I’ve had some emails replying to my last two mailings from people saying they will never go online again! Joking, I know, but still very concerned. I don’t want to stop you surfing online. I just want to give you the knowledge to be aware and understand where there are risks and how to protect … Read more
Continuing my series of emails the cybersecurity threats iin 2025. Today, I will explore some of the new ways criminals are using AI in a bit more depth. The myriad of ways they are using AI are too many, and many too technical, for me to mention all here. I do think, however, that you … Read more
I thought it would be good to review the latest cyber security threats you need to look out for in 2025. Especially as we are getting more calls from customers affected recently. So, this is the first of a series of blogs that will hopefully help you protect yourself from cyber threats. Email Threats within … Read more
QR Code Phishing Is On The Rise And quishing is something you need to be careful about Quishing is now more of a problem, because the use of QR Codes to promote events and businesses is now very popular. QR codes are quick and easy to create, and give everyone with a Smartphone easy access … Read more
Recently we have had several customers contact us because they thought that their email accounts had been compromised. They thought that emails were being sent from their email address but it only ‘looked’ that way. As this type of email is increasingly common and causes a lot of concern, we thought we would do a … Read more
Microsoft have recently been moving the navigation bar in Outlook from the bottom of the Outlook program to the top left hand side. Lots of people don’t like this change. It’s really quick and easy to put it back. Step 1 Open Outlook and from the File menu select Options. Step 2 A new Outlook … Read more
Enabling multi-factor authentication vastly improves email security. As a result, Microsoft made a decision in 2021 to begin force enabling MFA this year. This is now being rolled out. “If you purchased your subscription or trial after October 21, 2019, and you’re prompted for MFA when you sign in, security defaults have been automatically enabled … Read more
We continue our series about things you can do to improve your IT security with Multi Factor Authentication. The challenge with email accounts is that they are online, so all anyone needs to do is get your email address and then they can use computers to be constantly testing passwords. If your password is insecure … Read more
I cannot think of any business we deal with that does not have at least one person in the company checking their emails using a smartphone. Often these devices belong to the employee, not the company. A level of trust that works fine for most – until someone has their phone (or a tablet) stolen. … Read more
We continue our series about things you can do to improve your IT security with patch managment. Criminals are constantly finding flaws in software and using this to deploy malicious software or access web site data or business networks. Whenever a flaw is found, the developer of the software will ‘patch’ it (update their software … Read more