Tristan Martin, Author at TLMartin Ltd

Calendar invites from spammers: how they sneak past your filters and try to nick your Microsoft log-on

by Tristan Martin | Oct 30, 2025 | Big Ts Tit Bits, Cyber Security, Scams

TL;DR: Microsoft does not send subscription renewal calendar appointments. Don’t accept long, multi-day calendar invites about “renewals” or “service disruption.” Check the sender, if it’s not a Microsoft domain, it’s dodgy. Never open an attached HTML/webpage file...

When the Cloud Has a Cough: Why Amazon’s Four-Hour Nap Isn’t the End of the World

by Tristan Martin | Oct 20, 2025 | Big Ts Tit Bits

TL;DR: AWS went down for a few hours. The world panicked. Cloud outages are rare, and shorter, than local system failures. Running everything yourself would cost thousands more and be less reliable. Outages are a chance to do the tasks you’ve been avoiding. The real...

I Went to My First Classical Concert and Finally Understood IT Support

by Tristan Martin | Oct 12, 2025 | Big Ts Tit Bits

TL;DR: Classical music without context = confusing noise. IT systems without context = confusing dashboards. Knowing the story behind the system changes everything. At TLMartin Ltd, we act as your translator, turning IT noise into something meaningful, secure, and...

When Spam Slips the Net: Why You Still Get Dodgy Emails

by Tristan Martin | Oct 1, 2025 | Big Ts Tit Bits, Scams

We had a corker of a scam email land recently, supposedly from DocuSign, but actually coming from something called palmwineboys.com (I kid you not). It even had a lovely big red REVIEW DOCUMENTS button, linking off to a sketchy tracking service. Now, the knee-jerk...

The Practical Defence – Old-School IT Still Beats New-School AI

by Tristan Martin | Sep 29, 2025 | Big Ts Tit Bits, Cyber Security

TL;DR: AI threats are shiny, but the same boring IT basics still stop most of them. MFA, patching, backups, and monitoring beat even deepfakes and GhostGPT. Outsourced IT gives you enterprise defences without enterprise salaries. Prevention is cheaper than ransom, and...

Calendar invites from spammers: how they sneak past your filters and try to nick your Microsoft log-on

When the Cloud Has a Cough: Why Amazon’s Four-Hour Nap Isn’t the End of the World

I Went to My First Classical Concert and Finally Understood IT Support

When Spam Slips the Net: Why You Still Get Dodgy Emails

The Practical Defence – Old-School IT Still Beats New-School AI

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