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 look at how the payroll function needs to adapt. When the GDPR came into force at the end of May, there was a general flurry…
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 well as being regularly backed-up. This week I suffered another hard drive failure. Fortunately it was on a laptop that was used almost entirely for…
I just had an email from [email protected], delivering an invoice for payment. It is a Word doc, but I have not yet opened it. It is obviously a scam of some sort – and one that has not be picked up by Google (I use Gmail and they catch a lot of spam and phishing messages).…
If you advertise your travels on social media, you may risk invalidating your insurance claims if your house is broken into.
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 to a network. Ad blocking software is readily available for those wanting to block adverts on a single computer, but for businesses working across a…
Main points from the Google Hacking Hangout (August 2015)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. Google have seen a 180% increase in hacking over the last year, and this is resulting in…
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 businesses many benefits. Every business is at risk for 4 main threats. These are the loss of data by third-party providers, unauthorised data access, threats…
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 advanced that Symantec are still unsure what it can and can’t do. It is thought to have been developed by a Western government. “In the…
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 it well) we hear of a major security problem with SSL. What is it all about? I just learned about the SSLv3 Support vulnerability from CloudFlare,…
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, he still had a very strong access, but the number claimed to be from 020 7097 6517, which is central London. Today I did not have…
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 then you should change your password, just in case. Most of the time rogue log in details are actually your own logins that have for…
I just received the following email with title “Review the document“: From: [email protected] Hi, You have received a document via Adobe Echosign. Sign in with your googlemail to review the document. Sign In Here. Thank you. Clicking the “Sign In Here” takes you to a page on anffaslonigo.it that I think is pretending to be a Google log…
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 at your bill here. In total, your bill for this month comes to £356,87. We’ll request this amount from your chosen account on, or just…
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 access wp-login.php. Errors look like this: [Wed Apr 23 09:51:39 2014] [error] [client 1.11.11.11] client denied by server configuration: /home/acountX/public_html/wp-login.php Blocking is easy, you just…
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 sure way to rocket my website to the top of all search engines, but strange all the same. The subject of the email was “A Week…