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
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
We continue our series about things you can do to improve your IT security. In large companies, one of the first things IT departments do to improve security is to remove administrator rights for most users. This restricts the programs that can be installed and the changes that can be made. For this reason … Read more
We are continuing our series to help you improve your IT security. The most valuable item for both home and business is your data. So securing it is important and one good way to do this is to encrypt it. In the simplest of terms this means coding your data so that if your computer … Read more
More and more of our customers are asking us to help them improve their IT Security. For a number of reasons: To secure their data. To protect themselves from malicious attacks. Because they need to fulfil security requirements before a customer will work with them. Because they want to obtain Cyber Essentials Certification. So in … Read more
How do you protect yourself from ransomware? The first thing you need to do is know your enemy. So, let’s start by looking at just one type of ransomware that has recently made the headlines – DarkSide. (There are other ransomware services that may differ slightly). DarkSide was the ransomware used to compromise the Colonial … Read more