A Different Hacking Hat For Every Occasion

Before we start talking about all things hacker, let’s first play out a short scenario for you, and see if you recognise it:   “A 15-year-old boy sits behind a glowing blue monitor, typing furiously. The green text streams across his...

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Fraudsters Only Need These 3 Details To Steal Your Identity

How many times have you called an online help centre and been asked to go through ‘security’ before they will help you? Odds are almost every time. But what are these security questions? Often, they follow the same pattern...

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Brexit Worries – England’s Post EU Digital Strategy

As the inevitability of Brexit draws near, with a date set for our exit from the EU, concerns turn to how the UK will deal with this drastic change. In order to keep up with other countries out there,...

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Teaching Our Children Online Safety

In a bold move by the government, school children across the UK will be offered the chance to learn about IT on a whole new level, in the context of cyber security. Officials have said that they hope the...

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Denial Of Service Attacks And What They Mean For Your Business

Over the last few years, we have seen a significant rise in the number of cyber attacks targeting smaller or medium sized businesses. We believe this is because this size of business doesn’t have the same strong, resilient infrastructure...

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Essential Cyber Security Measures Your Business Needs For 2017

We talk a lot about cyber security – the act of protecting and strengthening your computers and internet based systems from unintended or unauthorized access, modifications robbery or all out obliteration. In particular, we try to remind smaller and...

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Getting Rid Of Malware

In our last post we talked about how you can spot a malware infection on your computer. But if one day you turn on your computer and discover it infected with malware, what do you do? It could be...

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How Can You Spot Malware On Your Computer?

Malware is one of those really annoying things that affects us all. If you ever use a computer, you will probably come up against malware at some time or another. The increasing number of internet users worldwide creates a...

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What Is Malware, And What Does It Do?

Whenever we talk about internet security and data protection, we tend to throw the term ‘malware’ around a lot. If you’ve ever read one of our previous blogs, like the one on Ransomware, you might be ahead of the...

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Beware The Amazon Fraudsters

And so it begins. Every year more and more people are buying their Christmas presents online, and with the success of events like Black Friday and Amazon's Cyber Monday, online shopping has never been more popular. And with online...

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