We’ve recently done a few tests with the great little TPLink Tapo 110 smart plug. This has a energy use function and can tell you what power your device uses, as well as switching it on/off timed power etc. PC energy usage is a hidden cost which can cause worry. While energy is never lost
We’ve seen a worrying rise in scammers ringing or emailing customers over the last year. I’d even go to say its the biggest rise in crime I’ve ever had experience of. The modern scams are generally the same whether the contact is by mail, email or most commonly now by phone. Old email or letter
We are too small to be a target! We have often heard this phrase, but while it might be true of a Foreign Government or Intelligence agency, it really is not true of the average cyber attack nowadays. Criminals are using automatic systems to attack IP addresses, if you are connected to the internet you
If you have not heard already, there’s some bad news for the IT industry as a whole. The way modern processors (the brain of the machine) are optimised means they are vulnerable to carefully constructed attacks. These attacks potentially can steal data from other processes running on your machine (effectively eavesdropping on other stuff on
Just had a couple of co-incidences last 2 weeks which made me think. First of which, I was talking to a potential customer about how backup was essential and the risks of ransomware and the next week the company’s secretary in-inadvertently clicked the wrong link and infected her machine, encrypting its contents. Luckily this didn’t
If you have been reading our website or visited our shop you will see we list prices for our support packages, have fixed prices for servicing machines you drop in to us and generally are upfront with pricing in general. Now I’ll be brutally honest, this probably makes us less money. A business structure that
One of the best ways you can up the security of a system is not running a day to day account as an administrator. Admins have rights to change the system and install programs. These rights can be passed on to applications that run from the internet allowing things to install in the background. This
Fraud and ransoming data is big money nowadays. If you get a call, email or web popup offering IT support or warning you about a problem be very suspicious. Of course if its from your regular IT provider and you are monitored by them you can probably relax a bit, but fraudsters are using this
Its a bane of every IT provider’s life when they hear the “friend up the road/ daughters boyfriend/ guy I know from the pub/etc. helped me try to fix my PC and now it’s even more broken.” Would the average person let someone who tinkers with their car, service their main source of transport? Would they
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