CVE-2020-1350

COVID Secure

Working from home – 2 weeks in

Providing Support Through COVID-19

Coronavirus Business Continuity and Work from home

Introducing Citrix Managed Desktop

Approved G-Cloud 11 supplier!

Can’t get into the office? Snow problem!

Time is running out for Windows 7 and Server 2008

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