Internet Explorer Security Vulnerability Revealed

Following hard on the heels of the Heartbleed exploit, Microsoft has discovered a major flaw in the security of their browser, Internet Explorer.  According to a security advisory issued over the weekend, this vulnerability could be used by attackers to gain the same user rights as the current legitimate user. An investigation is underway, but…
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Maintaining Business IT Security

For many modern businesses, IT security is an issue of paramount importance. As customers, we hand over a vast range of personal data to banks, retailers, government bodies and service providers and place our trust in them to keep it secure. The recent Heartbleed issue has brought the subject of IT security to the fore…
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Business IT Support and What It Can Encompass

Business IT support immediately evokes images of computers needing maintenance, and indeed a good proportion of business IT support does conform to this ‘norm’. However the phrase ‘IT’ – the abbreviation of information technology – actually encompasses any device that is designed to store, retrieve, transmit and work with data of any description, and so…
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What Heartbleed Means For You

Anybody who has been reading IT news in the last couple of weeks will have heard about Heartbleed. Although it’s often been referred to as a “bug” or “virus”, it is actually a security exploit which was discovered in OpenSSL, a popular piece of software used to encrypt sensitive information. What does this mean for…
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