Tips for keeping your password safe and secure We have loads of website we log in to these days – I have somewhere around a thousand. That’s a thousand possible places that hackers could get my password from and try to use elsewhere. So I have to keep my passwords safe and secure. Why password […]
Google Chrome to mark HTTP websites as “not secure” Google have recently announced that all HTTP websites will be marked as insecure by Google Chrome. Google have been pushing HTTPS (Secure HTTP) for a few years now by, amongst other things, penalising HTTP websites in search results. They are now taking this one step further […]
How to avoid ransomware attacks: 10 tips Ransomware attacks – an especially sinister type of malware often delivered through spear-phishing emails that lock up valuable data assets and demand a ransom to release them – are a rapidly-growing security threat. We all remember what happened with the Wannacry attack on the NHS back in 2017. […]
It’s Not My Fault This Time Either! Two news items caught my eye today – Google breaking privacy laws (BBC article) and BT’s broadband network falling over again (PC Pro article). Google “inadvertently” collected private data (including passwords) from unsecured WiFi connections. At least you know they’ve done it and are going to ditch the […]
Top Ten Reasons To Use Cloud Backup Ease of use – the simple set and forget features of the software mean that you simply choose what you want backed up and when. On demand or on a set schedule your data is automatically sent to our two data centres Cost – full data protection for […]
Cleaning up your computer In early December last year, I was contacted by one of my clients. I’ll call him Bob, to protect the innocent. Bob’s anti-virus software was reporting that he had a Trojan on his computer. Sensibly, he had run a full scan of his system, but no viruses or Trojans had shown […]