An important area of PC ownership is ensuring that you carry out regular maintenance on your PC. Without it, you could soon find your PC slowing down. It’s a good idea to carry out a monthly maintenance on your PC, but this can sound a little intimidating. After all,...
Technology is crucial for businesses, so it’s a rare firm which isn’t looking to upgrade. However, do they always fully understand the costs of technology? It’s imperative to stay competitive and safe in modern business, so purchasing IT equipment is a regular process...
There are many problems you can experience with a PC, but you may be surprised to learn that many of these can be diagnosed by yourself. It’s always useful if you can diagnose the problem that your PC is having as it allows you to start working on a solution. And that...
We all expect hackers to use malicious code to access our sensitive data and networks, but the easiest way for them to gain access is actually through us. It’s easy to feel that your data and network is secure once you’ve armed yourself with firewalls and antivirus...
Some websites are seen as trusted, but malvertising is a new threat to the world of cyber security and may cause every website to be viewed with caution. Now, we’ve all been irritated by online ads whilst trying to enjoy our favorite websites, but, with the advent of...
We’re frequently bombarded with requests to remember and reset passwords, but this taxing memory drain is causing security fatigue and making us less safe. And this security fatigue is causing PC users to take shortcuts with their cyber security e.g. using the same...
Even the biggest firms are failing to combat cyber-attacks as a recent DDoS case has revealed; if the big firms are struggling, what does this mean for you? Well, what’s most interesting is that this distributed denial of service (DDoS) targeted some major players of...
Backdoors are a point of access which can be illegally installed to give hackers free and easy network access; they’re also very difficult to detect. Unfortunately, for all computer users, backdoor hacks are a form of cyber-attack which is on the rise. And what’s...
The latest evolution in hacking is here and it’s known as Cybercrime as a Service (CaaS) and it promises to create faster, more powerful hacks, but how? Well, many people have a need to carry out hacking operations, but don’t have the technical skills to design or...
We like to think that once a cyber-attack takes place that a solution will be found. However, malware is evolving and becoming harder and harder to stop. In Q1 2016, Kaspersky prevented just over 228 million malware attacks and this is a figure which has been...