10 Ways GDPR Affects Payroll
GDPR is Here – and is Being Felt Throughout the Business World The GDPR is now in effect and has an impact of every part of an organisation. Here, we …
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Keep Your Business Data Secure And Backed Up
What Would The Cost Of Data Loss Be To Your Business? Companies have a responsibility to keep their customer, employee and business data secure from physical or online damage as …
Read MoreLyn Whitehead Lancashire.pnn.police.uk Email Phishing / Virus / Hacking Threat
I just had an email from Lyn.Whitehead@lancashire.pnn.police.uk, delivering an invoice for payment. It is a Word doc, but I have not yet opened it. It is obviously a scam of some …
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The Dangers of Social Media: What Are You Risking if You Share Your Travels On Social?
If you advertise your travels on social media, you may risk invalidating your insurance claims if your house is broken into.
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Network Ad Blocking with the Raspberry Pi
Use the Raspberry Pi to Build a Network-Wide Ad Blocker While software is available to block adverts on your computer, the Raspberry Pi can block adverts on all devices connected …
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Hacking Prevention and Recovery
This week Google ran a Live Q&A on hacking prevention and recovery hangout, which talked specifically about website security. I watched the hangout this evening, here are the main points. …
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Protect Your Business with a Virtual Bunker
Dave Wilding, the Microsoft Small Business Specialist at Shadowfax, talks to us about cloud servers, virtual bunkers and data security. Also known as cloud data storage, a virtual bunker offers …
Read MoreRegin Malware / Spyware is Made in the West
This morning Symantec’s Sian John spoke on the Radio 4 Today Programme about a new piece of malware that is infecting computers. It is called Regin and it is so …
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POODLE SSL 3.0 Fallback Exploit
Just when we all thought that SSL / HTTPS was the solution to online security (OK, maybe a totally, overly simplistic view from somebody who admittedly does not really understand …
Read MoreCall from “Microsoft”: 020 7097 6517 – a London number!
The computer virus scammers are getting nearer! They used to only call from India but this morning I received a call from London. The caller was from the Indian sub-continent, …
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Who is logged in to your Facebook?
If you are worried that your Facebook account may have been compromised you can check to see if anybody else is logged in – and log them out – and …
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Beware the Adobe Echosign Phishing Scam
I just received the following email with title “Review the document“: From: Echosign@adobe.com Hi, You have received a document via Adobe Echosign. Sign in with your googlemail to review the …
Read MoreO2 Customers, be Careful – New Scam / Virus email
Just had an email pretending to be from O2 informing me of a large monthly bill. The email: Hi Your O2 bill for 11/06/14 is now ready. You can look …
Read MoreWordPress Users – Block Access with IP Restriction
Just looked at an error log for a site that has IP restriction in place for the /wp-admin directory and wp-login.php pages. In one hour there were 28 attempts to …
Read MoreA Week at IKEA – daily strange spam
I get a lot of spam, it comes with running websites I guess. Today was possibly the strangest. OK, no mention of spells to get an ex-girldfied back or a …
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