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
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
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
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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