You’ve probably heard a lot about cloud computing over the last couple of years, but what is it? And, more importantly, how can it benefit your business? We don’t want to bog you down in lengthy technical details, so we’ll just fill you in on the basics of cloud...
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Multifactor Authentication and Why You Need It
Many businesses are struggling to combat the increasing sophistication of hackers. However, the key to data security may lie in multifactor authentication. When firms such as Apple are struggling to reduce the threat of hacks which spell disaster for their employees,...
Email Phishing Scam Steals Snapchat Employees Data
Phishing scams are well known within technology circles, but this doesn’t mean those in the tech industry are immune as Snapchat discovered in February. Snapchat, for those of you who are not aware, is a social media app which allows users to send each other photos...
Samsung Deliver a Huge 16TB Solid State Drive
You can never have enough storage on your PCs, so that’s why Samsung has now released a 16TB solid state drive (SSD) which is being called the biggest ever. Samsung has decided that it’s time to solve all your storage issues with an integral SSD rather than investing...
Ransomware Locky Holds Your Data Hostage
Reports of a rise in ransomware trojans have seen further evidence in the form of ‘Locky’ which encrypts user data and demands payment to decrypt it. Gathering data content, be it blog articles or customer databases, is a time consuming affair, so there’s a real sense...
Are Apple Computers Immune to Viruses?
Compared to Windows PCs, Apple’s Mac computers have always been relatively virus free. However, a recent security attack has proved this is no longer true. March 2016 saw a significant attack on Mac users which involved hijacking the Transmission BitTorrent app in...
Can Intel’s New Processor Increase PC Sales?
In response to a decline in PC sales, Intel has unveiled their new processor – 6th gen Core vPro – which promises to transform business computing. PC sales fell by 10.6% during Q4 2015, so growth in the market appears to be slowing down. Naturally, this is the last...
T9000 Trojan Can Compromise Skype and PC Security
Aside from when video connections drop out, is a useful piece of software for businesses. However, the T9000 trojan is compromising Skype’s security. Skype is an amazingly innovative app which has helped make the world that little bit smaller and cost effective. The...
How Malicious Emails Caused Power Outages
Malware causes many security concerns, but, just recently, hackers have been targeting the Ukraine’s electric distributors to bring havoc to power supplies. Instead of merely targeting secure data such as financial and classified information, the authors behind the...
New Processors to Only Support Windows 10
Many people have resisted migrating from Windows 7 and 8.1 to Windows 10, but Microsoft has now announced that new processors will only run on Windows 10. You might have noticed, last summer, that windows were popping up on your PC encouraging you to switch to...